American Amy Lerner and her co-driver Sara Bossaert, of Barcelona, Spain crossed the finish line of the 2022 Dakar Rally...
In the 1950s, home-made, one-off sports cars were being created everywhere across the country, the majority of them emerging from...
The 1965 Shelby GT350R Prototype driven by Ken Miles sold for $3.75 million at Mecum Auctions’ recent Kissimmee sale. Recognized as the most historically significant Shelby Mustang in the world, the car retained its crown as the most valuable Mustang in the world, though it sold for slightly less than...
The Morgan Motor Company has announced the launch of the Plus Four LM62, a model which celebrates the company’s legendary...
The British Grand Prix; Aintree; July 21, 1962 The race has started and Innes Ireland holds up his arm to...
Brausch Niemann had a brief but successful career in motor sport and took part in two world championship Grands Prix, but he is best remembered for his exploits with a humble Lotus 7 during the early 1960s. Some time ago, our esteemed Editor (Casey Annis) reminded us about the doghouse...
1 Test driver Norman Dewis O.B.E. begins a 33-year career at Jaguar (1952). 2 Tobacco advertising on radio and TV...
There have seldom been races which have been held under such atrocious conditions that they remained in the imagination of...
Each year the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion celebrates the greatest achievements in motorsport by accepting only the best of the best historic race cars to compete like they once did. Come Wednesday, Aug. 17 through Saturday, Aug. 20 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, four of the groups will pay tribute...
Lotus founder Colin Chapman was undoubtedly gifted at what he did, admittedly some of his cars were better than others...
The global Lotus community is saddened to learn that Hazel Chapman, the wife of Colin Chapman and co-founder of Lotus,...
America’s premier sports car endurance race started at an abandoned WWII Army Air Corps base in Florida. “The 12-Hours of Sebring” is one of the most important racing events in the U.S. Inaugurated in 1952, Sebring took its place among the ’50s-era international endurance races on which the World Manufacturers’...
“Who do you think you are? Stirling Moss?” This, so the story goes, is what a policeman asked the legendary...
Bob Tullius Aldo Andretti Romolo Tavoni Oscar Koveleski 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 2 British sports car racer and...
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...
1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies in an accident during the non-championship Mexican Grand Prix on the Magdalena Mixhuca Circuit in Mexico...
Author, photographer, racer and co-founder of the Fabulous Fifties organization, Art Evans has passed away at the age of 87....
On February 6th 1967, Ferrari pulled off one of the most spectacular feats in its entire history when it took the top three places at the 24 Hours of Daytona in the first round of that year’s International World Sports Car Championship. The three cars that shot past the chequered...
The only Dragonsnake Cobra equipped at the factory with the Stage III quadruple-Weber carburetion system, this 1965 Shelby 289 Cobra,...
Tom Tjaarda Master of Proportions by Gautam Sen While there are a number of post-war automotive designers that have penned...
The International “Senior Service” Sports Car Race; Silverstone, July 10, 1965 Bob Bondurant doing what he could with John Willment’s ill-handling Lotus 30. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203) 968-2970 E-mail: [email protected] • Web site: www.klemcoll.com •...
Out of the shadows of World War II and its aftermath has come an unique Alfa Romeo sports car flaunting...
On Friday, November 12, 2021, the automotive world lost one of the last, great American racing heroes of the ’50s...
Sam’s Scrapbook: My motorsports memories By Sam Posey with John Posey Even the most casual racing enthusiast will recognize the name Sam Posey. Posey raced a huge variety of sports cars, saloons and open-wheel machines in numerous racing arenas — Can-Am, USRRC, Trans-Am, IMSA, Indy, NASCAR, Formula 5000 and Formula...
When the green flag waved on Nov. 9, 1957, for the Eighth Annual Pebble Beach Road Race, those in attendance...
Mecum Auctions has announced that the famed Corvette Z06 known as “Gulf One”, will be offered for sale at its...
Click here to read “Chargers Part 1—World Rallying 1957–1965 The CSI struck again in 1965, this time putting out a much more comprehensive 17 pages of regulations called Appendix J to better govern the sport. And that was the year a works Lancia team, later to become a mighty force...
One of the best known cars in the world, James Bond’s 1693 Aston Martin DB5 from the 1974 “Goldfinger” movie. ...
Mike Hawthorn Tony Hulman Al Unser Sr. Walt Hansgen 1 Australian touring car driver Tony Longhurst is born in Sidney,...
The late ’60s were a revolutionary period in racecar design. Advances in aerodynamic research were creating a fiercely fast, new breed of racecar. From Can-Am to Formula One, cars were sleeker, quicker and sprouting inverted airfoils or “wings” as a means of harnessing the power of the rushing wind to...
