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...
Several years ago we brought you this fantastic site devoted to photographs of ’50s and ’60s sports car racing, predominantly...
There is obsession…and then there is obsession! How about a Web site that is attempting to provide photos of every single car to compete in every single sports car race since 1948?!?! God, we love fanaticism! Hard to believe, but true. This month’s featured site is building a positively massive...
Mike Smith and his brother, Pat, started shooting pictures of Southern California drag racing when they were kids in the...
Few individuals could better be thought of to embody the spirit of the American sportsman than Briggs Swift Cunningham. Born...
After World War II, Welsh aircraft engineer Jack Turner began building his own hill climb and racecar “Specials,” which by 1950 resulted in the construction of his first sports car for the street. Turner’s premise was that there was a market in postwar Britain for a very simple, inexpensive sports...
If you’re a reader of this magazine, then chances are good that you are already something of a connoisseur of...
As we’ve said in this space many times before, thank heaven for the Internet’s ability to share one man’s obsession...
Historic Formula Junior racing in Britain and Europe has steadily grown over the past decade in both the total number of events and in their prestige. With fields at such events as Monaco, Goodwood, and Porto, F.Jr. has regained a level of interest in Europe not seen since its heyday...
As detailed in this month’s “Racecar Profile,” the Alvis Car & Engineering Company has a rich road and racing heritage...
For many racing enthusiasts around the globe, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that racing in Canada...
This month’s featured Web site is the official site of the U.S. Alfa Romeo Owners Club. With over 4,000 members owning everything from prewar 8C Monzas to Duetto Spiders, the AROC is a large body of like-minded individuals devoted to the maintenance, preservation and, perhaps most importantly, the racing of...
After reading this issue, and re-discovering the breadth and significance of Cooper racing cars to the history and progression of...
As explored in this month’s “Racecar Profile,” the Sunbeam Alpine was developed by the Rootes Group as a way of...
As discussed throughout this issue the 2.5-liter Tasman Series was an annual event consisting usually of eight races run in New Zealand and Australia, between 1964 and 1969. The series attracted the cream of international talent including such greats as Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart and Graham Hill, as well as...
This month’s featured Web site showcases the race photography of Larry Neuzel. Organized by race series and year, this site...
From the birth of the automobile to the start of World War II, a host of French and British automobiles were linked by a convoluted series of company failures, schisms and buyouts. As an example, The Clement Talbot Ltd. company was founded in 1903 under the patronage of the Earl...
Hamilton White is a Monaco-based Brit who collects and sells a staggering range of esoterica. After our November Automobilia feature,...
This Web site is a cooperative effort between six Australian photographers who have pooled their respective archives that span some...
Robert de la Riviere (pseudonym “Rob Roy”) was an accomplished automotive artist who lived from 1909–1992. Born in France, he grew up before WWII, painting and sketching automobiles, and in particular racing competitions. Both before the war and after, Roy covered races for numerous important magazines and newspapers bringing the...
This month’s featured Web site comprises a large collection of photography from East Coast road racing events in the 1960s....
Dennis Gray has been a professional photographer since the ’70s and, in addition to his work in the advertising field,...
This interesting Web site is devoted to preserving historic photographs of the Cumberland Airport Sports Car races. Held from 1953–1970, the Cumberland airport, in western Maryland, hosted a variety of local and SCCA road races, on a classic “airport-style” temporary road course. On occasion, big names like Carroll Shelby, Roger...
One of the curious offshoots of America’s involvement in WWII was the fact that many American GI’s developed a taste...
As evidenced in VR’s recent two-part feature, the diminutive under-1-liter Italian sports car affectionately known as “Etceterini” encompasses a broad,...