It took time for me to become enthusiastic about anything German. I have been hit by the blast of a...
After church one Sunday in 1957, a 13-year-old Philadelphia boy named Tom Pomeroy was playing with some of his friends,...
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...
Mecum’s Los Angeles 2018 collector-car auction, held this past weekend at the L.A. County Fairplex in Pomona, California, achieved $9...
In nature, there’s a phenomenon known as “convergent evolution” – the way different creatures in different places evolve the same...
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 Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria...
John Von Neumann is an important name in the history of the second half of the twentieth century. A Princeton professor, he was an eminent mathematician and physicist, instrumental in the development of computer science, a participant in the Manhattan Project to develop the atom bomb and a Nobel laureate....
Every year, Guinness World Records receive around 50,000 applications from aspiring record-breakers. It is a competitive field to be on, and...
As the years pile up, I find myself learning more about people I used to know than I ever appreciated...
In 1980, people laughed when they heard Audi was developing a four-wheel-drive rally car. Hadn’t Ford tried that with their Capri 10 years earlier and drawn a blank? But the detractors stopped laughing when an Audi Quattro won the 1981 Janner Rally in Austria by 20 minutes. And they were...
Barrett-Jackson’s 16th Annual Palm Beach Auction, set for April 12-15, at the South Florida Fairgrounds will offer one of the...
The first thing one might ask about this car is what is it? The simple answer is its a Thing....
A special exhibit, in Washington, D.C. from September 12 – 26, will feature two historically significant vehicles: September 12 – 19 Apollo 12 Astronaut Alan Bean’s 1969 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray September 20 – 26 1966 Volkswagen Deluxe Bus owned by Esau and Janie B. Jenkins Each will be a part...
The very first Porsche spanned the Second World War like a bridge over troubled waters, from peacetime to peacetime. It...
VW cars, campers and commercials will be the motoring stars of Beaulieu’s Simply VW on Saturday June 19th, as Vee Dub...
Mike Lawrence Australia has decided to demote FF1600 and install Formula 4 as its national starter series. Formula 4 gives each country the choice of approved chassis and engines, each one limited to 150 bhp, but everyone runs the same kit within the national series. One-spec formulae, I hate ’em....
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