Two names have become synonymous with Corvette over the years – Zora Arkus-Duntov and Dick Guldstrand. From the airport circuits...
Vintage Racecar Features
Ever since my VRJ colleague, Pete Lyons, reminisced about his early trips to and ‘round the Nurburgring in the March...
American Customer Sports Racing Cars of the 1950s Everyone has heard of the scandalously beautiful Scarabs, the ground-pounding Cunninghams and the tantalizing Corvette Monza SS. These cars and others were the products of companies determined to win at any cost… which was a good thing since Lance Reventlow, Briggs Cunningham...
Ferrari 250 SWB The combination of Stirling Moss and the Rob Walker Ferrari 250 SWB were near unstoppable in British...
41 year-old German Christian Danner is one of a very small number of active drivers with connections to the heady…and...
Click here to read Part 1 of Something Special One of the chief complaints about early sports racers is that they cost too much, with RS Porsches, Jaguar D-Types and Ferraris going for $500K to over $1 million. Here are some suggestions that will get you into vintage sports racer...
BMW CSL In the world of production sedans – touring cars, as they are known in Europe – few if any...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
As “Historic Racing Magazine of the Mille Miglia”, VRJ begins its coverage of the May 2000 event with a look at the history and genesis of one of the world’s most famous races. Italy was still firmly entrenched in the 19th Century in 1926, when four men from Brescia put...
Maserati 300S The modern era in motor racing began shortly after the end of WWII, when there was a huge...
In this final installment of Casey Annis’ interview with Dan Gurney, Dan discusses his “second” career as a constructor and...
Before paved roads became common and state highways were still an unrealized dream, driving from Southern to Northern California was a major undertaking sure to tax both man and machine. Cross-country auto racing was such a foreign idea that early-day long distance competitions commanded enormous public interest. Become a Member...
MG-N Monoposto Back in late 1934, a rather proud and reasonably affluent father decided his son should have something special...
Enzo Ferrari, Aymo Maggi, Piero Taruffi, Clemente Biondetti, Tazio Nuvolari, Giovanni Canestrini, Juan Manuel Fangio, Antonio Brivio, Stirling Moss, Giuseppe...
Clemente Biondetti Describing Clemente Biondetti as colorful is like saying the Sears Tower in Chicago is tall. Unpredictable, imaginative, irascible, gentle, gruff, fascinating, stubborn, generous, outspoken, he was all of those things. He was also the only man to win the Mille Miglia four times, an extraordinary feat of skill,...
Robert Newman examines the men and machines that made the Mille Miglia one of the world’s greatest races. The Mille...
Have you ever sat in front of the television watching a beautifully filmed documentary about the archaeological wonders of Egypt,...
Tom Wheatcroft is a man with a lot of energy and drive. Though in his seventies, he still goes to work each and every day and has seen a boyhood dream become a world renowned achievement. Not only did the boy who first saw cars race at Donington in 1935...
Thanks to the Ice Age, we were given the Bonneville Salt Flats upon which thousands of land speed racers have...
Sadler MkV Charles and John Cooper may have started the mid-engined revolution, but it was a maverick Canadian named Bill...
Bobby Rahal is one of the most well-rounded individuals to take part in motorsport. His reputation for using his brain in the cockpit was well deserved, and that intellect helped Rahal build a solid foundation for his post-driving career. Rahal retired from active CART competition in 1998 after a 17-year...
World championship rallying is a tough sport. Its drivers seldom compete on nice, smooth asphalt circuits where the worst that...
HRG was a very small British manufacturer of predominantly competition-oriented sports cars from 1936-1966 – the initials were drawn from...
When our European Editor Ed McDonough heard that Maurice Trintignant was to appear at the Monaco Historics in late May, it became Ed’s mission to catch up with one of his boyhood heroes. Not only had Trintignant driven Grand Prix cars and sports cars before and after the war, but...
For five years, the Monaco Grand Prix played host to the cut-throat world of Formula Junior racing. The Grand Prix...
European Editor Ed McDonough recently became the first person outside Team Lotus to drive one of the best kept secrets...
Few, professional drivers can lay claim to having active racing careers that span 40 years. One of the only drivers to be able to make this claim is the quiet and affable John Morton. Starting in the early ’60s with Carroll Shelby and the prototype Cobra, Morton has raced everything...
Mercedes-Benz’ incredibly successful first half of the 20th century was going to be a really tough act to follow. Ritter...
1972 Giannini Gruppo 2 Corse The story of Giannini is the tale of the Italian car tuners, the specialists who...
New Zealander Howden Ganley competed in 35 Grand Prix events between 1971 and 1974, raced in a number of major sports car events, and has not been off the motor racing scene since his first encounter with it in 1955. VRJ’s European Editor Ed McDonough competed against him in the...
