Ferrari 250 SWB The combination of Stirling Moss and the Rob Walker Ferrari 250 SWB were near unstoppable in British...
BMW CSL In the world of production sedans – touring cars, as they are known in Europe – few if any...
Maserati 300S The modern era in motor racing began shortly after the end of WWII, when there was a huge leap in technological development and a serious shift toward racing becoming a professional sport. Ever since that time, now 50 years ago, enthusiasts and racers have argued nonstop about the...
MG-N Monoposto Back in late 1934, a rather proud and reasonably affluent father decided his son should have something special...
Have you ever sat in front of the television watching a beautifully filmed documentary about the archaeological wonders of Egypt,...
Sadler MkV Charles and John Cooper may have started the mid-engined revolution, but it was a maverick Canadian named Bill Sadler who carried the torch to the ranks of the big, whumpin’ V-8s. His ground-breaking 1961 Sadler MkV was the first of a species that would evolve into the thundering...
HRG was a very small British manufacturer of predominantly competition-oriented sports cars from 1936-1966 – the initials were drawn from...
European Editor Ed McDonough recently became the first person outside Team Lotus to drive one of the best kept secrets...
1972 Giannini Gruppo 2 Corse The story of Giannini is the tale of the Italian car tuners, the specialists who took many of the big manufacturers’ road-going products and changed them, modified them, raced them, sold them, and supplied accessories for them. Abarth was one of the great “tuners,” however...
1935 Maserati 4CS Photo: Peter Collins Ken Painter’s 1935 Maserati 4CS has had a highly active and dramatic existence, and...
1958 Lola Mk1 The Broadley cousins were racing enthusiasts from an early age. Both built and raced Austin specials before...
Alfa Romeo TZ2 By 1963, Alfa Romeo was looking for a replacement for their Giulietta SZ, which had been very successful in European racing and rallying. It had heralded Alfa’s first use of Girling front disc brakes and had seen inroads made in aerodynamic technology with efficient use of the...
1959 Lister Jaguar Few of the 30,000 spectators, bundled warmly against the biting wind, realized they were to witness the...
Porsche 356A Modern automobile manufacturers would tell you – if you ran the Porsche history past them without putting a...
Ferrari 512S In 1967, the 512 was born out of a series of bad decisions by racing’s ruling body, the CSI, that were aimed at slowing down the 7-liter monsters like the Ford Mk IVs, which were dominating sports car racing. So the prototype class had a 3-liter limit imposed...
Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica Sebring is a favorite race for underdogs. Who can forget Jim Hall’s Chaparral swimming down...
Miller “Burd Piston Ring Special” On December 9, 1875 an event occurred in Menomonie, Wisconsin, that would directly shape and...
When the first “Birdcage” Maseratis burst onto the world racing stage in 1959, a number of people were shocked and many laughed at their “strange” chassis, made up of hundreds of pieces of small tubing. A few dominant racing victories turned the nay-sayers around pretty quickly, and it was not...
Works Sunbeam Rapier As a 1960 Sunbeam Rapier drifted through long fast bends on the top of the Downs above...
1929 Bentley Blower 1929 Bentley Blower. This Profile may be forced to veer somewhat from our usual format since the...
1961 Ferrari 156 F1 Ricardo Rodriguez at the wheel of the Ferrari 156, during the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.Photo: Archives Trips Icon is probably an over-used word in automotive journalism, and modern commercialism has seen it applied to many automobiles which are clearly not icons – and sometimes...
Lotus 30 The Lotus 30 was built for all the wrong reasons. Colin Chapman designed it basically to get even...
Harris-Costin Protos F2 Many of the drivers who progressed through the standard single-seater stages of racing in Europe in the...
Hamilton/Rolt Jaguar C-Type Sit down with a pen and a piece of paper – write out a list of your 10 all-time favorite sports racing cars. Then do the same with road cars. After you have done that little task, pick the top three in each category and the one...
1971 Ferrari 312P Photo: Peter Collins Sports car enthusiasts with an historical bent argue three great periods of sports car...
Formula Junior was very much as it sounds, a junior category dreamed up by the Italian driver and race administrator...
Vanwall VW14 Vanwall is best remembered for becoming the first British racing car manufacturer to win a World Championship Grand Prix. The first wins came back in 1957 when Tony Brooks and Stirling Moss shared the winning car at the British Grand Prix at Aintree. Moss won again at Pescara...
1959 Abarth Allemano Spyder The Abarth Allemano Spyder is about as curiously 1950s Italian as you can get. Carlo Abarth,...
Cooper Mk IX 500-cc Stirling Moss, Peter Collins, Stuart Lewis-Evans, Graham Hill, Trevor Taylor, Les Leston, John Cooper – these...
1970 SCCA Porsche 914-6 For better, and sometimes for worse, corporate culture and business strategy have historically played a significant role in motorsport. Over the years, racecars and racing programs have been created and eliminated for no other reason than to satisfy marketing strategies and brand positioning. While many of...
