Sports Car Digest - The Sports, Racing and Vintage Car Journal
Sports Car Digest focuses on Classic Car Auctions, Concours d’Elegance, Vintage Car Racing, Road Rallies and other historic automotive events.
William Edgar, motorsport author/photographer and son of sports car legend John Edgar, has contributed articles to Bimmer, Corvette, Excellence, Forza, Octane and Vintage Motorsport among others. He co-authored (with Michael T. Lynch and Ron Parravano) the Dean Batchelor Award-winning book “American Sports Car Racing in the 1950s” and has received Gold Medallion International Automotive Media Awards for profiles on Bill Krause and Pete Lovely.
In addition, his Edgar Motorsport Archive is a frequent provider of period photos for hardcopy and online publications.
By William Edgar | Photographs Edgar Motorsport Archive Carroll Shelby, as he himself would say, has gone horizontal. He died at age 89 on Thursday, May 10, 2012, at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, after pneumonia earlier this year left him weak and vulnerable to what eventually comes to us all. He knew I was writing this story and I was looking forward to telling him it … [Read more...]
By William Edgar | Photographs as Credited It was July 19, 1974 that I really got to know John Young Stewart, even though I’d already met and worked with him several years before that British Grand Prix Friday practice day riding with him in a chauffeured Daimler out to Brands Hatch, a distance of some 25 miles from London’s Savile Row where we’d first made a stop at Jackie’s tailor. … [Read more...]
The Quail Life—Up Close at the 2011 Motorsports Gathering Story by William Edgar Photography by William Edgar and Noted Arriving somewhat after the mid-August Rolex Circle of Champions Best of Show winner rolled onto, and off of, the awards ramp at The Quail Lodge Golf Club in Carmel, California—this article comes as an “up-close” companion to Sports Car Digest’s more timely, … [Read more...]
The Art of Italian Motoring – 2011 Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance Story and photos by William Edgar To begin our special event report, I quote a favorite line that Stephen King scripted for the 1982 comedy horror film, Creepshow—“It’s Father’s Day, and I want my cake!” Well, I got mine, not as in the movie, if you should recall that macabre denouement, but rather here in … [Read more...]
Story and Photography by William Edgar At first it seems a medieval jousting field of honor, a time-travel panorama of knights and steeds flanked by peaked tents and smoke from roasting meats. Missing here, though, are armor and lance, and at least some of the ancient chivalry. The horses are not flesh but metal—steel, iron, alloy, carbon fiber—on wheels, not hooves. Ages after Sir … [Read more...]
Story by William Edgar, Photography by William Edgar and Graham Blake as noted To begin, I was driving through the Sonoma Valley early Friday morning on April Fools’ Day—I’m not kidding—to spend the next three mornings and afternoons doing what so many of us love to do, which is to attend a vintage racing weekend at one of America’s best road course raceways. The surrounding hills … [Read more...]
Our MG Mighty Midget, TC for All Times By William Edgar and photography courtesy of Edgar Motorsport Archive My first really dramatic recollection of our MG-TC was drifting through Sunset Boulevard’s curves, my father at the wheel. He’d folded the screen flat and the wind-blown tangs of hot engine and rubber were sheer adrenaline. I was 15 then, had already learned to drive the … [Read more...]
