Interview by Greg Wing and photos by author and Dan Tooker Jim Glass owns a Corvette shop and showroom in...
Vintage Racecar Features
Although racing drivers Johnny von Neumann and Luigi Chinetti were instrumental in the development of the California Spider, only a...
Can-Am McLaren M8B – The Perfect Race Car Story and Photos by Pete Lyons Some race cars come off the shop floor ready to win their very first race. One beauty famous for doing so was 1967’s F1 Lotus 49. More rarely, a new car will win its first couple...
1964 Cooper T70 For a youthful 26 year old, the lure of winning your own country’s premier motor race in...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
Tony Southgate began his lengthy career in motorsports by joining Lola Cars in the early days of that venerable marque’s existence. The young Englishman became the first drawing office employee of founder Eric Broadley’s growing company, a firm that would serve as fertile ground for a number of aspiring young...
Paul Ernst Strahle, one of the most successful racing drivers during the 1950s and 1960s, passed away October 27, 2010...
1972 Lotus 72D and 1986 Lotus 98T Emerson Fittipaldi drove Lotus 72 chassis 72/5 in no less than 39 races...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time This photo montage shows (clockwise from bottom) Haywood in Bruce Leven’s Porsche 956, at Porsche-palooza in 1981, all smiles after his third victory at Le Mans in 1994, and celebrating...
Warren Olson arrived in Southern California fresh out of South Dakota in the late 1940s, just in time to take...
By Will Silk Few in the realm of motorsports will deny that one of the most capable drivers to climb...
1988 Jaguar XJR9 & 1991 Jaguar XJR12 Almost all of Jaguar’s competition effort in the post-war period became directed at a single target, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It was an effort that was immensely successful, and having done it once, Jaguar waited for a period of years and...
Jaguar’s regal record in the world’s most prestigious sports car race was assembled over many years We may not automatically...
A Rogue, an XK120 and the World Record that Took 5 Years and Stirling Moss to Break. It was a...
Tom Walkinshaw began his racing career as just another youngster trying to find ways to indulge his passions, and by the time he stepped away he had amassed a number of championship titles for himself and his corporate partners, including Jaguar’s last two victories at Le Mans and their pair...
Mullin Automotive Museum – Worth the Trip from Anywhere Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor There are number...
Born in the Depression, Restored in a Recession, Delage D8S Gives New Meaning to Elegance Story by Philip Powell In...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped the junior grades of motor racing and went in at what we could safely call the “deep end.” He drove sports cars in America, then in Europe, moved to Grand...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer...
Everybody knows who Bobby Unser is. During his extensive racing career, the third of Mom and Pop Unser’s four race-driving...
And Then The Rains Came – The 1965 Sebring 12-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance Story by Louis Galanos. Black and white photos by Dave Nicholas and color photos by Walker Fricks, Jr. Whether driver, crew member, race official or spectator, no one who attended the 1965 running of the 12...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to...
Alfa Romeo had gone from zero to hero and beyond from the 1911 Targa Florio to the 1936 Mille Miglia....
Peter Gethin may have been the son of a jockey, but he pursued a different kind of horsepower, making his name racing automobiles. They weren’t just any automobiles either, but the fastest most prestigious racing cars in the world. He was a race winner in Formula 1 and the original...
Although Maserati had enjoyed competition success with its championship-winning 250F grand prix car, the Modenese company soon found itself in...
On 14 June 1970, Porsche claimed the first of what would become 16 overall victories in the world’s most prestigious...
BMW brought a tradition back to life when it lined up at the 78th staging of the Le Mans 24 Hours 2010 with an elaborately designed Art Car. American artist Jeff Koons’ BMW M3 GT2 Art Car really caught the eye in France. While the no. 78 BMW M3 GT2,...
Audi scored their ninth overall victory at the 78th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans after a fierce...
1973 Porsche Carrera RS This could be an opera in several parts. It might have been written by Verdi or...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a handful of companies that can trace their motor racing heritage back to the start of the 20th century. But Alfa’s is a kind of pear-shaped pedigree, in which the Italian...
