Right from the company’s beginnings in 1924, Chrysler built powerful and advanced automobiles. The B70 was a 70-mph car with...
Bruce Bromme Sr. was born in 1917, and shortly thereafter was thrust into the world of racing. His father,...
At last count there are more than 1,200 billionaires walking the Earth. This means that regardless of wealth, there aren’t nearly enough of Harry Miller’s fabulous racing machines to go around. How then does a semi-retired dump truck driver come to own two Millers? Mike Guffey loves stuff. He loves...
There I was, on Los Angeles’ Imperial Highway, helplessly hanging on in the passenger seat. No grab bar, no seatbelt,...
The photo caption on page 31 of the November 1953 issue of Road & Track read: “A strange assortment of...
The main thing about the 1953 race at Watkins Glen was the question of whether there would be a race at all. The previous year there had been a fatality on the 6.6-mile course that ran right through town on Franklin Street. The Austin-Healey 100 pace car leads the pack...
“For nearly a half-century, wherever Americans powered their way to automobile glory, whether on the two-and-a-half-mile Speedway at Indianapolis, the...
How many of you would journey 500 miles across country to race a freshly built car whose engine had never...
It happened again! Just like Phil (Bill Murray) in Groundhog Day, I go to sleep every night hoping that things will somehow be different come daylight. But they never are. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is...
Cliff Reuter and I suffer from codependency. The phone calling and emailing is incessant. I regularly disturb him while he’s...
Austrian born Karl Alberto Abarth did so many things so very well. He was a motorcycle racing champion, multiple land...
I suppose the first question one has to ask is how one defines greatness in a racing car. One of the most enjoyable racing cars I ever drove was the 1959 Ferrari 246. It was one of the last of the front-engined Grand Prix cars I drove, and each year...
I’ve been associated with many great racecars over the years, and for the most part Indycars. I’m particularly proud of...
An unabashed devotee of The Simpsons, Fred Phillips is living the slightly-north-of-American dream. Nestled away among the snow drifts of...
If you were going to build an 850-cc sports racer in the 1960s, which engine would you choose? Larry Kropp answered that question with a Deutsch Bonnet air-cooled two-cylinder, and to this day he remains steadfast that his decision was spot on. In the ’60s Kropp was a toolmaker living...
Deep inside Hunter Valley Wine Country of New South Wales (NSW) lives a very interesting automotive treasure-seeker. By day Aaron...
In all my career, the very best cars I ever drove were the 1986 Benetton B186-BMW and the 1987 Ferrari F1/87 V6. Both cars had the really big turbo power, the big rear wheels, and went like rockets. They were so fast they were nearly uncontrollable, but I liked those...
To be honest, I’ve had a lot of great racecars in my career and it’s very difficult to select just...
The Vintage Racing Club of British Columbia has announced that the 25th renewal of its British Columbia Historic Motor Races will take place on August 4–5 at Mission Raceway Park in Mission, BC, about an hour east of Vancouver. Since its inaugural running at the old Westwood circuit in Coquitlam,...
I know a lot of people have opinions of Peter Gregg, but I would like to offer an alternative view...
Sam Hanks may have been a quiet man who preferred to keep to himself, but at the wheel of a racing car he became a formidable force Between the two world wars, as Americans watched the Roaring Twenties tumble into the Great Depression and erode into the Dust Bowl, any...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
Alan Mann was a VR friend and subscriber with a penchant for sarcastic and very funny comments on things he read in our pages. He was also one of the most important and influential race preparation and team principals for many years, and it is very sad to have to...
Alessandro Zanardi is an inspiration to us all. Here is a double CART champion who lost both his legs in...
Five of these cars were built for racing in 1938—one uniquely for Le Mans—essentially derived from a road-going version of...
The first annual Algarve Classic Festival has been announced as the logical successor to the annual October historic race meeting at the five-year-old circuit in southern Portugal. Scheduled for October 18-21, the event will include such races as the Stirling Moss Trophy for pre-’61 sportscars and sports-racers, the Motor Racing...