Alfa Romeo GTZ Tubolare which raced at Le Mans in 1964. Photos by author. Back in the 1980s resin-based model kits in 1/43 rd scale started coming on strong with car enthusiasts who enjoyed the hands...
The Sherman M4 tank was powered by a variety of engines, but by far the oddest was the 30-cylinder A57 invented by Chrysler. Essentially five L-head inline sixes joined together, the unusual powerpla...
The track from the air. Image courtesy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The Sports Car Club of America’s Canadian-American Challenge Cup, generally shortened to Can-Am, began as a way of bringing the FIA’s...
Vintage racing-prepped 1959 Chevrolet Corvette for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Four time Monterey Historics winner. Rolex award, and Choppard winner too. Completely legal car...
Pete Hamilton with his Petty Enterprises Plymouth Superbird prior to the start of the 1970 Daytona 500. Photo by Skeensss. Pete Hamilton, winner of the 1970 Daytona 500, died earlier this week at the...
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 ...
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...
Most of the vintage race weekends that we attend are quite an occasion. The paddocks swarm with spectators and large car haulers line the numerous rows of work areas. The weekends feel surreal, with ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Photos courtesy Coronado Speed Festival. After years of financial losses and depleted resources, the organizers of Coronado, California’s, annual San Diego Fleet Week have decided to sacrifice the vi...
The Ken Miles (L), Allen Grant (C) and Dan Gurney (R) Sebring Edition Cobras. Photos courtesy Superformance. From a results perspective, the 1963 12 Hours of Sebring was a disappointing outing for Sh...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Mecum’s 2017 Kissimmee auction featured no shortage of blue-chip muscle cars from collectors like Don Fazell, Jackie and Gary Runyon, Dale Reed and Tim and Pam Wellbor...
Photo courtesy Simeone Museum. The widely recounted story goes like this: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., impressed by Renault’s win in the 1906 French Grand Prix, asked the automaker to build 10 scaled-...
Graham Hill drives his Lotus Type 49 to victory in the 1968 Spanish Grand Prix. Photo courtesy Ford Motorsports. Throughout much of the sport’s history, the evolution of the Formula 1 racing car has ...
An original Aston Martin DB4 GT. Photos courtesy Aston Martin. In May of 1959, Aston Martin debuted a new DB4-derived GT prototype at Silverstone, and in the hands of Stirling Moss, the car captured ...
Photos by P. Litwinski, courtesy Bonhams Auctions, unless otherwise noted. With just 12 examples constructed in-period, the E-Type Lightweight is rarer than Jaguar’s C-type (53 built) and D-type (71 ...
This Ducati 1299 Superleggera stickers for $80,000, makes 215 horsepower and weighs 340 pounds. Only 500 will be built, and most are already spoken for. Photos by Jim O’Clair and Kurt Ernst. Tourists...
The Snake II funny car. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Don Prudhomme initially preferred dragsters to funny cars, because, in his mind, early floppers weren’t all that quick. It was a chassis built...