Northern California’s Classic Sports and Racing Group will be hosting a Formula Vee Gathering during its 2017 Thunderhill Spring race...
As the years pile up, I find myself learning more about people I used to know than I ever appreciated...
The all-electric Volkswagen ID.R race car will perform daily runs at the 2020 Sonoma Speed Festival in an attempt to set a new track record at the 2.52-mile, 12-turn Sonoma Raceway road course in California. Scheduled for May 28-31, 2020, the second annual event will again feature racing cars competing...
Beaulieu, home of Great Britain’s National Motor Museum and its collection of more than 250 vehicles, has announced its full...
As a racecar driver, Jack McAfee needs no introduction. He was one of the greats of early sports car racing...
Volkswagen Camper—Six Decades of Success By Richard Copping Interest in—and sale prices of—early Volkswagen busses and campers hasskyrocketed in recent years. So it is perhaps no surprise that more thorough looks at these unusual collectibles are now appearing on the market. In this extensive work, author Copley examines the evolution...
Forty years after it was last sold new, the original Volkswagen Beetle can still be found on American roads, a...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International Formula. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, the British began to take a serious interest in the category, beginning the rivalry between British and Italian cars. The original FIA Formula Junior regulations...
The genesis for Volkswagen’s near-ubiquitous Transporter, or Microbus, was a combination of post-war necessity and the clever instincts of a...
This year’s Practical Classics Classic Car and Restoration Show, with Discovery, broke all records — record crowds, record number of...
Quintessential designs of the 20th century are all around us. These items are so familiar we often take their shape, color and ease of use for granted. Some of the best examples of design quintessence include the Coke bottle, the Monte Blanc fat black pen, the VW Beetle and the GE...
Every year, Guinness World Records receive around 50,000 applications from aspiring record-breakers. It is a competitive field to be on, and...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
I know a lot of people have opinions of Peter Gregg, but I would like to offer an alternative view to Hal Crocker’s recent two-part article, “Peter Perfect.” I first got to know Peter in 1970, then worked for him from 1972 to 1979 as President of Peter H. Gregg,...
As you’ll read in various sections of this month’s issue, the 2013 season got off to a surprisingly hot start...
The first thing one might ask about this car is what is it? The simple answer is its a Thing....
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made their very distinct contribution to the colorful playboy image that some aspects of motor racing projected before the Second World War and immediately after it. For the 1958 British Grand...
Crowds of car fans and fun seekers came to Chattanooga on Oct. 11 and 12 to be a part of...
In the history of racing there have been formulae that quickly become popular and continue to grow, while others are...
The record-breaking Volkswagen Transporter has celebrated its 70th birthday, making it the world’s longest production run for a commercial vehicle. The Transporter – also known as Bulli, Kombi, VW bus or microbus – first rolled off the Wolfsburg production line on March 8, 1950, and since then 13 million have...
1957 Climax-powered Jomar 1957 Climax-powered Jomar. Photo: Harold Pace You know the story. Start with a svelte English chassis, add...
If I asked you to pick a brand associated with high performance and motorsport, chances are good the name Volkswagen...
China’s third YanQi Island Concours d’Elegance, held in the Huairou District near Beijing, presented 38 top-level historic vehicles and 14 modern automobiles in one the top exhibitions of its kind in China. This year’s classic historic automobiles included: a 1957 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SS Prototipo (above, photo courtesy of YanQi...
The Volkswagen Beetle is an icon. Over the years, it has symbolized many different things to many different people, from...
For all the talk today of “level playing fields” and equal opportunities for all, it has to be understood that...
Amelia Concours tradition seems to require the inclusion of at least one special class each year that bucks conventional concours orthodoxy. Cars of the cowboys, advertising cars, hunting cars and the movie cars classes have all been popular, well represented and well received…even by concours’ purists. With that in mind,...
This Sunday, March 10th, The People’s Car will make its debut at one of themost prestigious collector-car events in the...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
This weekend the Netherlands will become the home of the VW T1, as Amersfoort – located just outside Amsterdam – is the venue for this year’s European “Barndoor Gathering”, a meet for early VW Bulli buses built from 1950 to 1955. Nowhere in the Netherlands is more appropriate for this...