There’s a fantastic trend building on the Internet: it is individuals creating Web sites to showcase their old amateur racing...
In the early 1950s, Donald Healey turned the British automotive industry on its ear with his affordable, mass-produced sports car,...
As you might expect for a site so named, Trackpedia offers a compendium of nearly 1000 racetracks around the world filled with maps, turn-by-turn guides and explanatory videos to provide an idea of what to expect should you go there to race. For each track there is also information about...
As touched upon in this month’s interview with one-time BRM (British Racing Motors) team manager Tim Parnell, the Bourne-based Grand...
With the return of the month of June comes the return of one of racing’s most prestigious and historic races – the 24-Hours of Le Mans. This month’s Website is devoted not only to the current 24-hour race, but also to its rich history. From a historical perspective, this site...
Our featured site this month has taken on the daunting task of tracking the history of individual racecars from the...
Few figures in American racing history have had as much impact as Harry Miller, builder of an incredible range of...
From 1954–1967, Wilmot Hills Raceway, in Wilmot, Wisconsin, played host to a wide variety of road races. Built by the Chicago region of the SCCA just north of the IllinoisWisconsin border, the 1-mile circuit at Wilmot Hills was one of the first purpose-built race circuits in the Mid-west. The circuit...
Over the years, Vintage Racecar has been fortunate to have been able to include the work of talented cutaway artist...
Dave Friedman Photography If you’re a regular reader of VRJ, then you’re probably familiar with the breathtaking photographic work of...
Several years ago we brought you this fantastic site devoted to photographs of ’50s and ’60s sports car racing, predominantly on the West Coast. Because of the open format where the owner encourages people to contribute old photographs and commentary, this Web site has now become an even better resource...
With Peter Collins’s remembrance from his early days at Germany’s Nürburgring serving as this month’s feature article, we thought it...
Anyone looking to learn about, service, purchase or sell a pre-war Aston Martin should find time to visit this site,...
The broadly experienced Bill McGuire, whose several careers in the automotive world include consultancy, troubleshooting, education, negotiations and, of course, journalism—with long stints on the mastheads of both Hot Rod and AutoWeek—launched this site last June to provide readers with a daily dose of behind-the-scenes industry news, information and photography...
This month we bring you another You Tube link, one featuring this issue’s focus on Jaguar, Group 44 and Mazda...
This interesting Web site is devoted to preserving historic photographs of the Cumberland Airport Sports Car races. Held from 1953–1970,...
Most commonly known among the general populace for its oil-squirting, rocket-launching DB5 of the ’60s James Bond movies, the Aston Martin Car Company actually boasts a very long history of sports and competition cars dating back to the company’s founding in 1919. This month’s Web site is an unofficial site...
One of the curious offshoots of America’s involvement in WWII was the fact that many American GI’s developed a taste...
Aficionados of the Riley marque, particularly devotees of the Riley Specials raced prior to World War II, will find a...
While often overlooked in the annals of motorsport history, from 1963 to 1988 the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) provided some epic production car racing. In its early days, the ETCC was an affordable entry point for young drivers to hone their craft. Future stars like Baghetti, Ickx and Whitmore...
March Cars was created in 1969 by a quartet of Englishmen with a shared vision to construct racing cars for...
Have a hankering for Healeys? Then you probably already know about this site, but just in case…. It’s maintained by...
The Historic Vehicle Association is developing a National Historic Vehicle Register that will carefully and accurately document America’s most historically significant automobiles, motorcycles, trucks and commercial vehicles. The HVA works in collaboration with the U.S. Department of the Interior to determine which vehicles meet the standard for recognition and documentation...
Few would argue with the fact that Scottish racing great Jim Clark ranks as one of the greatest Formula One...
As highlighted in this month’s Racecar Profile (pg. 20), the Porsche 914-6 competed at both the professional and amateur levels...
This relatively recently born site calls itself “An informative and entertaining antique automobile photo magazine,” and the release announcing its launch drew comparisons to the old Life magazine that was once one of America’s foremost links to what was going on—visually at least. Most of the photos here are accompanied...
For over 50 years, the Chevrolet Corvette has been considered by many to be “America’s sports car.” And as early...
Considered by many to be one of the greatest periods in motor racing history, the late ’30s saw epic battles...
From 1958 to 1968, Meadowdale Raceway in Carpentersville, Illinois, played host to a wide variety of professional and amateur racing. From sports cars and motorcycles to stock cars and karts, virtually every form of motorized contraption took to the 3.27-mile course, which featured a 4000’ long straight and an 180-degree,...
