A 30-year reunion of the participants and fans of what is believed to be the only “Dead Heat” in Road...
Even before the start, the pole-setting car was out of the race. In qualifying for the September 5th Woodcote Trophy...
The world may be in an economic downturn, but there wasn’t much sign of that at the 2009 edition of the Festival of Speed “garden party” held in the grounds of Goodwood House in West Sussex. Sponsors may have tightened their belts, but the paying public had prebooked in record...
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The lunacy of automotive collecting has no bounds. My personal journey has taken me from Italian coach-builts to vintage racecars to French Panhard and Deutsch Bonnet and, most recently, hot rods. And all along the way I’ve been collecting literature in psychopathic quantities; if my house caught fire, you could...
The story of Chet Herbert is pure inspiration. Afflicted with polio at age 20, Herbert spent his life building a...
Much like the animal it was named for, the precise origin of the Unicorn H-Modified sports racer remains a mystery....
The 7th running of the fall races at Watkins Glen, N.Y., was held at the Interim Course, a 4.6-mile, 9-turn circuit on public roads, up the hill from the village, in Dix Township—the second year for that course. People would later call it “the course on the hill.” It was...
Don Blenderman is koo-koo for Kurtis cars. And why not? Frank Kurtis is arguably the greatest American racecar builder of...
In my book Vintage American Road Racing Cars, I wrote, “Of all the Kurtis road racing cars, the 500X is...
This exquisitely done painting depicts Juan Manuel Fangio, the five-time Formula One World Champion, finishing 5th in the 1956 Mille Miglia with the factory Ferrari 290MM. During the race he was delayed by carburetion problems, and further exasperated by the cold and persistent rain, all of which made the event...
George Valerio of Lincoln, California, has been hunting cars for as long as he can remember. Yes, it’s the way...
Following the vast destruction of WW II, exciting new sports cars emerged from the rubble, which was just what the...
Vince di Pierro knows what he likes. So much so that four years ago he sank more than $100,000 into a car he spotted at an auction; a car he knew absolutely nothing about. According to Di Pierro, “I used to go to these auctions run by the state of...
Since the doors opened in 1924, the MG Car Company of Great Britain has been producing interesting and innovative automobiles....
Road racing in America started just after World War II and rapidly grew into a phenomenon. While many of the...
Ever wonder what it must’ve been like way back when during those early shade-tree mechanic days when racers would vanish into their garage and emerge months later with a car of their own design? Building a racing special in the ’50s was one thing, but by the time the Can-Am...
I have driven numerous racing cars over my 30 years and many eras of motor sport. I drove in several...
By 1969 Formula Vee had become the most popular racing class on the planet. The cars were relatively economical to...
I have been asked, a number of times, which branch of motor sport I enjoyed the most: driving, management, or loosely speaking designing, as my career has encompassed most of those disciplines. Although cars have raced bearing my name, I cannot really take any responsibility for their design; it was...
When drivers are asked about their greatest racecar, many look at cars that have won races or given them great...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
The Automobile Club de Monaco has announced that the seventh Grand Prix Monaco Historique has been scheduled for May 8–9, 2010. The event will precede the 68th Grand Prix de Monaco by two weeks in order to allow both groups ample time to access the paddock area of the circuit...
Breaking with the tradition that awards the Vintage Collier Cup to an MG racer selected by a vote of his...
The Bentley Drivers Club will celebrate six decades of racing at Silverstone with an unprecedented two-day meeting on August 8-9....
Contrary to what many may believe, the first time I drove a Porsche 917 was when I first sat in one to qualify for the 1969 Le Mans 24 Hours. There were three 917s entered for the race: the privately owned John Woolfe car, the Rolf Stommelen/Kurt Ahrens car, and...
No one reveres their heroes like the Brits (well, maybe the Italians). Whether it’s a perpetual race winner like Stirling...
The J. Frank Harrison story Given today’s racing environment with its multi-million-dollar corporate budgets, it can be hard to imagine...
When Formula Junior came to the UK shores, to replace the now out-dated 500-cc Formula Three racing, I felt that it was time to build a single-seater chassis for myself. It was at the same time I had decided to leave my £18-a-week job at Rotax and set up my...