Thinking about buying a Jaguar XK8 or XKR? We’ve put together a complete buying guide with all the information you...
Story by Louis Galanos | Photos as credited By March of 1961 the controversy surrounding the poorly reviewed 1960 Sebring...
By Art Evans What do you think was the toughest and most difficult race ever? After reading my September 2011 history column, you might say the New York to Paris. Then there was the 1950-54 La Carrera Panamericana. But these were short-lived point-to-point contests. How about a closed circuit race?...
1971 Datsun 240Z Photo: Peter Collins The aristocratically named Giuliano Musumeci rather boxy machines called the Cedric, believing these would...
When Chevrolet brought its first two-seat Corvette to the New York Auto Show in 1953, no one could imagine that...
With its revised and corrected rear suspension, the car is a blast to drive especially when steered with the throttle. Photo: Dennis Gray The Sunbeam Tiger is a car well-known to enthusiasts. European cars with powerful American V8s are intriguing. Most of the time these Euro-American hybrids came with high-end, sexy...
Ever since the first automobiles span their wheels on the roads and the first planes gave humans the ability to...
1991 Toyota Eagle MKIII GTP It’s amazing how one hair-brained idea can change the course of history. Such was the...
1964 Cooper–Maserati T61P By the time Roy Salvadori chased Bruce McLaren to the checkered flag at the Daily Express International Trophy meeting at Silverstone on May 2, 1964, sports car racing had already begun to change significantly. Roger Penske often gets the credit—or the blame—for what led to the real...
In the 1950s, Britain struggled to find its place in Formula One racing. Fed up with BRM’s attempt, Tony Vandervell...
Mario Umberto “Baconìn” Borzacchini, at the wheel of a Maserati Tipo V4, set the world land speed record for the...
By Dennis Gray and Peter Giddings | Photos by Dennis Gray This 1926 Delage Grand Prix 15-S-8, better known as Dick Seaman’s “Black Delage”, is now garaged in California, having been recently rebuilt to period specifications. As a ten-year-old Grand Prix car the Delage, chassis #4, was driven to victory...
By Tim Scott It all started in the 1970s. My passion for cars as a kid was absolute and completely...
By Edward Lenahan This 1961 Chevrolet Corvette factory race car, soon to be auctioned at Mecum’s January 24-29, 2012 Kissimmee Florida event, possesses a host of rare options and a provenance worthy of the velvet rope treatment at any of the world’s finest auto museums or vintage races. Gulf Oil...
On 19 June 1927, Rudolf Caracciola won the inaugural race for sports cars at the Nürburgring in a Mercedes-Benz Model...
The Porsche 911 Carrera RS is considered by many to be the greatest 911 of all time. Using the standard...
By Leigh Dorrington World Rally Champion Sebastian Ogier’s victory in the 2014 Monte Carlo Rally in a Volkswagen Polo R was Ogier’s first at Monte Carlo and the first for Volkswagen. First victories in the world’s oldest and most famous rally have lifted countless drivers to prominence—and presaged record-breaking motorsport...
It seems almost unbelievable that an example of one of the great pre-war cars, a straight eight supercharged Alfa Romeo...
Porsche will challenge the 2017 racing season with a newly-developed GT racer that features a mid-engined layout. The new 911...
History of the Indianapolis 500 – Part Two (See History of the Indianapolis 500 – Part One) By Leigh Dorrington The first Indianapolis 500 in 1911, won by Ray Harroun on the Indianapolis-built Marmon ‘Wasp’, began one of the longest sporting traditions in the world. And soon the whole world...
Gracing the cover of Griot’s Garage Handbook #271 are two amazing Italian machines: A 1934 Alfa Romeo Typo P3, and...
By Art Evans I was saddened to learn that Pete Lovely died on May 16, 2011. He was a wonderful...
Key body parts for the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL ‘Gullwing’ (W 198) are again available in factory quality, ordered by their part number from any Mercedes-Benz sales partner. The production process combines state-of-the-art technology with traditional craftsmanship, guaranteeing a high accuracy of fit of the metal parts while minimising the need...
The Targa Florio was the decisive contest in the 1955 World Sports Car Championship. Under tremendous pressure to succeed at...
Girardo and Co. is offering for sale the Ferrari 512 S originally owned and raced by the Scuderia Ferrari in...
Maserati is celebrating 50 years of the Bora, their first mid-mounted rear engine road car with four-wheel independent suspension, which was built between 1971 to 1978. On March 11, 1971, the Maserati Bora made its debut at the Geneva International Motor Show. From then until 1978, Maserati constructed 564 units in...
Argentine racing driver Jose Froilan Gonzalez passed away June 15th, 2013 at the age of ninety in his native Buenos...
1940 BMW 328 MM “Berlin-Rome” Touring Roadster The author puts the 328 MM Roadster through its paces at BMW’s Spartanburg,...
By William Edgar | Photographs as Credited It was July 19, 1974 that I really got to know John Young Stewart, even though I’d already met and worked with him several years before that British Grand Prix Friday practice day riding with him in a chauffeured Daimler out to Brands...
