Cadillac is gonna do what?! I’m sure I’m not the only one who said that after hearing that Cadillac was...
American racing legend (and all-around nice guy) Dan Gurney was recently honored during the Wine Country Classic vintage race weekend...
Lee Petty, NASCAR’s first three-time champion and patriarch of the Petty racing dynasty, passed away on April 5th in Greensboro, North Carolina. Petty was 86 years old. Petty began his racing career in NASCAR’s inaugural 1949 season. He went on to win NASCAR championships in 1954, 1958 and 1959. Petty’s...
Phil Hill Created by the same organization which brought you last month’s Stirling Moss-featured web site, the site devoted to...
Laguna Seca, CA Apr. 1- 2 Charles Shalvoy hustles his 1926 Bugatti T39A through the famous corkscrew. Photo: Casey Annis...
June 2000 Strictly Off The Record By Louis T. Stanley Louis Stanley has taken a lifetime of privileged access in motor sports and brought it to the readers’ eyes, both with words and in pictures. He spent 20 years as chairman of the BRM Motor Racing Team, bringing them from...
Tom Wheatcroft is a man with a lot of energy and drive. Though in his seventies, he still goes to...
Jackie Stewart Skip Hudson 1 Indy car driver Tom Sneva is born (1948). 2 F1 and endurance racer Jan Lammers...
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...
The rain came down cold, heavy, unrelenting, and my lightweight sweater was instantly drenched through. By half distance I was...
Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Kent...
Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG) will host the Elva Reunion celebrating 45 years since the founding of Elva cars by Frank Nichols. The event will be held at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California, on November 27-29, 2000. All Elva cars are welcome and CSRG will include an all-Elva race,...
The heart-stopping Can-Am cars made by McLaren will take center stage at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, June 23-25...
Sonoma, CA Mar. 17-19 The 1973 Lola T-294 of Jamey Mazzota leads the 1974 Lola T-294 of Brad Krause. Photo:...
The supercharged 1936 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A “Botticella,” which Carlo Pintacuda raced in the 1936 Mille Miglia and won the Sao Paulo Grand Prix with, will go on the auction block at the Brooks’ Monterey Auction, Aug. 19, 2000. This car’s virtually uninterrupted history should make it a very desirsable...
It is race day, and the racing machine is sorted out and in a highly competitive state of tune. What...
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Silverstone, England Mar. 25 Nick Mason and his 1959 Maserati Tipo 61 “Bircage.” Photo: Classic Images Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to...
Ferrari had a way with the small-bore cars. The 166 Barchetta, the TRC, the 196 S Dino, the 206 SP –...
Thanks to the Ice Age, we were given the Bonneville Salt Flats upon which thousands of land speed racers have...
How much “stuff” is enough? A seemingly simple question that historically has never been easy to answer. If you look back through the entire expanse of human history, this same question rears its homely countenance time and time again. Take the Romans for instance, they never seemed to have enough...
Roebling Road, GA Mar. 31- Apr. 2 Michael Scott, in his 1953 Allard J2X, fends off Ceasar Cone in his...
The strange story of Enzo Ferrari and his date with a firing squad has recently surfaced in Italy. Clearing out...