The American Le Mans Series starts their season on Saturday, March 21st with the 57th running of America’s premier sports...
Vintage Racecar Features
A Race To Remember – Recollections of 1970 12 Hours of Sebring By Louis Galanos In 1970 my fiancé and...
When Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche unveiled the Porsche 917 at the Geneva International Motor Show on March 13, 1969, little did we know that it would become one of the most successful and famous sports racing cars of all time. Not only did the race car give Porsche its first 24...
Our recent 1967 24 Hours of Daytona Photo Gallery continues to be a very popular story, as it featured great...
1953 Austin-Healey 100 Is this the ideal sports car of the 1950s? The car that sparked thousands of people into...
The J. Frank Harrison story Given today’s racing environment with its multi-million-dollar corporate budgets, it can be hard to imagine a time when private individuals paid these expenses. Wealthy enthusiasts such as Lindsey Hopkins (a Florida investment banker), John Edgar (a California industrialist), Joe Lubin (a California tractor parts dealer),...
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance...
This 1937 Bentley 4 1/4 Liter Fixed Head Sport Coupe sold for $1,320,000 at the 2009 Gooding and Company Scottsdale...
“Design is what sets a vehicle apart, what separates a good car from a great car. It is what creates enthusiasm for the automobile, what sparks an emotional bond between car and customer. And it is the reason that the automobile inspires a passion among consumers like no other product,...
Bitter from multiple sports car racing defeats at the hands of the potent Ford GT40 in 1966, Ferrari was determined...
Pegaso was an established company noted for its trucks and motor coaches, but also produced sports cars for seven years. Pegaso...
The new Porsche Museum, located in the heart of the Porsche factory in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany, officially opened to the public on Saturday, January 31, 2009. The museum features 60,250 square feet (5,600 sq meters) of exhibition space designed entirely in white, ample space for approximately 80 historic vehicles and more...
Artcurial is offering a Matra MS650 (s/n 01) at its 2009 Classic and Racing Cars auction on Sunday, February 8th...
RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, will offer this stunning 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa (Chassis # 0714TR) when the...
This 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Alloy Competizione did not sell at the high bid of $4,400,000 during the Gooding & Company “Scottsdale Auction” held January 17th in Scottsdale, Arizona. In the summer months of 1959, after completing the last 13 examples of the venerable 250 Tour de France models,...
By Paul Chenard, Racing History Collector and Illustrator I’ve been collecting vintage toys since 1982. I started slowly and methodically, partly for...
1967 Brabham BT24-Repco Sometimes all your birthdays and Christmases come at once. Shaking down the BT24 on Australia’s legendary Phillip...
In our annual special devoted to the latest trends and developments in personal safety gear we examine: • The Future of Helmets—The new Snell 2010 standard will change the way you buy helmets. • Necksavers—The latest developments in SFI-approved head and neck restraint systems. • Racing Suit Buyers Guide—More than...
At the tender age of 15, John Fenning started his racing career competing in small, 500-cc racecars, like many postwar...
Frazer Nash has the distinction of being the only British car ever to win the Sicilian Targa Florio. This was...
The 47th running of the 24 Hours of Daytona will take place January 24-25 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. The 24 Hours of Daytona is a 24-hour sports car endurance race held annually on the 3.56-mile combined road course, utilizing portions of the NASCAR tri-oval and an infield road course. Since its...
“Barn finds, rally cars and needles in the haystack” is the very fitting tag line for one of our favorite...
This distinctive early Ferrari Spider has bodywork...
1968 Lolita MkI & the 1969 Lolita MkII My first car was a British Motor Corporation Mini. I had just turned 17 and, with $200 burning a hole in my pocket, I just had to have a car. I didn’t need one, of course, but fired with the impetuosity of youth...
After church one Sunday in 1957, a 13-year-old Philadelphia boy named Tom Pomeroy was playing with some of his friends,...
For the 1974 season, Porsche produced yet another evolution of the 911. Developed around the 3-litre RS homologation special, the 3-litre RSR became the most successful Group 4 car of its era. In its early years, the RSR swept all before it in IMSA, Trans Am and the FIA World...
By Greg Wing What is it about things being small and going unnoticed? The three French team Deutsch-Bonnet Panhards that...
This Talbot-Lago sold for £312,500 at RM Auctions’ Automobiles of London auction held October 29th at the Battersea Evolution in...
Not for the first time, one of motor sport’s most successful cars was a huge flop when it made its debut. In this case, it was the Bugatti Tipo 35, six of which were driven on the public roads from Molsheim to Lyons in late July 1924, to compete in...
