Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic...
Renowned engineer and author Bill Milliken passed away in his sleep July 28 at the age of 101. Born in...
High-powered Italian automotive exotica has always had an attraction for a select number of prominent people of means. Today it’s the nouveau riche, the highly paid athletes, rock stars and entertainers who can be seen in the latest Lamborghini, Ferrari or Maserati, but in the immediate post-war years athletes weren’t...
De Palma, his riding mechanic alongside, guides his factory Vauxhall over the 37.631-km Circuit de Lyon during the 1914 French...
This is the story of two men, born 45 years apart, each completely obsessed with the automobile, and both hopelessly...
Cisitalia 202 was a ground-breaking post-war design that placed Pininfarina at the forefront of automotive design. The late 19th century was not a great time for the Farina family to be bringing up eleven children in rural Italy. The tenth was christened Battista, and with all these mouths to feed...
Then I live in Texas. That means I’m supposed to be a barbeque snob. It also means that when invited...
When the world got back to normal life, after World War II, there was so much pent up demand for...
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...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
Aficionados of the Riley marque, particularly devotees of the Riley Specials raced prior to World War II, will find a...
Photo: Steve Oom Photo: Steve Oom It would be interesting to ask any historic car enthusiast what picture enters their minds when the Bugatti marque is mentioned. Perhaps some would think of the Bugatti T41 or to use its more widely known name, the Royale, a Bugatti of some notoriety...
As you’ll read elsewhere in this issue, we sadly report that the elder statesman of American motorsport, John Fitch, has...
Two Citroën Traction Avants at the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, examples of fairly mild French styling of the Deco era....
From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors on their collective ear with the sheer speed of his 1949 MG TC. In the Queen Catharine Cup race of 1952, he also shot out the window of the Grill...
The Morgan Motor Company With no thoughts of cars in mind, I first visited Malvern in the high summer of...
The U.S. motorsports community as a whole, and the profession of motorsports journalism in particular, suffered a great loss on...
In 1903, Henry M. Leland began selling a $750, single-cylinder, automobile under the name Cadillac. Later touted as the “Standard of the World,” Cadillac would soon become consolidated under the General Motors banner in 1909. Over the ensuing years, the Cadillac brand would come to be known as a status...
100 years ago, almost anyone could become a car manufacturer. The automobile—and the advance in technology to create it—was in...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
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...
Historic aircraft and competition cars, classic road cars and military machines will converge on Bicester Heritage in Oxfordshire for the...
The 1936 Bugatti Type 57G was also known as “The Tank” and it won Le Mans in 1939, just weeks...
After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing. They believed that advertising, prestige and development were in their interest and they were right. Demand for the motorcar began to increase. Most of these companies ran “Works Teams.” They...
Motor Racing at Thruxton – in the 1980s By Bruce Grant-Braham The latest volume in publisher Veloce’s “Those were the...
Parnelli JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann This year marks the 50th anniversary of Parnelli Jones’ 1963 Indianapolis 500 victory. That win, from...
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...
Neville HayPhoto: Kary Jiggle After a very successful year in 1935, Prince Chula Chakrabongse, who financed Prince Birabongse’s racing, decided...
Paul McMorran The loss of John Crosslé at the end of August 2014 completes the passing of a remarkable generation...
Tim ParnellPhoto: Pete Austin It was my father, Reg Parnell, who first went to Donington Park in 1934. Living near Derby it wasn’t too far for him to travel. While at this first meeting, purely as a spectator, I think he became intoxicated with the sights, smells and aura of...