With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was...
Learning to race on a road course can be daunting. Even though it was almost 50 years ago, I remember...
Three apparently unconnected things seemed to me to have a synergy. One is the supposed 75th anniversary of Jaguar, a date that both the company and most of the media have got wrong. Jaguar Cars Ltd. was registered in March, 1945, Jaguar had been the name of some models made by...
Several months ago I received an irate email from a VR reader with one simple, albeit piercing, question; “Mark, why...
Recently, I was judging at a racecar concours in Southern California, when I ran into an old friend named Dave...
Carlo Pintacuda was one of the Florentine greats, a motor racing elite from the Tuscan city that also included Gastone Brilli-Peri, Emilio Materassi, Clemente Biondetti and Giulio Masetti. Pintacuda not only won the fabled Mille Miglia twice in Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeos, he was also the man who convinced Enzo...
In 1953, the very first Corvettes hit Chevrolet Dealers’ show rooms. Hailed by some as the long-awaited American sports car,...
It hardly seems credible, but the 13th Goodwood Revival Meeting has just taken place and it was as good as...
Italo Piana is a living legend among Italian MotoGP fans. He won the Italian Motorcycle Championship three times, and was part of a team that set 46 world speed records at the Monza oval with a Ducati 100-cc Gran Sport in 1956. Born in Torino, Italy in 1930, Piana raced...
“My name is Casey; and I’m a recovering Triumph owner.” Or at least that’s how I’ve felt for a number...
Unlike those of Jim Clark, Mario Andretti and Michael Schumacher, not a name at the forefront of all our minds....
Twenty-five years ago, a company called Amstrad launched an inexpensive word processor. The package was crude, each three-inch disk held only 157K RAM, though on both sides. The operating program had to be loaded every time it was switched on, and you still had to send your copy by post,...
In 1958, former Huntington Park High School friends Larry Kent and Ray Weaver decided to take a shot at the...
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or...
I think it is easy for those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere to underestimate the global racing contributions of our southern brothers. Only the most knowledgeable northern enthusiasts know about such antipodean series like the Tasman Series, yet even the most ardent anoraks from the north will likely...
Two heroes and a heroine. What unites them? The Audi Quattro, rallying’s first four-wheel-drive, turbocharged car. Hannu and Stig each...
After WWII, sports cars became more and more popular. As a consequence, road racing took hold in the U.S. For...
The BBC recently screened a documentary on the 1955 Le Mans disaster. Pierre Bouillon’s car was launched into the air at high speed from the back of another competitor and caused carnage. The name may be unfamiliar to some because Bouillon raced under the name, Levegh, as did his uncle,...
Matt Jones is one of the neatest car guys I’ve ever met. His love and enthusiasm for Italian automobiles is...
This month’s test drive of the new Lotus Evora (see Product Review, pg 78) got me thinking about my own...
In the 1920s and 1930s, British schoolboys devoured every word they could find about their favorite comic book heroes, like Biggles and Dick Barton, Special Agent. In Sir Henry Birkin Bt, however, they had a real live, walking, talking hero and they idolized him all the more. He was passably...
During the years following WWII, road racing in the U.S. initially developed as an amateur sport, mostly run by the...
For as long as he can remember, Mel Jacobs of Houston, Texas has been love-struck by the coach-built Deco cars of France. More specifically, he has had a particular fascination with the cars from Delahaye ever since he read the story of René Dreyfus who won the celebrated “Million Franc...
In honor of its 75th anniversary this year, we’ve partnered with Jaguar to bring you this special issue commemorating the...
Frank Raymond Wilton “Lofty” England was not head and shoulders above many other men just because he was 6 ft...
Jaguar’s XK120 Roadster was introduced at the London Motor Show in the fall of 1948. A year later, cars began to appear on American roads and tracks. They came in three configurations: roadster, convertible and coupe. All three were raced, but most entrants preferred the somewhat lighter roadster version. The...
William Lyons was a great stylist, and is possibly the only CEO of a major manufacturer to have personally penned...
David Duthu’s appetite for interesting and eclectic cars seems to be boundless. He vintage races a Bugatti Type 35A and...
I sit here pondering: “How do you say something about Dan Gurney that hasn’t already been said?” It’s tough. Few, if any, across motor sport history have had the breadth of success and experience that Gurney has enjoyed. Sure, many have won Grands Prix, or Le Mans, or NASCAR races,...
