Six (possibly seven) DB2 chassis were sent to Graber, in Switzerland, for custom convertible bodies that featured fixed front fenders...
Lost and Found After 60 Years – A Truly Italian History By Giuseppe De Angelis Since the birth of the...
Quite simply, cars raced by Dick Seaman are few and far between. The British driver was active in our sport for only a handful of years, and for three of those he was employed as a factory driver for Mercedes-Benz. This alone makes it extremely difficult to “get your hands”...
It’s all change for the Mille Miglia Commemoration and the Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti. The Mille Miglia has been brought...
It’s wrong to call Baconin Borzacchini the “eternal second,” as some motor sport historians do. Sure, he came 2nd in...
Cisitalia 202 was a ground-breaking post-war design that placed Pininfarina at the forefront of automotive design. The late 19th century was not a great time for the Farina family to be bringing up eleven children in rural Italy. The tenth was christened Battista, and with all these mouths to feed...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
As you’ll read elsewhere in this issue, we sadly report that the elder statesman of American motorsport, John Fitch, has passed away at the remarkable age of 95. As outlined in his obituary on page 12, Fitch’s life read like some kind of wild adventure novel melding Indiana Jones, Captain...
Sicily. Discuss. Well, it’s an island, it has, shall we say, a fearsome reputation and it was once home to...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as...
Away from the start of Race 3 at Eagle Mountain in April of 1957, Dave Tallaksen’s 3.4-liter XK-SS (#147) shares the front row of the grid with Bob Schroeder’s Kurtis-Chevy (#233) as a pair of Corvettes give chase. Photo: Bob Jackson By late 1956 the production of Jaguar’s D-Type competition model...
The Chubb Insurance Concours d’Elégance judging day at Salon Privé London marked the close of the Luxury Super Car Show,...
The 2012 running of the famed Mille Miglia rally took place 16-20 May in Italy on the historic roads from...
The California Mille, America’s salute to Italy’s most famous open road race, The Mille Miglia, returns for its 23rd year,...
Quit Scraping the Paint! Photo: Roger Dixon Dear Editor, I would like to point out one quibble and one major...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with his passion for speed and technology. These innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing sports car can...
Tried and True – Continued success on Japan’s oldest Autumnal rally Report and photos by Len Clarke La Festa Autunno...
The California Mille 2013 will be staged April 29th to May 2nd on 1,000 miles of secondary roads in Northern...
More than 100 friends of John Fitch gathered at his home in Lime Rock, Connecticut, to honor him on the...
Karl Kling was born too late to join Rudolf Caracciola, Manfred Von Brauchitsch and Hermann Lang in their rampage through...
My personal record with the Mercedes 300 SLR was six starts, three wins, two 2nd places and one “withdrawn when leading”…under protest. That was at Le Mans after the big crash when one of our cars was involved and the Mercedes board in Stuttgart decided to withdraw the other cars....
The classic car community lost one of its great champions on July 3, when Martin Swig passed away as a...
Count Giannino Marzotto, winner of the Mille Miglia in 1950 and 1953, died in Padua Hospital in July after a long illness. He was 84. Marzotto will forever be remembered as the 22-year-old who took on the cream of world motor racing in 1950 and beat them at their own...
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The cars were very much the stars at the 2012 Mille Miglia Commemoration in May, the 30th such event to...
“Among my drivers, Giovanni Bracco was, perhaps, the one who scored the most spectacular success,” Enzo Ferrari once said about the fun-loving, booze-loving winner of the 1952 Mille Miglia. Bracco won other races, but he will always be remembered for his climb from nowhere to victory, chain-smoking and swigging red...