1971 Tyrrell 002 His friends and racing opponents in F3 called him “Chopper,” not because of his on-track driving style...
Ex-Scuderia Filipinetti 1968 L-88 Corvette As the only sports car model to be in continuous production for more than 50...
Lancia D50 VRJ European Editor Ed McDonough recently became the first journalist to seriously test a D50 of any type, original or recreation, and had many laps at a Silverstone test session in one of the most beautiful and charismatic of the all-time classics. In late May 1955, many newspapers...
1964 ALFA ROMEO GIULIA Ti SUPER Not too long ago, I had the chance to take part in one of...
1967 Lola T70 Spyder 1967 Lola T70 Spyder. Photo: Casey Annis The names Roger Penske and Mark Donohue are almost...
1910 LANCIA TIPO DA CORSA CHASSIS 307 A little earlier this year (VRJ, Sept. 2002), we had the exceptionally rare pleasure of not only testing but competing in the iconic Lancia D50 Grand Prix car. Clearly, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime affairs. Such is the keen enthusiasm of some Lancia...
1964 Porsche Bergspyder In the current era of Grand Prix and sports car racing, there is virtually no such thing...
1936 Alfa Romeo 2900A Mille Miglia Photo: Peter Collins The Alfa cockpit has a number of refined details for a...
1975 Eagle 755 F5000 Photo: Casey Annis In 1967, the SCCA began a fledgling “professional” category for open-wheel formula cars known as Formula A. The idea was to provide a series of five races, open to F3, F2 and 3-liter F1 cars, with each race having its own $5,000 purse....
1968 Fiat-Abarth 1000 TCR Variations on a theme – that’s the one-liner which always comes to mind when encountering an...
Ex-Essex Wire 1965 Ford GT40 #1010 One hundred years of Ford! Where do you start? There are far too many...
1968 Lotus 49 – Cosworth DFV Chassis 49/R4 There are few racing cars which have the reputation of scaring the living daylights out of the entire opposition. Pre-war there was the Auto Union and the Mercedes-Benz W163. After the war came the all-conquering Alfa Romeo ‘Alfetta’ 158 and 159, the...
1958 Devin D Porsche Across the southern hills of the Dolomite Mountains of Italy, north of a line drawn between...
1984 Lancia LC2 Twenty years ago, when Group C sports car racing was in its heyday, the focus of attention...
1956 Ferrari 500 TR Prototype I have to confess that we sometimes get very carried away by some of the machinery we get to examine and test. We even have some degree of conflict about not being able to more frequently feature more down-to-earth and historic cars. It’s not that...
1962 Lotus 22 Photo: Casey Annis Although current CART drivers Adrian Fernandez and Michel Jourdain might want to argue with...
The Grand Prix Alfa Romeo: Alfetta 158/159 Alfa Romeo Alfetta 158/159. Photo: Peter Collins As a long-term Alfa “person,” I...
1971 Datsun 240Z Photo: Peter Collins The aristocratically named Giuliano Musumeci rather boxy machines called the Cedric, believing these would Greco is the president of Nissan Italia, and for five sun-filled days, he and Nissan Italia’s general manager, Alessandro Cacciotti, guided the Datsun 240Z rally car round the coast of...
Ex-Coppa Florio 1907 Wolsit Factory Racer A little-known aspect of the history of the British Wolseley firm was its Italian...
1959 Old Yeller Mk II As with so many of the great racecars and specials of the ’50s, the success and genesis of the famed Old Yellers rests with a single talented individual, Max Balchowsky—or more properly, Max and his wife Ina. Max Balchowsky was born on January 15, 1924...
The Qvale Sebring MGBs By 1959, the MG Car Company was looking to update the somewhat dated and underpowered MGA...
1967 Ferrari 312 Chassis 0007 After the smaller 1.5-liter Grand Prix cars of 1961–’65, the return to a larger engine...
1971 Tecno F2 The brothers Pederzani—Gianfranco and Luciano—ran a hydraulic pump company in Bologna. In 1962, they started up a second company to manufacture racing karts, known as Tecnokarts. Amazingly, within ten years they constructed and ran an F1 car—some people would later say that they should have stuck to...
Clever people, the organisers of the Le Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans. The annual 24-hour race at Le Mans has been...
1965 Shelby GT350R When Ford introduced the first Mustang to the American public in 1964, the company knew it had...
LYNX 1963 LOW-DRAG E-TYPE In the Indian summer of 1961, Wolfgang von Trips was killed at Monza in the Ferrari Sharknose, and an American college student—a Trips fan—made a gesture about driving fast cars to mark his passing. He swapped his first car, a Fiat 1100 sedan, for the first...
1967 BRM H-16 The author opens the H-16 up on the banking of England’s Rockingham Motor Speedway. Photo: Peter Collins...
Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/3 It’s a bit of a euphemism to say that cars have personalities… of course they don’t....
1955 Austin-Healey 100S It was as black as the inside of a coalmine as we left the comfort of the Cadillac back at the roadside. My friend, Alan, and I had been staying with friends in Oregon in 1975 when, over a very passable glass of Californian red, the subject...