In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
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John BarnardPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early...
The history of 0666 TR, and the 250 Testa Rossa program at large, are rooted in the broader context of international motor sport during the late 1950s. With Mercedes-Benz out of the picture, the highest levels of sports car racing consisted of an escalating battle between Ferrari and Maserati for...
Orazio Satta and Giuseppi Busso had joined Alfa Romeo as designers in 1938 and 1939 and worked together on everything...
1956 Sebring 12 Hour Grand Prix of Endurance – Sebring Comes of Age, With Difficulty By Louis Galanos | Photos...
Following the premiere of the one-off design study at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance earlier this summer, at an event ahead of the 2012 United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas, McLaren GT confirmed plans for a limited production run of the track-focused 12C GT Can-Am Edition....
The Platypus Porsche Sports Racing car By Kevin Triplett | Photos by Dennis Gray The Platypus Sports racing car routinely...
1962 Tojeiro-Buick Photo: Pete Austin “Just turn the key and it will start,” I was told, as the door of the...
Away from the start of Race 3 at Eagle Mountain in April of 1957, Dave Tallaksen’s 3.4-liter XK-SS (#147) shares the front row of the grid with Bob Schroeder’s Kurtis-Chevy (#233) as a pair of Corvettes give chase. Photo: Bob Jackson By late 1956 the production of Jaguar’s D-Type competition model...
From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors...
This Porsche 962-103, better known as the “Holbert Racing Löwenbräu Special,” is widely considered the most successful and recognizable 962....
By Art Evans | Photographs as credited My abridged dictionary defines “provenance” as “source, derivation.” Provenance is important insofar as collections of art are concerned. The value of a painting, for instance, is greatly enhanced if its history can be documented. Another important aspect is authenticity. My wife inherited a...
Report by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Think about a really good, solid, exterior door latch and lock, the precise snick...
By Art Evans John Fitch and I were close friends for more than 50 years. We played together, sailed together,...
Over 10,000 individual race victories, 10 world records and 133 international titles are part of the racing heritage behind the Abarth marque. In fact, success in competition has always been one of the cornerstones of the Abarth story, and it is no less important now than when Karl Abarth founded...
Report and photos by Jamie Doyle Confession. I like light cars. My Lotus Elan S3 Coupe weighs roughly 1,500 pounds...
Sports Car Digest continues the series of photo retrospectives drawn from the film archive of Bob Harmeyer. The first installment...
There are cars, and there are cars. Some come and stay, many come and pass on. A few appear briefly but don’t make it to the grid, and then they disappear. Thanks to historic racing and car collecting fever, however, a number have managed to rise from the ashes. VR...
The 1950s and ’60s were to many involved in Australian historic motor sport, the halcyon years. It was the time...
By Art Evans When you say “Moss” to motorsports aficionados, the name, “Stirling,” or “Sir Stirling” comes to mind. But for those who collect, restore or refurbish classic cars, it’s just as probably “Moss Motors.” Al Moss established and developed the company that became the largest supplier of classic and...
Frankly, I was surprised at how easily it drove after some previous experiences I had with other open-wheelers. Owner Ed...
The Paddock at Watkins Glen in 1954 is filled with a representative sampling of the caars being raced, including Jaguar...
With the recent passings of Carroll Shelby, Roy Salvadori and Ted Cutting, all key players for Aston Martin’s World Sportscar Championship-winning team of 1959, it seemed reasonable to speak with another racer who worked in that fabled John Wyer-run team, Rex Woodgate. Woodgate is a notoriously detail-oriented mechanic who became...
American motorsports journalist Christopher “Chris” Constantine Economaki passed away Friday, September 28th, 2012 at the age of 91. Economaki served...
The Larry H. Miller Total Performance Museum announced the acquisition of the 1968 Ford GT40 Chassis P/1074 that sold for...
Pavel Kasik recently bid farewell to his beloved Tatra T77 only days after completing its 20-year restoration. The Tatra started its overseas journey of 4,279 miles from the Czech Republic to the 2014 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, which will host an exclusive feature of streamlined Tatra automobiles for the first...
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor...
A Jaguar XK120 Roadster was judged Best in Class in the Postwar Sports Open category at the 2012 Pebble Beach...
The BMW R7 motorcycle was judged Best in Class in the German Motorcycles category at the 2012 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, held Sunday, August 19th on the Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. The award was received by Karl Baumer, Head of BMW Group Classic. “The BMW R7 is one...
