In 1977, Porsche’s “improvised” Type 936/77 took on the full-court press of four Renaults at Le Mans. Retirements and technical...
My wife made an offer on a house in New Zealand while vacationing there with her family a few years...
After ending his agreement with Alfa Romeo in 1939, Enzo Ferrari faced significant struggles in establishing his own race team and automobile company. Due to a contractual agreement with Alfa Romeo, he couldn’t use his name in association with racing for four years, leading him to found Auto Avio Costruzioni...
“Who painted this D-Type red?” was my thought when I first laid eyes on this legendary machine. Most of the...
A tiny red car is mixing it up at the Monterey Historic Races with 356 Porsches, Morgans, Corvettes, Lotuses and...
During the late ’50s and early ’60s American racers were doing battle in a wide variety of homebuilt racecars and Specials. Taking production car engines and chassis and creating their own unique take on a competition car. They may have been quick, but many had a look only a mother...
1969 Rennmax BN3Photo: Ian Welsh It can’t be denied that the world of motor racing, both contemporary and historic, is...
All right, I suppose I should start off with a confession. I am a mad, keen Austin-Healey enthusiast, and have...
Cartainers, a pioneering force in state-of-the-art automotive display and storage solutions, is launching a limited production series of exclusive containers made for fine collectible and exotic automobiles. Created as a no-compromise solution for car collectors, the new Ceres 001 Founders Edition design from Cartainers presents an incredible way of displaying...
The iconic 300 SL Roadster needs no introduction, as it is one of the most coveted and revered sports cars...
Bugatti’s rich lineage of open-top performance icons is revered the world over. Influenced by a standard of engineering that pushes...
This past weekend saw the 100th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and an exciting showdown between the Hypercars of Toyota and Ferrari. In the end, an incident for the leading Toyota (2 hours from the finish) sealed their fate, resulting in Ferrari’s first overall win at Le...
Retrospect from 1949 to 2023 Having just conquered the most prestigious challenge in endurance racing, Ferrari’s overall win at the...
3 Penske Racing debuts their AMC-powered F5000 Lola T330 in the L&M Continental Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course...
Young Timers Garage have announced the purchase of Elfin Sports Cars, a historic race car turned road car manufacturer founded in 1959. Elfin had previously sat dormant under the ownership of the Walkinshaw trust since manufacturing of the brand’s latest model, the Type 5, was abandoned a decade ago. YTG...
The Toad Hall Racing Porsche 911 S/T as driven by Jürgen Barth and Michael Keyser at the 1972 1000km Nürburgring...
The son of a wealthy Tennessee family, Pete Kreis had grown up during the time that European manufacturers dominated automobile...
The British Sports Car Hal of Fame (BSCHoF) has just released its newest list of inductees for 2023. BSCHoF President Gary Kincel said, “Once again, this years’ selections for induction into the British Sports Car Hall of Fame have all made significant contributions to the history and legacy of the...
This past weekend my younger daughter turned 21 and during a brief lull between morning Mimosas and evening Margaritas, she...
Recently, my family and I had to venture back to Scotland for a funeral, which was sad, but we decided...
The Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance-–the world’s longest continually running concours–has announced it will pay a special tribute to the collector car world’s most exceptional sports cars during festivities on June 25 at Crystal Springs Golf Course in Burlingame. “Given the profound impact that sports cars have had on the automotive landscape and...
1 Danny Ongais drives a Porsche 934 to victory in the 100-mile IMSA sports car race at Laguna Seca Raceway...
On May 9th, 1992, Roberto Guerrero earned the pole position for the 76th running of the Indianapolis 500-mile race. Piloting...
1966 24 Hours of Le Mans The iconic finish of the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans – Ford crosses the finish line and takes the chequered flag. The number 2 Shelby American Ford GT40 Mk II driven by Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon, and the number 1 Shelby American...
This Hustler is not an unsavory men’s magazine, nor is it Jackie Gleason playing a pool shark, nor a con...
The lightest and most powerful series-production McLaren, the new V8-engined, rear-wheel drive 750S – which is available in coupe and...
The car hobby has many tropes, but one of the more common — and perhaps most accurate — is that our favored pastime is a disease, an incurable affliction. And as a corollary to that disease, we often further describe it as a “madness”. But perhaps nowhere is this description...
The Sebring 12 Hours; Sebring, Florida; April 1, 1967 On the grid before the start is one of two factory...
This past weekend I made the annual pilgrimage to the Long Beach Grand Prix. This year was the event’s 48th...
When the Bugatti Bolide was first revealed as a thought experiment in late 2020, it presented a vision of a lightweight, track-only hyper sports car delivering incomparable performance, built around the iconic W16 engine. That ambitious dream is being transformed into reality, as the Bolide prototype begins its next phase...
