On August 28, we lost our great and good champion, Phil Hill. The entire world of motor sports is saddened....
The steering feel; that’s what I remember best. The pinion perfectly meshing with its rack was a tactile delight in my fingers, giving a sense of well-bedded and properly oiled Olde English machinery cheery in its work. Second impression: the way that long, lazy-seeming six awakened at 3000 rpm and...
I remember that the Reader’s Digest used to have a series of articles titled some-thing like “The Most Unforgettable Character...
A Rogue, an XK120 and the World Record that Took 5 Years and Stirling Moss to Break. It was a...
Independent automotive designer Bill Flajole worked on a number of important designs, including the Nash Metropolitan, before turning his attention to reimagining the Jaguar XK120. In 1955, Flajole mated his custom, fastback fiberglass body with a 1953 XK120M, high performance chassis and running gear to give birth to the the...
For two consecutive years—1969 and 1970—Porsche won the World Manufacturers Championship. Brian Redman was an important part of the teams,...
1962 Tojeiro-Buick Photo: Pete Austin “Just turn the key and it will start,” I was told, as the door of the...
The restored Jaguar XK120 that set a production car world land speed record for the Flying Mile with a clocking of 172.412 mph in 1953 won “Best in Class, Post War Racing” at the Quail Motorsports Gathering. Factory test driver Norman Dewis, who set the record on Belgium’s Jabbeke Motorway,...
I have included a few remembrances about Lance in some previous Vintage Racecar columns, but because he was such a...
With its French curves, 120 mph performance and a price tag of £988, the XK120 was Jaguar’s most important roadster....
Before WWII, the company which became Jaguar was called Swallow Sidecars and it had diversified into making special bodies for cars, most notably for Austin Sevens. A Swallow body added about 15% to the cost of an Austin Seven, but was worth much more in street cred. In the 2018...
The main thing about the 1953 race at Watkins Glen was the question of whether there would be a race...
The famed Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will celebrate its 60th anniversary this August by recognizing the 75th anniversary of Jaguar. The Concours, of course, sprang up in association with the original Pebble Beach Sports Car Road Races in 1950, and the feature contest of that first meeting was won by...
The Jaguar XK120 was the fastest production car in the world when it was first released in 1948, with a...
It’s nearly 50 years since Bob Smith started his business RS Panels in Nuneaton, England. Over that time he has...
Race Retro 2011 will celebrate one of Britain’s best-loved, if not the best-loved, sports cars next year when it returns to Stoneleigh Park, Coventry in the earlier slot of February 25–27. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Jaguar E-Type’s launch at the show will be the drivers and backroom boys...
During the Fifties, a number of women were involved in the sports car craze. This was during a time when...
My first car after leaving active duty in the Army in 1953 was a 1948 Buick convertible that I sort...
The Jaguar XK120 was the fastest production car in the world when it was first released in 1949, with a top speed of 120 mph – and it had the looks to boot. Tedward YouTube channel, gives us an onboard footage of what it feels like to drive a 1954...
It was done in haste. It was to be an alluring delivery system to introduce Jaguar’s brilliant new XK engine...
Scottish racer, Bill Dobson, who passed away on October 13, 2008, was one of the first drivers to join David...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as this. For starters, his namesake ancestor built the first successful steamboat 11 years after the Declaration of Independence severed the bond between colonial America and Mother England. In his own...
Georges Lemaître actually finished 2nd in the 1894 Paris-Rouen Horseless Carriage Competition in this Peugeot 3hp, but was awarded victory...
Following the demise of motor racing during the Second World War years, there were those enthusiastic individuals, at a very...
There is a section in The Sunday Times called In Gear and it is basically boys’ toys, with cars as the headline, plus pod things, which I do not understand. Every week it features a new supercar, and even then it doesn’t get all of them, supercars are everywhere. England...
The Jaguar XK series made its first public debut at the 1948 London Motor Show in the shape of the...