A trio of Porsches and a BMW M1 mix it up during the 2013 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Photo by author. Since late 2000, the road course nestled in the hills of Mo...
1957 Kurtis Kraft 500G Indy roadster. Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers unless otherwise noted. By the mid-1950s, Smokey Yunick’s skill as a mechanic and crew chief was well-established in NASCAR...
Bob Glidden is inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in April, 2005. Photo by Autostock, courtesy Ford Motor Company. When Bob Glidden was inducted as number four on the NHRA’s Top...
Earlier this year, the folks at Moss restored MVC 575, a Triumph TR2 that set a speed record of nearly 125 mph at Jabbeke using its production 2.0-liter engine. * And speaking of historic British rac...
Photos courtesy Porsche AG. Completed in 2008, Porsche’s new museum in its home city of Stuttgart, Germany, ranks among the world’s best single-marque facilities. Getting there can pose a challenge f...
1982 Buick Grand National Regal (top); 1984 Chevy Monte Carlo SS (bottom); images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that...
Photo courtesy of FIA On the evening of December 4, The FIA formally introduced the Formula 1 Hall of Fame by inaugurating its first class: each of the 33 men who have won at least one F1 title since...
The 1998 Reynard 98i driven by Bobby Rahal in his last Champ Car race. Photos courtesy The Petersen Museum. After an open-wheel racing career that spanned nearly two decades, Bobby Rahal drove his la...
Automaker Alfa Romeo has a long and storied history in Grand Prix and Formula 1 racing, dating back to the 1920s. The last time the Alfa Romeo name graced a Formula 1 car in any manner was 1987, when...
Bookstore shelves are filled with volumes about muscle cars and the muscle-car era, but how many were written by someone who spent their entire life driving the cars, building them, and writing about...
Back, L to R: Brad Francis, Greg Ozubko, Simon Menzies, Alan Kenny, Kevin Power, Rob Flynn, Gary Beck, Bob Papirnick, Eddy Bryck, Ray Peets, Don MacCallum and Robert Slater. Front, L to R: Greg Nicke...
1979 Ford Escort RS1900 at the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo by AtomicJam. In ruling for a charity that benefits crash victims earlier this month, the High Court of England and Wales support...
Photo by CleftClips. One would think the fluorescent orange signs would do the trick. Or perhaps the flashing LED lights mounted to those signs. But the Southern California Timing Association has dec...
Date: circa 1970s Location: Sanair Super Speedway, Saint-Pie, Quebec, Canada Source: Sanair via Stiffspeed What do you see here?
Dick Landy’s 1965 Dodge Hemi Coronet AFX Dragster. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The 12 B-bodies rolled out by Chrysler in late 1964 for Factory Experimental drag racing didn’t look quite right, es...
Photos graciously provided by rally photographer, Eugenio Robleda of One way Books. Supplemented by the author. For decades, Pedro Vargas has dreamed of bringing a true Mexican road rally to the Baja...
Early-build 1956 Lotus 11 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Chassis #150 was one of the first Lotus XI’s constructed. It was the very first to receive a chassis tag. The car st...
If you plan to race in Baja’s Class 11, be prepared to meet Eric Solorzano and come away from your encounter with a tale or two, as this Playboy profile of the long-time racer illustrates. * Do you t...
Images are courtesy of Tom Donney. There have always been fine private collections of Saabs in the USA, but as far as we know–unlike in this automaker’s home country –there’s never before been a larg...
Brochure from author’s collection. For Austin-Healey enthusiasts, the Holy Grail always has been and always will be the sensational 100 S. Of the 73,728 Austin-Healeys built, only 55 were 100 S model...
1958 Porsche 550A Spyder, chassis 550A-0145. Photos by Pawel Litwinski, courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Lighter in weight than the Porsche 550 Spyder it replaced and blessed with greatly improved handing,...
Photos via Jon Mello collection. On track it didn’t do that well. Over its one-year racing career, it DNFd as many times as it finished and only recorded one podium. But it’s not the racing record th...
After a great hue and cry this past week, Ford’s UK branch decided not to scrap a 1959 Standard Ten that somebody turned in for the country’s cash for clunkers scheme. * The Vintagent this week surve...
Joan Newton Cuneo, circa 1911 behind the wheel of a Knox Giantess. Image courtesy of Wilmington Historical Society. Since 2015, the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) in Watkins Glen,...
Looking to bring both spectators and American automakers back to the Indy 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Eddie Rickenbacker proposed a series of rule changes in 1929 that would become kno...