The Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona 2019 was held January 26-27 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida....
Vintage Racecar Features
Rear-mounted, air-cooled cars are a common site at racetracks, persistently challenging their conventional, front-engine, water-cooled competition often with great success....
This past summer Dennis Gray had the opportunity to interview his longtime friend Giddings. Sadly, this would prove to be the last interview with one of sport’s truly great ambassadors. Peter Giddings and his cars will be missed. He was one of the best. Pre-war Alfa Romeos, Lancia D24 and...
In 1964, Nissan Motor Company introduced a two-door sports coupe named the Silivia 1600 Sports Coupe. One year later, at...
The 1951 Panhard Dyna X 110/X85 owned by Yoshinobu and Miyoko Kato won the FIVA Best Preserved Vehicle award at...
That Don Martine is an MG guy is beyond dispute; the long-time Monterey-area hotelier and racing enthusiast lives and breathes the Octagon brand. At one time or another he’s owned an example of just about every early MG built. Right now he owns several notable old MGs, including the 1949 TC...
In 2012, Sports Car Digest and Senior Photographer Dennis Gray profiled famed car collector, Jon Shirley. Ever gracious with his...
There is something about racing which gets into the blood more thoroughly than a good dose of Castrol R and...
Porsche set another new record on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife in cooperation with Manthey-Racing. On Thursday, 25 October 2018, the Porsche GT2 RS MR with 700 hp completed a lap of the 20.6-kilometre long circuit in 6:40.3 minutes. No other road-legal vehicle has ever been so fast on ‘The Green Hell’ track....
The idea of the M1 became official in September 1975, when Jochen Neerpasch, head of BMW Motorsport GmbH presented the...
Lotus needs your help in tracking down the long-lost Lotus Mark I, the first car built by company founder Colin...
Twenty Lamborghini Espada and Islero models gathered on 7 September 2018 in Perugia, Italy to tour the region in celebration of their 50th anniversary. It was 1968 when the House of Sant’Agata Bolognese presented its first four-seater (Espada) and the evolution of its 2+2 (Islero). The tour route covered almost...
At its final huge public appearance on the “919 Tribute Tour”, the record-breaking Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo met a historic...
How on earth does someone with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin become known as...
In January 1957, a big mustached man wrestled with a mighty Studebaker racing car on a narrow, twisty and bumpy hillclimb at Krugersdorp in South Africa. What was a racing car that had been purpose built for the 1932 Indianapolis 500 doing there, 25 years later and 12,000 miles from...
Duncan was initially entranced by record keeping and statistics in racing events. This interest morphed into a desire to race...
Porsche unveiled the new 935 race car at the 2018 Rennsport Reunion VI, which was staged September 27-30 at WeatherTech...
Fitting an engine many times the size of the original is never a sure fire recipe for racing success. Mark Walker and Duncan Pittaway have done just that with their GN-based, Vintage Sports Car Club-eligible specials, using components originally intended for the aviation industry. Joseph Mark Bates evaluates the results…...
As Rolf Stommelen climbed behind the wheel of the front-running Andial/Meister Porsche 935K3 after co-driver Derek Bell had pitted to...
The Aston Martin DB5 is back, thanks to a collaboration between Aston Martin and EON Productions, the company that produces...
The debut Grand Basel was staged 6-9 September 2018 in Basel, Switzerland. Celebrating ‘Excellence in Motion’, the inaugural Basel edition Grand Basel presented the automobile in the cultural context of art, design, architecture and lifestyle to more than 12,000 visitors. The show’s exhibits were selected to include more than 100...
The new Ferrari Monza SP1 and SP2 were recently announced at the factory in Maranello. These limited-edition special-series cars are...
Ruf Automobile GmbH displayed the all-new CTR and recently restored CTR ‘Yellowbird’ #001, which was awarded Best In Class at...
In the earlier days of his racing career, Craig Fisher (who recently passed away) raced just about everything he could get his hands on, from used DKW Monzas at Harewood Acres to Abarth Simcas at Le Circuit Mont Tremblant and even the ferocious Comstock EXP at Mosport. He also raced...
Louis Wagner [dropcap]S[/dropcap]eeing the Darracq 120 racer that Louis Wagner (also a pioneer aviator) drove to victory in the 1906 Vanderbilt...
An image of Reid Railton with his parents depicted the engineer at the time of his decision, supported by Henry...
Author Brock Yates once described Judy Stropus as a “racing personality,” since her career in motorsports has covered a gamut of disciplines including, her almost savant ability to accurately time and score endurance sports car races before the introduction of computers, driving race cars, and becoming an author and an...
By the early 1960s, Ford had carved a very specific niche for itself in the UK. Having built low cost,...
Amid the bustle and hubbub of a popular Riviera restaurant, a baritone burble rises through the floor, vibrating up high,...
Some cars have gone down in history for legendary wins, for the innovations they introduced or for the drivers who piloted them to glory. Others, meanwhile, have become veritable icons for what they represented: a unique story, a turning point in history, a social phenomenon, an event that rippled beyond...
