Vintage racing has lost one of its American pioneers and greatest supporters. Bob Sutherland died in Denver on November 13,...
The newly formed Vintage Drivers Club of America has held its inaugural race and organizational meet at Savannah’s Roebling road...
The Society of Vintage Racing Enthusiasts of the Northwest (SOVREN) recently announced that the July 1-3, 2000 running of the Pacific Northwest Historics at Seattle International Raceway will salute Alfa Romeo as its featured marque. The month of July is promised to be an Alfisti Festival starting with the Pacific...
On November 4-7 twelve Ford GT40s were reunited at the HSR Brumos Continental Historics held at the Daytona International Speedway....
Dave Friedman Photography If you’re a regular reader of VRJ, then you’re probably familiar with the breathtaking photographic work of...
January 2000 Time and Two Seats By Dr. Janos Wimpffen Epic. The races were epic, the drivers were epic, the tracks were epic. These books are epic! In, “Time and Two Seats, Five Decades of Long Distance Racing,” racing historian Janos Wimpffen has done the seemingly impossible – captured the...
San Diego, CA Oct. 22-24 Some people came to San Diego for a cruise… some people didn’t.Photo: Bob Dunsmore Become...
Daytona Beach, Florida Nov. 4-7 Indy car champion Bobby Rahal rockets his 1965 GT40 MkI through the Daytona high-banking.Photo: Art...
Hello, Posterity. This is the past calling. Writers and readers being separated by the editor’s deadlines, it’s still 1999 for me, but you’re already way off there in January 2000. So I thought it would be fun to toss a little time capsule over the Great Millennial Divide. Do you...
Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Kent...
Gilles Villeneuve Jean-Pierre Wimille 1 Sports car racer James “Hap” Sharp is born (1928). 11 American John Walter Christie, free-lance...
As a racer and attorney, I am frequently asked by my fellow racers to provide legal advice about car transactions they are contemplating, or about a deal that is now having problems. In recent years, the contracts for vintage, collectible, race and exotic cars have certainly become more complex, as...
“I find Richie Ginther interesting. Good, competent, intelligent and safe. He can drive big cars and small cars and it...
Superstitious? Not even a little bit? Are you one of those ritualistic types that won’t (or can’t) climb into your...
What could be more refreshing on a warm, Saturday afternoon than opening up the fridge? Recently, I had the opportunity to do just that. “Boring” you say, “a refrigerator, is a refrigerator, is a refrigerator. “Not so” I say, because the refrigerator in this case is not a Whirlpool or...
Two names have become synonymous with Corvette over the years – Zora Arkus-Duntov and Dick Guldstrand. From the airport circuits...
American Customer Sports Racing Cars of the 1950s Everyone has heard of the scandalously beautiful Scarabs, the ground-pounding Cunninghams and...
The Second Annual “Race at the Base” will be held May 5-7 at the Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia Beach, Virginia, and will be sanctioned this year by the Virginia Beach Racing Association and co-sponsored by the United States Navy and the City of Virginia Beach. According to race director...
On January 15, 2000, the Vintage Racecar Journal in cooperation with the Vintage Auto Racing Association (VARA), were proud to...
HSR-West recently announced the creation of a four-race Challenge Series for 2-Liter Sports Racers. According to HSR-West President Ed Swart,...
Organizers of the 2000 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance have announced that this year’s event, to be held March 9-12, will feature the cars of Mercer and will also pay tribute to vintage racer and racing champion Brian Redman. Featured exhibits include a collection of Mercer cars, built from 1910 until...
Holman & Moody This is the official web site of this venerable Ford racing and tuning specialist. This site features...
February 2000 Modena Racing Memories By Graham Gauld In the 1950s and early 1960s, Modena was at the center of...
Las Vegas, Nevada Nov. 6-7 The 1967 Ford Cortina of Monica Escandon. Photo: David Yoshimura Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all...
Summit Point Raceway, Virginia Nov. 11-26 The 1963 Daimler SP250 of Charles Magby holds off the 1953 MG TD of...
One of the side benefits of the race reporter trade is getting to hobnob with motor racing’s glitterati at their...
Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Kent Bain Vintage Racing Services (203) 377-1658 Jack Boxstrom RM Classics (613) 476-9132 Bruce Trennery Fantasy Junction (510) 653-7555 These prices are suggested guidelines, they are not absolute. Individual prices may...
John Surtees Niki Lauda 5 NASCAR driver Darrell Waltrip is born (1947). 6 Porsche 906 wins its class in its...
The last time we spoke, we talked about the importance of having the correct fastner for a given application. This...
We posed the question two issues back, “Who are the two Americans who would have been most likely to succeed in Formula One, but never tried?” We gave early-1950s Cunningham ace Phil Walters as our first choice and asked you to guess the other. Well, here are the results. Rick...