Roberto Moreno enjoyed a productive career in the upper levels of professional motor sport even though his accomplishments may not...
Vintage Racecar Features
The first Audi advertising with the ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ or ‘Progress through Technology’ slogan appeared 40 years ago, in 1971....
Dragone Classic Motorcars recently opened a new showroom for automobiles and gallery of vintage automotive art and automobilia in Westport, Connecticut, within one hour of New York City. The new location allows for a more extensive display of brass, vintage, pre- and post-war specialty automobiles offered, as well as original...
Story and photos by Leigh Dorrington The Schlumpf Collection in Mulhouse, France has been described as the most prestigious automobile...
Interview and photos by Dennis Gray (unless noted) On Tuesday between the Pre-Reunion and the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, Cris...
1964 Lotus 30 During his test drive at Silverstone, the author found that most of what he’d heard about the Lotus 30 over the years wasn’t necessarily true. Photo: Pete Austin Racing car enthusiasts, on the whole, treasure every innovative idea manufacturers have managed to conjure up. However, Auto Union and...
Each year we devote a portion of our February magazine to the issue of safety and safety devices in historic...
Frank Williams started out like so many racers, with little more than his desire to go racing. Over nearly half...
The Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona 2011 was held January 29-30 at the 3.56-mile (5.73 km) Daytona International Speedway, a combined course made up of portions of the NASCAR tri-oval and an infield road course. Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates’ magical run continued with their fourth overall victory in...
1971 24 Hours of Daytona – The End of an Era Story and photos by Louis Galanos Few fans of...
It was on 29 January 1886 that Carl Benz filed an application in Berlin for a patent on his three-wheeled...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the Jaguar E-Type, arguably one of the most famous and desirable cars in automotive history. When it was launched in 1961, the appeal of E-Type transcended the automotive world. Such is the inherent rightness of its proportions, stance and purity of...
Ferrari revealed the first photographs and information about the new FF, the company’s most powerful, versatile four-seater ever, as well...
Story by Will Silk and photos by Richard Parramint Team Lotus discovered the use of ground effect with the Type...
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, opened the North American International Auto Show 2011 with the World Premiere of the Porsche 918 RSR. Commenting on the first appearance of the sports car manufacturer from Stuttgart at the Detroit show since 2007, Matthias Mueller, President and CEO of Porsche AG...
The 49th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona will be held January 29-30, 2011 on the 11-turn, 3.56 mile...
Today would have marked the 100th birthday of Fritz “Huschke“ von Hanstein, one of the greatest personalities in the company...
1924 Bugatti Type 13 While many racing cars of the Edwardian period and the early 1920s and 1930s were huge—behemoths to some, especially on dirt-covered roads—there were equally a corresponding number that were miniscule in comparison, many almost fragile in appearance. At first some of these small cars suffered ridicule...
Pat Flaherty’s time on racing’s grandest stage may have been all too brief, but he managed to make it count....
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his...
By Will Silk Few mass produced performance cars that have appeared over the past 25 years have lived up to the level of credibility like that of BMW’s M3. In the early 1980s, BMW was forced to cut production of their M1 mid-engine supercar that had significantly helped the Bavarian...
The Reno Air Races 2010, also known as the National Championship Air Races, were held September 15-19 at the Reno-Stead...
By Will Silk Tom Walkinshaw passed away December 12th, 2010 at just 64 years of age after a battle with...
Brian Redman Talks – Redman in Redmond By Jay Gillotti and photos by Curtis Creager We were greatly honored to have Brian Redman as our guest for the Porsche Club of America Pacific Northwest Region’s 50th Anniversary last November. An additional special treat was provided by the folks at Vintage...
Interview and photos by Dennis Gray Bruce Canepa has been involved with automobiles in one fashion or another nearly all...
1971 Alfa Romeo GTV Trans-Am If you ask any pre-teenage boy what a transformer is, he’ll tell you it is...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road racing championship last month it was coming off its most successful season yet, with 11 races producing nine different winners, but the schedule for 1960 would feature only five races,...
Racemaker Press, The Winners Book • US$65 plus shipping and handling Noted racing historian James O’Keefe has compiled an incredible...
David Wishart Hobbs was born into an Australian immigrant family in the British West Midlands city of Leamington Spa, five...
Story and photos by Rich Martin By the time the 1973 United States Grand Prix came around I practically made Watkins Glen my second address. My big brother Joe really started something special for me, between Grand Prix racing, Can-Am, Le Mans sports cars, Trans Am, Formula A/5000, and any...
