The Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ driven by Giampiero Biscaldi and Giancarlo Sala at the 1964 24 Hours of Le Mans....
The Shelby American Team car driven by Dan Gurney and Bob Johnson, at the 1964 12 Hours of Sebring. With...
The Daytona Continental (2000-km), Daytona, February 16, 1964 The grid is ready to go, in pit lane, for the rolling start. On pole is the Cobra Daytona Coupe driven by Bob Holbert and Dave McDonald, while next to it is another Shelby American entry, the Cobra driven by Tommy Hitchcock,...
The Maranello Concessionaires 250 LM driven by Graham Hill and Joachim Bonnier won the 1964 12 Hours of Reims. A...
Modena Aerautodromo, December 21, 1964 Initial shakedown test of Count Volpi’s Serenissima mid-engined V8 GT car, which featured a bespoke...
The Scuderia Filipinetti Ford GT40 Mk I – driven by Peter Sutcliffe and Dieter Spoerry – from the 1966 24 hours of Le Mans. It failed to finish the race due to an accident on lap 233. A trio of more powerful Mk II GT40s famously won the race that...
1966 24 Hours of Le Mans The iconic finish of the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans – Ford crosses...
No racing car exemplified and exploited the admirable freedom of the Can-Am series rules more than the 1966 Chaparral 2E....
The Tourist Trophy; Oulton Park; April 29, 1966 Jack Brabham with the one-off Brabham BT17, a kind of enlarged BT8 fitted with a 4.3-liter Repco V8 engine. An interesting car, but it was not a success. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTIONPO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA., Tel: (203)...
The David Piper driven Ferrari 412 P, in Ecurie Francorchamps’s livery (Belgian national racing team), as raced at the 1968...
The Sebring 12 Hours; Sebring, Florida; April 1, 1967 On the grid before the start is one of two factory...
1968 Porsche 908 LH (long-tail) The number 64 Porsche 908, driven by Hans Herrmann and Gérard Larrousse, won the prototype class in the 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans, and took second place overall, behind Jacky Ickx and the Gulf Ford GT40. Arthur Schening is a freelance graphic designer and...
1970 Alfa Romeo GTAm Autodelta built around 40 examples of the GTAm (Alleggerita Maggiorata – “lightened enlarged”), with 1750 and...
The Monaco Grand Prix; Monte Carlo; May 10, 1970 After the start and up St. Devote hill to Casino Square....
A special class of 1970 Muscle Cars will celebrate the pinnacle of Detroit’s fast and loud Muscle Car era at the 26th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance on May 23, 2021. The first wave of Baby Boomers was graduating from college, America was winning the Space Race and high-octane gasoline...
The Toad Hall Racing Porsche 911 S/T as driven by Jürgen Barth and Michael Keyser at the 1972 1000km Nürburgring...
The United States Grand Prix; Watkins Glen; October 10, 1973 Emerson Fittipaldi, in his Lotus 72, qualified well, but was...
In 1977, Porsche’s “improvised” Type 936/77 took on the full-court press of four Renaults at Le Mans. Retirements and technical troubles suggested that winning was out of the question. But neither its drivers nor Porsche number 4 believed that. [dropcap]A[/dropcap]gainst strong opposition from Alpine-Renault and Alfa Romeo, Porsche took the...
The Le Mans 24 Hours; Le Mans, France, June 19–20, 1982 The start. Porsches in the ascendance, with Jacky Ickx...
The Brazilian Grand Prix at Jacarepagua, March 13, 1983. Nelson Piquet sits in his Brabham BT52-BMW before practice with teammate...
I went to Daytona the year Dan Gurney’s All American Racers /Toyota GTP won the race, their first Daytona 24 Hr victory for both, the team and Toyota. The dawn scene at the International Horseshoe hairpin shows the winning Eagle GTP of Rocky Moran, PJ Jones and Mark Dismore followed...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World...
Historic Photographs As a supplier of rare period photography to VRJ, Ferret Fotographics offers prints from its 1.5 million negative collection spanning all types of racing from 1930 to 1990. If you are in search of that impossible to find car or shot, chances are good Ferret Fotographics will likely...
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Organizers of the FIA Lurani Trophy for Formula Juniors have announced that they are canceling the 2020 championship due to...
With 400 vintage cars, thirty less than last year, in order to ensure greater safety and quality of service to the crews in the race, the 1000 Miglia will leave from Brescia on Wednesday May 13th and return on Saturday 16th, after running through Cervia-Milano Marittima, Rome and Parma, passing...
Organizers of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion have announced today that this year’s event will now be canceled due to...
Editor Casey Annis selects some of his favorite 2020 book choices for the automotive enthusiast. Shadow—The Magnificent Machines of a...
GPS Classic, organizers of the Alfa Revival Cup, have announced the 2021 resumption of the historic Alfa Romeo racing series starting in May. The new 2021 schedule will include: May 29/30 – Autodromo Nazionale Monza June 19/20 – Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli July 17/18 – Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi...