The 1948 Ferrari 166 MM is the definitive 1950s sports car configuration, with its smooth envelope, long flowing hood and...
Vintage Racecar Features
Alberto Ascari was a man in a hurry. In a relatively short Grand Prix career between 1948 and 1955, he...
The Porsche 910 was a purpose built race car based on the Porsche 906. The main difference to the 906 is the use of 13 inch wheels and tyres as in Formula 1, plus a single central nut instead of the 5 nuts as in a road car. This made...
If you ask a hardcore BMW enthusiast about their favorite Batmobile, chances are you’re not going to get any answer...
Back in the June 2008 issue of Vintage Racecar we announced that two special 4-cylinder Austin-Healeys were being prepared in...
This 1964 Shelby 427 Cobra ‘Flip-Top’ Roadster will be offered for sale at RM Auctions’ Automobiles of Arizona auction to be held January 21-22, 2010 at the Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. Its pre-sale estimate is “Available Upon Request.” The odyssey of the Shelby Cobra is defined by the...
1960 Ferrari 250 GT Pinin Farina Coupe Drivetrain: V12 outside plug engine and 4-speed transmission Colors: Russo Rubino and Tan...
In the Ferrari world, the GTO nameplate signifies a distinguished breed of Prancing Horses. Always built in limited numbers and...
Sports Car Digest has been running a series of photo retrospectives drawn from the film archive of Bob Harmeyer. The first installment looked at the 1977 Indianapolis 500, while the latest remembers the 1982 24 Hours of Le Mans. 1982 24 Hours of Le Mans By Bob Harmeyer Separated by...
Track map from the event program (inset) and an aerial view (main image) taken after several years of racing. The...
“Once upon a time”— is the way most children’s fairytales start, but this is no French fairytale. Although it is...
Alfa Romeo will return to Formula 1 after more than 30 years away from the sport. The Italian brand owned by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) signed a multi-year technical and commercial partnership agreement with Swiss Sauber F1 Team for participation in the F1 world championship beginning with the 2018 season....
On 31 May 1915, Ralph DePalma won the 500-mile race in Indianapolis driving a Mercedes Grand Prix car. A major...
By Stephen Mitchell After a year or so of Jaguar E-Type ownership (‘There’s nothing like Jaguar motoring!” D.S. Jenkinson was...
1965 Ford Cortina GT500 First used as a motor racing circuit back in 1938, for the Australian Grand Prix of that year, the Mount Panorama circuit at Bathurst, some 125 miles west of Sydney, has changed somewhat over the years from a dusty unpaved road into what is now an...
Involved with mechancial things virtually all his life, John Barnard first worked in racing at Lola, then a fertile training...
Can you imagine the sheer agony if you were a Formula One fan and had to watch two dozen Grand...
Right away, it’s obvious that Buick is trying to go in a different direction with this year’s Verano. The model has been out since 2011 and was introduced as Buick’s attempt to get into the growing market for premium compact sedans. Verano is of course Spanish for summer, but the...
1958 BRM P25 Chassis 258 It may come as a surprise to many people that Stirling Moss always regarded the...
Over the coming months we will have a series of three interviews with former BRM mechanics who worked with the...
1953 Austin-Healey 100 Is this the ideal sports car of the 1950s? The car that sparked thousands of people into thinking they could buy a production machine and go racing? This 1953 Healey did just that, essentially a production car that found glory at Le Mans and the Mille Miglia....
A solid international field is set for the debut race of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship — the 54th running...
Casey Annis speaks with historic racer and founder of The Masters Series, Ron Maydon, about why he chose to start...
Interview and photos by Dennis Gray Bruce Canepa has been involved with automobiles in one fashion or another nearly all of his life. He was born into a California car family, therefore his early fascination with anything mechanical was understandable, if not expected. An accomplished driver, Canepa raced in period...
1965 Shelby GT350R When Ford introduced the first Mustang to the American public in 1964, the company knew it had...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped...
Story by Will Silk Seventy five years ago Sir William Lyons entered the realm of automobile manufacturing from humble beginnings in the English mid lands as a motorcycle side-car constructor known as Swallow. When it came to the launch of the all-new SS 100 in 1935, Sir William wanted a...
Can it be? Well, yes it is! 50 years since Emerson Fittipaldi took his first F1 World Championship. At 25,...
By Leigh Dorrington World Rally Champion Sebastian Ogier’s victory in the 2014 Monte Carlo Rally in a Volkswagen Polo R...
Although Maserati had enjoyed competition success with its championship-winning 250F grand prix car, the Modenese company soon found itself in dire financial straits. With the introduction and sales success of the road-going 3500 GT, however, the company’s health improved drastically, prompting a renewed interest in creating a sports car that...
