In 1903, Henry M. Leland began selling a $750, single-cylinder, automobile under the name Cadillac. Later touted as the “Standard...
Sir William Lyons, founder of the Jaguar car company, knew, as domestic car production returned to the UK, after World...
1952 Lancia Aurelia B50Photo: Peter Collins On a rare sunny day in late spring, on empty roads in Wiltshire, this car was a complete delight. It handled well, was very comfortable, had plenty of interior space and went well enough. So it should have done, it’s a Lancia, derived from...
This is the story of two men, born 45 years apart, each completely obsessed with the automobile, and both hopelessly...
When the world got back to normal life, after World War II, there was so much pent up demand for...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism” that was sweeping across other forms of motorsport began to exert its influence at Le Mans. With increased money and prestige now flowing through professional racing, the caliber of teams...
After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing....
Two Citroën Traction Avants at the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, examples of fairly mild French styling of the Deco era....
Audi has recently reacquired an extremely rare Auto Union Silver Arrow racing car consisting largely of original parts. It is the Auto Union twin-supercharger Type D dating from 1939, one of the two legendary “Karassik cars.” Audi AG now owns three of the five Auto Union racing cars that can...
Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack....
The U.S. motorsports community as a whole, and the profession of motorsports journalism in particular, suffered a great loss on...
Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic Art Deco French. Those swoopy airfoil fenders reminiscent of custom coachbuilder Saoutchik’s Delahayes, as well as Ettore Bugatti’s creations of the era are the giveaway. Also, the almost cubist bright...
100 years ago, almost anyone could become a car manufacturer. The automobile—and the advance in technology to create it—was in...
Tim ParnellPhoto: Pete Austin It was my father, Reg Parnell, who first went to Donington Park in 1934. Living near...
Morgans were regularly used in England before World War II in Rallies, Trials and Speed Tests. This is a Morgan (a +4 perhaps) being driven by Mr. M.A.C. Simmonds at the Handling Test that was part of the Seventh Brooklands Rally on March 26, 1938. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION...
Historic aircraft and competition cars, classic road cars and military machines will converge on Bicester Heritage in Oxfordshire for the...
As you’ll read elsewhere in this issue, we sadly report that the elder statesman of American motorsport, John Fitch, has...
Then I live in Texas. That means I’m supposed to be a barbeque snob. It also means that when invited to a chargrill in one of the lesser 49 States I’m supposed to attend, be polite, act as if I like the grub and then immediately report my findings to...
The 1936 Bugatti Type 57G was also known as “The Tank” and it won Le Mans in 1939, just weeks...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
It’s rather ironic that both the birth of the “Pony Car” movement in the mid-1960s, and its eventual death in the early 1970s, would be brought about by the “economy car.” Perhaps even more interesting, and less well known, is the fact that the first car to officially enter this...
Photo: Steve Oom Photo: Steve Oom It would be interesting to ask any historic car enthusiast what picture enters their...
The Morgan Motor Company With no thoughts of cars in mind, I first visited Malvern in the high summer of...
Parnelli JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann This year marks the 50th anniversary of Parnelli Jones’ 1963 Indianapolis 500 victory. That win, from pole position, turned out to be his only one although at least three others slipped from his grasp through various misfortunes. In his rookie year of 1961, he was leading...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Motor Racing at Thruxton – in the 1980s By Bruce Grant-Braham The latest volume in publisher Veloce’s “Those were the days…” series, Motor Racing at Thruxton in the 1980s, takes the reader back three decades to the days when the former WWII air base regularly hosted rounds of the FIA...
De Palma, his riding mechanic alongside, guides his factory Vauxhall over the 37.631-km Circuit de Lyon during the 1914 French...
Paul McMorran The loss of John Crosslé at the end of August 2014 completes the passing of a remarkable generation...
Six (possibly seven) DB2 chassis were sent to Graber, in Switzerland, for custom convertible bodies that featured fixed front fenders and a separate bonnet, as opposed to the standard DB2’s forward-hinged front end. Photo: Kevin Kay Restorations After World War II, many of the world’s auto manufacturers returned to car production...