Vintage Racecar Features
1962 Lotus 25 Formula 1 Race Car The top drawer of sporting history’s filing cabinet is open only to the...
ex-Phil Hill 1963 ATS F1 The 1961 Formula One World Champion Phil Hill did not learn that most of the important people in the Ferrari team had left Modena until he had signed a contract to drive again for the Scuderia in 1962. The racing world was shocked when it heard...
An opportunistic mix of Group 5 endurance racers and Group 7 thundercars enlivened Watkins Glen’s 1970 Can-Am Text and Photos...
The more in-depth summaries of the life and career of Phil Hill have focussed on three significant aspects: the racing...
In 2001, our Ed McDonough spoke with Phil Hill about his championship year in Formula One and the oftentimes challenging politics of racing for Ferrari in the ’60s. In remembrance of Hill and his achievement, we reproduce that interview here, which first appeared in VR in our September 2001 issue....
12/6/08 Update: We sold the Alfa back to the person that sold it to us. He was very happy to...
Driver, team owner and motorsports legend Roger Penske joined racers Pete Lovely, Wayne Rainey, Bobby Rahal, Dan Gurney, Eddie Lawson...
Given the legends arising from recent history, one might suspect that motor racing in Argentina began with Juan Manuel Fangio in a 1939 Chevrolet. In fact, the country’s competition heritage is far, far older. The first race, between two motor tricycles, took place June 4th, 1899. The next, in 1901,...
1960 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster For Sale Details: Seller Fantasy Junction is asking $595,000. Car is located in San Francisco Bay...
1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” Across the annals of automotive history, few families can lay claim to more engineering genius...
Al Stein’s Valvoline Twin Special Hanging on the wall of an auto body repair shop in Berkeley, California, is an aluminum body panel, still with the original paint scheme and the words “Valvoline Twin Special” lettered on one side. It is all that remains of Al Stein’s dream car. Stein...
Formula Atlantic celebrates its 35th season in 2008, standing as the second oldest training category in the world, behind only...
Motorsports lost another great ambassador, as Paul Newman died Friday, September 26th of cancer at his home in Westport, Connecticut....
The Iso Rivolta Daytona was similar in concept to the Giotto Bizzarrini-designed Iso Grifo and was conceived as a dual purpose race car that could also be used on the street. It was designed with racing as its primary function. The sophisticated chassis, lightweight aluminum body and powerful American V8...
Toyota was the title sponsor of the 35th Monterey Historic Automobile Races. To honor the sponsorship, Toyota brought four historic...
Vincenzo Lancia did not invent the motorcar, nor was he a pioneer who struggled to make a gasoline engine run...
Imagine what it was like for Eric Broadley to have come up with the T70 coupe after the heady days of his venture with Ford. The Ford program had earned the company some money and provided the impetus to develop the T70 in both coupe and open form. The T70...
Karl Abarth was a magician. A waver of wands whose magic brought the exquisite pleasure of higher-performance motoring and motor...
The French, two-time Can-Am champion and former Ferrari F1 driver speaks with Nasir Hameed about his early days, his time...
It is with great regret that we report racing great Phil Hill passed away this morning, August 28th, due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. Philip Toll Hill Jr., (1927 – 2008) is the only American-born driver to win the Formula One driving championship....
1959 OSCA | 1960 Lotus 18 | 1963 Brabham BT6 Regular readers of VR will know that we have a fondness for...
Photo: Dennis Gray If you’ve ever attended the Monterey Historics, the Wine Country Classic, a Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG),...
I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person, to date, to be so honored by the Monterey Historics. A weekend packed with his cars, his victories, and a reenactment, as far as it was possible, of his glorious...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna...
British racer Trevor Taylor is perhaps best known for being the Lotus Formula One teammate to Jim Clark in the...
Officine Specializzate Costruzioni Automobili – Fratelli Maserati SpA, established 1947 in Bologna, was an Italian brand of sports car automobiles, usually abbreviated to O.S.C.A. or OSCA. It was founded by Ernesto and his two brothers Ettore, and Bindo Maserati. The brothers left Maserati after their ten-year contract with Adolfo Orsi...
1934 ERA A-Type Prototype Single-Seater Racing Voiturette Profile Ex-works/Raymond Mays/Humphrey Cook/Richard Seaman/Tim Rose-Richards/Oliver Bertram/Prinz zu Leiningen/Mrs Kay Petre/The Hon. Brian...
The Ferrari 312 B2 Formula 1 car was first raced in 1971, a development of the 312B. With notably different rear suspension...
The 1970 Canadian-American Challenge Cup season was the fifth season of the Can-Am auto racing series. The season began only a few days after the death of defending champion Bruce McLaren. McLaren had been testing the new M8D for his Can-Am team when he was killed. The team would continue...
