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.
In conjunction with the opening of Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee will host a panel discussion with the exhibition’s Guest Curator, Ken Gross, and noted automotive authorities and collectors on Friday, June 14, 2013. Panel participants include Richard Adatto, automotive historian and exhibition catalogue contributor; Jeff Lane, … [Read more...]
In 2014, Porsche will return to the pinnacle of endurance motor racing, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with a newly designed sports prototype. With 16 overall victories, Porsche is the most successful manufacturer in Le Mans. The most recent win was in 1998 with the Porsche 911 GT1. The German manufacturer will mark the comeback with a multimedia website entitled "Mission 2014. Our Return." The site … [Read more...]
An exhibition of Porsche automobiles will be displayed at the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) in Raleigh from October 13, 2013 through January 20, 2014. Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed will feature more than 20 automobiles that together trace the evolution of Porsche's design aesthetic from its inception in the 1930s through the present day. Organized by guest curator Ken Gross and … [Read more...]
By Jeff Walker, Chubb Collector Car Insurance So, you’ve decided to sign up for a multi-day classic car tour. Maybe it’s a low-key tour with a local club or rally organizer. Or maybe you’re ready for one of the better known North American tours like the California Mille, Colorado Grand or the Copperstate 1000. Or are you bold enough to take your favorite touring car overseas to ride in an … [Read more...]
The Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California announced several new additions to its collection of art, furniture and automobiles in celebration of the third anniversary of the museum’s opening. Over the past three years, Peter and Merle Mullin and the Mullin Automotive Museum staff have established it as one of the premier collections of Art Deco art and automobiles. Since its founding, … [Read more...]
Fascination with miniature versions of something grand, like an automobile, may seem frivolous, silly even. Items like this, arguably little more than trinkets, serve very little if any practical purpose. While they may be faithful recreations of something larger, they are just that, recreations. By the same token, though, our ceaseless and at times almost obsessive fascination with the larger … [Read more...]
Designer, author, team owner and photojournalist Peter Brock was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) with the 2013 Phil Hill Award. RRDC President Bobby Rahal presented Brock with the award at a dinner prior to the running of the 2013 Rolex 24 At Daytona, the season opener of the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series. The Phil Hill Award has been presented annually since 1993 to the … [Read more...]
By Jeff Walker, Chubb Collector Car Insurance There comes a time in the life of classic car owners when driving their precious vehicles to an event or restoration shop is not an option. They will need to load their “baby” onto a commercial trailer and hope it arrives safely. Classic car owners can do more than hope, however. With a little due diligence, they can help make sure their car … [Read more...]
The front straightaway at Lime Rock Park was renamed Sam Posey Straight to honor the racing driver that saw much success at the Connecticut track. Lime Rock Park owner Skip Barber made the announcement on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, where this year Posey was Honorary Chairman. In Lime Rock’s 57-year history, this is the first name change for a section of the … [Read more...]
By Jeff Walker, Chubb Collector Car Every so often we're reminded that no matter how well you prepare, Mother Nature can take over and change everything. It seems that every year some part of the country is left picking up the pieces after a weather event or other natural disaster. Inevitably, this means classic cars are caught in the crosshairs. If you’re a collector, you know you’re … [Read more...]
On May 27, 1934 the German racing cars that were soon to acquire the nickname "Silver Arrow" were entered for their first race, on the Avus racetrack in Berlin. Although neither Auto Union nor Mercedes-Benz won that event, it was not long before these two manufacturers began to dominate international Grand Prix racing, a situation that prevailed until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. … [Read more...]
A Cord L-29 Cabriolet formerly owned by Frank Lloyd Wright, the one-off Edsel Ford Model 40 Speedster and the unique Stout Scarab will be among the interesting cars on display this summer at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee. The exhibition, titled Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles, will feature 18 automobiles and three motorcycles from the 1930s and ’40s from … [Read more...]
Review by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Everyone involved in the collector car hobby – mechanics, restorers, parts suppliers, archivists, judges, historians, concours organizers, transporters and most especially owners, even (and maybe most importantly) owners of mass-produced Model As and Chevy 3100 pickups – should acquire, read and contemplate this book. “Stewardship” is, like the … [Read more...]
On the 29th of January, 2013, the 127th birthday of the automobile, the Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens (FIVA) introduced important guidelines for owners of historical vehicles. The Turin Charter, presented at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Germany, provides guidance on questions of authenticity. … [Read more...]
A new exhibition at the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania will celebrate Porsche Style and Design. From January 25 to April 28, 2013, the 'Porsche Style and Design' display will highlight various Porsche road and race cars, including the 356, 911, 914 models. … [Read more...]
