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...
The history of Automobili Lamborghini is one that almost parallels the success of post-World War II Italy itself, and is...
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. The French initiated the Art Deco movement in 1924 with the Paris exposition of the industrial and decorative arts, so it is no surprise that some of the automobiles subsequently...
Audi has recently reacquired an extremely rare Auto Union Silver Arrow racing car consisting largely of original parts. It is...
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 September 28, when Chris Economaki passed away just two weeks shy of his 92nd birthday. Economaki may be best known as editor and publisher of the weekly racing newspaper National...
Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic...
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 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...
Morgans were regularly used in England before World War II in Rallies, Trials and Speed Tests. This is a Morgan...
Historic aircraft and competition cars, classic road cars and military machines will converge on Bicester Heritage in Oxfordshire for the...
Legendary team owner Frank Arciero has died from the aftereffects of an aneurysm. Arciero was a 14-year-old Italian immigrant when he arrived in America just prior to the outbreak of World War II, and despite speaking no English proceeded to craft a classic American Dream success story in three different...
As you’ll read elsewhere in this issue, we sadly report that the elder statesman of American motorsport, John Fitch, has...
The name of Noel Macklin is writ large in the history of British sporting cars. Marques such as Eric-Campbell, Silver Hawk, Invicta, Railton and Fairmile all owe their very existence to Macklin. Back in the March 2013 issue of Vintage Roadcar we looked closely at a very delectable 1929 Invicta...
Opening in 1921, AVUS (Automobil-Verkehrs-und Übungs-Straße) was devised by the AvD as a motorsport venue and test track for the...
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 of his racing career. John FitchPhoto: Mercedes-Benz Before, after and during that career, however, John Fitch was much more than a racing driver. He served as pilot of both Light...
It’s rather ironic that both the birth of the “Pony Car” movement in the mid-1960s, and its eventual death in...
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Wrong Place for Flying Dear Editor, Years ago I took weekly flying lessons, accumulating enough seat time to solo. I called my late father-in-law Mike [Rothschild, a factory Triumph driver at Le Mans] and asked him about flying and going forward with the training. (He was then on his second twin Beechcraft,...
Motor racing surely can’t complain about the amount of coverage it now receives on television, but transmission of motor sport...
German racer Paul Pietsch, the last surviving driver of the prewar Silver Arrows era and the oldest living Grand Prix...
Phil Remington, universally recognized as one of racing’s finest craftsmen, has passed away at the age of 92. Remington left his fingerprints all over seven decades of racecar design innovation, with many of today’s standard practices being solutions he created on the run for problems that popped up in his...