As historic racing participants we often go to great lengths—and spend a great deal of time—attempting to recreate racing history....
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Aston Martin’s one and only victory at Le Mans. With such a major...
If you examine the incredible growth in participation and popularity of historic racing over the past couple of decades, one of the biggest contributing factors to this success story has to be the sport’s accessibility. Historic racing is, without doubt, one of the most accessible forms of motorsport in the...
For the better part of the past 10 years, I’ve wanted to devote an issue of VR to the history...
It’s sometime easy to loose sight of the fact that the heroes of racing are, by and large, just people....
Hold on a minute, let me just drag this over. Hrrrrmph. One more second while I climb on top. Ok, I’m now firmly entrenched atop my soapbox and ready for this month’s sermon… I mean column. We vintage racers have a problem that for one reason or another we’ve chosen...
Due to the peccadilloes and vagaries of the publishing world, I sit here writing this column in the beginning of...
I sit here pondering: “How do you say something about Dan Gurney that hasn’t already been said?” It’s tough. Few, if any, across motor sport history have had the breadth of success and experience that Gurney has enjoyed. Sure, many have won Grands Prix, or Le Mans, or NASCAR races,...
If you’re an automotive enthusiast, and you spent any kind of time in Southern California from 2006 to 2014, then...
I find it really hard to believe that this issue of Vintage Racecar is our 100th! I recently had a...
In early April, I made my way to Las Vegas for the inaugural Champ car Vegas Grand Prix. This new event featured just three races through the streets of downtown Las Vegas, the main Champ car race, an Atlantic race, and a historic Formula One race sanctioned by Historic Grand...
Clive Chapman, son of famed Lotus founder Colin Chapman and the guiding light at Classic Team Lotus, revealed an interesting little bit of Lotus trivia recently. Apparently, tucked away in some dusty corner of their Hethel shops was a fireproof case that contained 28 rolls of old microfilm. When they...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
I was pleasantly surprised to receive so many positive emails supporting my premise last week that the Ferrari 365 GTC/4...
With this entire issue—both Racecar and Roadcar—we join the rest of the motoring world in celebrating the 100th anniversary of legendary Italian manufacturer Maserati. While you will read throughout these pages about a wide array of significant road and racecars that bore the Trident insignia, and a great number of...
Not long ago, our resident sage—the good Dr. Lawrence—noted that innovations in road cars have always come from sports cars,...
Like any good race-nut, over the years I’ve tried to chip away at my list of the “great automotive wonders...
As you’ll have hopefully seen in the large promotional pages we’ve run over the past couple of months, we’ve at last launched a completely new and upgraded Web site. Needless to say, this was a long, painful process but I couldn’t be more pleased with the results. Now, we finally...
In early July, Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing made a dramatic debut of a new, jointly developed “Hypercar.” Dubbed...
Whether you are a fan of Formula One or not, it was hard to not read about the recent Bahrain...
I’m always a little bit shocked when I see the worlds of modern and historic racing intersect. Recently, I was trolling through a mountain of relatively uninteresting automotive press releases when my attention was piqued by a headline that read “Ginetta to debut new LMP competitor.” Ginetta? Debuting a new...
Recently, I was invited to a birthday party. Now, in my current life, this always translates into jumping up and...
Every job has its drawbacks and its drudgeries. While writing for VR is a passion that all of our staff...
At 30,000 feet, questions begin to crystallize like ice on the wing… Will the circulation ever return to my hopelessly cramped legs? Is that really chicken or is it Soilient Green? Is the woman barking for us to take our seats a flight attendant or a Bulgarian prison guard? While...
While this news has been somewhat eclipsed by the virtual implosion of the U.S. auto industry, after more than a...
Late last month, just as we were going to press, we learned of the tragic and untimely death of ’70s...
You hold in your hands, the 225th issue of VR! Seems hard to believe that we’ve been doing this, month in and month out, for 20 years…that’s like 175, in publishing years! Throughout these past 20 years, we’ve evolved not only in our quality and content, but also in response...
