Proposed Jim Clark Museum. Images courtesy The Jim Clark Trust, unless otherwise noted. Jim Clark was, by most period accounts, the best racing driver of his day, and quite possibly the best of all t...
Offenhauser-powered Indy-raced 1965 Gerhardt for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The 1965 Gerhardt Indy chassis was almost a direct copy of the highly successful Lotus 29 Formula...
With auctions, seminars, tours, test drives and car shows leading up to the main event, there is no shortage of activities on Amelia Island in the days before Sunday’s concours d’elegance, this year ...
John Platt is an Australian photographer who specializes in stills for film productions and had the good fortune to work on “Mad Max: Fury Road,” so his photos of the movie’s automotive cast are pret...
Photos from past runnings by Neil Hammond, courtesy Historic Winton. Australia is a driver’s paradise. Its population is just as crazed by cars as ours is. So it makes perfect sense that vintage auto...
In 1965, McLaren introduced the M1B, its latest sports racer for Group 7 (and later, Can-Am) competition, which regulated the number of seats (two) and very little else about a car’s construction. Th...
The restored 1972 International Fleetstar Blue Hilton transporter. Photos courtesy Team Penske. In 1972, Team Penske debuted an enclosed race car transporter that served as storage, garage and even l...
Photos by Matt Howell, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In 1988, Mazda introduced its latest Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) endurance racer, the 767, designed to take advantage of rule cha...
Corvette Museum Motorsports Park in August 2014, prior to garage and pavilion construction. Images courtesy National Corvette Museum. After two years of legal wrangling between the residents of Clark...
Forbes this week ran an article discussing what happens when nobody wants your parents’ stuff, and though it doesn’t address collector cars, we know well that the old car hobby is a generational one,...
When the StanceWorks "Parts Car" build began, there was an invaluable balance I wanted to find. While undoubtedly a race car at its core, I wanted something built to last. I wanted to build a car tha...
1968 Hemi Darts. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Pomona, California, is synonymous with NHRA drag racing, as host city to both the season-opening Winternationals and the season-ending NHRA Finals. Po...
Photos of XKSS 716 by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In 1956, near the peak of the D-Type’s success in international sports car racing, Jaguar made the corporate decisio...
Photo via Archivio Stile Bertone. If the main purpose of the Lancia Stratos Zero concept prototype was to catch the attention of the people at Lancia it did not seem to happen at the 1970 edition of ...
Taking a break from excoriating just about everybody in Detroit, Peter DeLorenzo has spent some time recently telling the story of Owens-Corning’s involvement in sports car racing in the Sixties and ...
Kevin Cogan driving the IMSA GTP Zakspeed Roush Ford Mustang to a third-place finish at Road Atlanta in 1982. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. We’ll say this: If you’re interested in attending a sp...
From the seller’s description: 1952 Buick Super Riviera -Land Speed Race Car “Bombshell Betty.” Bombshell Betty is 1952 Buick Super Riviera-Land Speed Race Car (Gas Competition Coupe vintage engine)....
Photo by Bob Heathcote, courtesy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. On Tuesday, January 31, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a deal with the Sports Car Racing Association of the Mont...
Albert Guyot in the recently rediscovered Duesenberg 183 at the 1921 French Grand Prix. Public domain image. It was a most improbable victory, but in July 1921 Duesenberg became the first American au...
Steve Kinser. Photo courtesy Tony Stewart Racing. Seven stars representing a variety of racing disciplines have been elected to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America for 2017, their enshrinement an...
Most art cars depend on plastic toys glued to their exterior surfaces to make a statement. Bruce Tomb’s Maria del Camino goes a little deeper, using a 1959 El Camino riddled with holes, mounted to ta...
1954 Lincoln Capri, on loan to The Revs from the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada. Photos by author. From the beginning of December through the end of April, I spend quite a lot of time thi...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. In 1957, 16-year old Elon Jack “E.J.” Potter had the crazy, brilliant idea to drop a small-block Chevy V-8 into a motorcycle frame. It took another three years for Potter to ...
Jean Argetsinger with Sir Jackie Stewart. Photo courtesy IMRRC. Jean Argetsinger, a towering figure in early American road racing who did a lot to create the International Motor Racing Research Cente...
How does one amass a collection of more than 13,000 automotive brochures from around the world while living in Manhattan? Ask collector Steve Hayes, as the New York Times did this past week as he pre...