In late March, around the time of the New York Auto Show, Jaguar made the surprising announcement that it would...
Magazines are a funny thing. You hold in your hand the August issue, but you’re likely reading it in July and I’m writing this column in May! Go figure. It’s no wonder I can’t keep straight what month it is…not to mention what day it is! On the 8th of...
I find it really hard to believe that this issue of Vintage Racecar is our 100th! I recently had a...
In several sections of this month’s issue, you’ll find coverage of just a small sampling of the constellation of events...
By now, you’ve presumably seen at least some of our extensive coverage of this year’s Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI, from Monterey [Click here for our coverage]. At this point, if Rennsport is news to you, you would have to have been in an automotive coma for the past month or...
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I was given a rare opportunity to drive one of the ultimate...
This past weekend I made the annual pilgrimage to the Long Beach Grand Prix. This year was the event’s 48th...
As you’ve hopefully noticed over the past couple of years, we’ve been bringing you quite a bit of content from the “Land Down Under.” I’ve always known that Australia is one of the most underrated automotive cultures in the world, but I really didn’t realize how much so, until I...
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I recently had the great honor of being invited to the Indianapolis...
So how did you spend this year’s Memorial Day weekend? Personally, I broke with a long-standing tradition. Historically, I’ve spent the better part of my Memorial Day weekends lying on the couch in my underwear and a T-shirt – a small driblet of drool hanging from the corner of my...
Racing cars and airplanes have shared an inter-connection dating all the way back to the dawn of the 20th Century....
For the better part of two years now, you’ve witnessed an ever-growing amount of articles, photos and event coverage originating...
Once upon a time, it used to be that the most talented drivers made it into Formula One. Quaint notion, I know, but that was way back in Ye Olde Times. Then it came to pass that most drivers couldn’t make it into Formula One on talent alone… they also...
I recently had the good fortune to spend a couple of weeks in England on business this past February. Now,...
A couple of weeks ago, you may recall I bared my soul to you with the admission that I drove...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human and suffer many of the same issues and problems that we all do. Of course, our image of the professional racecar driver tends to be more along the lines of...
Are you familiar with the “Trickle Down” theory? If not, you may be soon. As background, the theory was first...
Do you remember the first racecar you ever lusted after? I’m not talking about the “Oh, I’d love to own...
As you’ll have hopefully seen in the large promotional pages we’ve run over the past couple of months, we’ve at last launched a completely new and upgraded Web site. Needless to say, this was a long, painful process but I couldn’t be more pleased with the results. Now, we finally...
Many magazine editors waste their monthly column space, by summarizing the content in that issue. What’s the point of that?...
You may have looked at this month’s cover car and said, “That’s not vintage!” You might also have looked at this month’s cover car and thought, “Hmm, I wouldn’t mind something like that!” And therein lies the predicament. Having done numerous surveys and questionnaires of our readership, we know that...
In my experience, most auto enthusiasts tend to live dual lives, we have our automotive life (cars, car-friends, events, etc)...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher On the Roadcar side of the magazine this month, I have written about a venerable British icon—Jaguar—that...
While this news has been somewhat eclipsed by the virtual implosion of the U.S. auto industry, after more than a year of boardroom wranglings and financial maneuverings, it looks very likely that Porsche and its bigger sibling Volkswagen will soon be merging…or, at a minimum, officially joining forces. While this...
As you’ll see on page 38, this issue marks the launch of yet another new column. One of my goals,...
Clive Chapman, son of famed Lotus founder Colin Chapman and the guiding light at Classic Team Lotus, revealed an interesting little bit of Lotus trivia recently. Apparently, tucked away in some dusty corner of their Hethel shops was a fireproof case that contained 28 rolls of old microfilm. When they...