Best of 2001 Photo: Walt Pietrowicz Photo: Jim Williams Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
1959 Abarth Allemano Spyder The Abarth Allemano Spyder is about as curiously 1950s Italian as you can get. Carlo Abarth,...
Duncan Hamilton Jeff Andretti 1 Moises Solana wins the USRRC race in Mexico City, Mexico (1968). 2 Motorcycle and F1 racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born (1940). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to...
April 2002 The Fabulous Fifties—Sports Car Races in Southern California By Art Evans In the first line of this book’s...
The International Motor Racing Research Library at Watkins Glen has recently announced the appointment of Michael Rand as its new...
You may recall that last year we brought you the bizarre saga of the lost Daytona Coupe, CSX2287. One of eight Daytona Coupes built by Carrol Shelby, CSX2287 raced at Le Mans and Daytona, finished first in class at the 1964 12-Hours of Sebring and set 23 national and international...
Paddy Hopkirk’s name is almost synonymous with the rise of the rallying Mini Cooper. His win in the Monte Carlo...
The collective classic car community held its breath in anticipation of this past January’s Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction in Scottsdale,...
Is Renault French? Is the Pope a Catholic? I ask because Renault has bought the Benetton team and has renamed it, but the team’s headquarters is at Enstone in Oxfordshire and most of the employees are British. Benetton began life as Toleman, which was British. Benetton continued to be British...
Apparently the new Euro is a success. Friends from overseas tell me the changeover to a single, common currency in...
Dr. Guiseppe Farina—we also know him as “Nino,” “Il Dottore,” “The Great Farina” and countless unmentionable names used by competitors...
The U.S. racing community was deeply saddened recently to learn of the passing away of racer, team owner and USAC founding father Bob Estes. Born Robert Stewart Evans in Los Angeles on Sept. 21, 1913, Bob Estes devoted more than 60 years of his life to the automobile and racing....
Stock car icon Dale Earnhardt, two-time Indy 500 champion Gordon Johncock, sports car and F5000 legend Brian Redman and pioneering...
Targa Florio – The Ultimate Guide The Norman conquest of southern Italy led to the creation of the Kingdom of...
There’s a fantastic trend building on the Internet: it is individuals creating Web sites to showcase their old amateur racing photography. While the photos are not always of “professional” quality, they oftentimes reveal interesting historical tidbits, overlooked by the professionals of the time. This month’s featured site is one of...
While you may not yet realize it, the historic racing community has lost one of its greatest champions. By the...
In the first of a two-part series, Robert Newman explores the amazing life and career of “The Flying Mantuan” –...
Prices – Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Kent Bain Vintage Racing Services (203) 377-1658 Jack Boxstrom RM Auctions (613) 476-9132 Lance Coren Certified Appraiser (310) 370-4114 Bruce Trennery Fantasy Junction (510) 653-7555 These prices are suggested...