Here’s yet another source for rare, hand-held video of the old days as shot by those who were there. Courtesy...
This month’s site, Prairie Street Art, features the work of Chicago-based photographer Ron Nelson, whose wide recognition includes having examples...
Failure is not a friend of many racing drivers, but there is a school of thought that asks: if you can’t laugh at yourself, what good are you? To paraphrase another old saw, it is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. So, it...
You never know where interesting collections of rare photos will turn up. While cruising through the Desert Centre Triumph Register...
Have a question about an Alfa Romeo? Odds are that you’ll be able to find the answer somewhere on this...
Billing itself as “the largest selection of vintage racing photos on the Internet,” Dale LaFollette’s Vintage Motorphoto is a resource for everything from the earliest days of automotive competition up to the present day. LaFollette was, for many years, the manager of Portland International Raceway, and has always harbored a...
Most readers should be familiar with the work of Bernard Cahier and his son Paul-Henri as chroniclers of the Formula...
Although neither connected to nor authorized by MG Rover Group, this site of the MG Cars Enthusiasts’ Club is a...
While we don’t necessarily want to become a facilitator for YouTube, even if the company does appear to be investing in the sport with its support of the new USF1 team, it’s hard to resist pointing out that a nice trilogy of clips from the 1957 running of the 12...
Billing itself as “America’s Largest and most historically important archive of automotive history,” this is the official site of the...
They linger in legend long after the last echoes of Offenhauser exhaust faded into the breeze blowing across the hallowed...
Since there exists a convoluted historical precedent for such a move, let’s go Web surfing to Germany by way of South America. There, courtesy of a band of faithful Argentinean enthusiasts, we find this month’s featured site that is, for the moment anyway, devoted primarily to Porsche’s fabulous 917. Unless...
In looking for some Formula 5000 video, we recently stumbled across this fantastic piece of a documentary on YouTube that...
This official site for Aston Martin Racing offers an insider’s view of the marque’s competition efforts over the years. Most...
As an accompaniment to this month’s cover feature, and for readers wanting to learn more about the history of Lola Cars, the British racing car constructor that celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, we direct you to www.lolaheritage.co.uk. Mindful of that history, the company maintains the site “dedicated to Lola...
Created by a quartet of members from the Binghamton Automobile Racing Club, this site bills itself as a repository for...
Given this issue’s focus on safety equipment, and knowing that most of our readers possess at least an appreciation for...
As winter arrives in the Northern Hemisphere, the reverse occurs south of the equator with summer coming on and bringing with it the height of racing season. This site focuses on racing and photographs of it from Australia and New Zealand, with each country having a separate “home” section on...
In 1909, Ettore Bugatti set up a factory, in Molsheim, France, for the production of his own line of automobiles....
The passing of any legend will always generate a fresh wave of interest in his or her biographical history, and...
Long-time readers of VR, will be familiar with the period photography of Allen Kuhn. From 1956 until 1965, Kuhn worked as a staff photographer for Sports Car Journal and California Sports Car Magazine covering the burgeoning California road-racing scene. However, Kuhn stopped shooting racing after 1965 and gave no further...
This month’s Web site is essentially a photo album, by a fan for other fans, and features a variety of...
For over 50 years, the Chevrolet Corvette has been considered by many to be “America’s sports car.” And as early...
In the pantheon of British racing greats, few have attained the near mythical status of Britain’s first Formula One World...
Started in 1968 as Formula A in the United States, Formula 5000, as it became known, featured open-wheeled “Formula One–style”...
Over the years, Vintage Racecar has been fortunate to have been able to include the work of talented cutaway artist Shin Yoshikawa in numerous features and Racecar Profiles. Japanese-born Yoshikawa began drawing cars when he was 10 years old, and over the past 50 years has come to be known...
As touched upon in this month’s interview with one-time BRM (British Racing Motors) team manager Tim Parnell, the Bourne-based Grand...
West Coast photographer John Wilson started shooting pictures of racing in the 1960s at various racetracks in California. As such,...
It’s hard to know where to start with this month’s featured Web site! What initially caught our eye was a surprisingly thorough section on all the various types of collectible automobilia. However, in addition, this site has an almost bewildering assortment of articles and sections devoted to virtually any aspect...
