In the late 1950s, there were all kinds of low-production shoddy-built sports racing cars available for the average sportsman to purchase and set immediately to the race track. The Kellison J4-R you see here is perhaps one of the better ones, fitting a lightweight chassis with Chevrolet’s venerable small-block V8 and…
Back a few weeks ago, I wrote a brief piece about Rod Millen’s Pikes Peak-winning Toyota Celica, and how it would be running again at this year’s Leadfoot Festival, a vintage hillclimb event hosted by Rod himself. The driveway to Rod’s ranch in New Zealand serves as the Goodwood-esque hillclimb venue, and it seems to…
Vintage racing is a show, as much as collecting expensive, old cars for display is. The cars aren’t bought to sit around, no matter how misleading the shiny body panels and pristine conditions are. They’re bought to take a beating on the race track, and still need the kind of upkeep they did before becoming…
If there’s one event you should experience in Japan, it’s the Richard Mille Suzuka Sound of Engine. Now in its third year, the Sound of Engine is possibly the closest thing Japan has to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Except rather than watching cars go up a hill they go around one of Japan’s most well-known circuits…
Jules Gounon is a successful international racing driver, having come 2nd at the Daytona 24 proper, won the Spa 24 hour race outright, and secured the ADAC GT Masters championship, and that’s just this year. During the Classic 24 Daytona last weekend, Jules added another race to his tally by assaulting the field with…
The 600-horsepower 1991 Mazda RX-7 IMSA GTO is a four-rotor symphony of mighty Wankel engine sounds. Pro racer Joel Miller stuck a camera on his helmet so you can experience all the loud noises from home—that is, if you can crank your home stereo up to “definite noise violation from two counties away.”
Unless you get mesmerized by the fact that they’re hustling über-expensive, state-of-the-art formula cars inches away from every barrier, the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix can be a dull parade. But not in vintage cars. They’re narrow enough to pass on Monaco’s twisty roads and holy crap, they sound awesome.
I saw this today on the wonderful Innovative, Banned, and Unique Racing Cars Facebook page, and while watching it I almost ruptured by mid-abdominal delight gland. That’s a 1928 Frazer Nash known as the Owlet, and watching that tall, skinny thing bob and weave and tear ass around the track is just fantastic.
The Volkswagen factory rally team will be entering three Polo WRC cars in the Dayinsure Wales Rally GB, from October 27-30. But there’s also another, slower Volkswagen entry in that race, a 1958 Beetle named Bertie.
And lo, I wept as I beheld the PUPPYKNUCKLES photos from the Monterey Historics Reunion, the only event at Pebble Beach worth attending. A sinner such as myself is not worthy of their beauty.
The Race of Gentlemen has become more than a gathering of old steel and vintage bikes on the beaches of Wildwood, it has become a tradition for many hot rodders and proving ground for vintage bikes. I myself have sometimes wondered the stories my cars could tell me if they could talk, but those stories would be…
Ferraris are a mainstay at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but only in the GT classes now. You can’t blink at La Sarthe without accidentally nudging a 458 with an LMP1. (Sorry Jeff!) Let’s ride on one of Ferrari’s older Le Mans prototypes at Road America, then: the cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs flat-12 Ferrari 312 PB.
My friend Galen has pretty amazing luck when it comes to finding old, unseen movies. He once found some home movies of Hitler, which pretty much has to be the Holy Grail of home movie-hunting, at least until someone finds home movies of the Holy Grail. More relevant to now, though, is this amazing home movie of the…
Three major crashes happened on the second day of the 74th Goodwood Members’ Meeting, and while everybody will live to tell their tales, that was down to luck as well as Goodwood’s crew doing their jobs flawlessly. And that’s why it doesn’t need to change.
Ford is back at Le Mans this year with the new GT, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the GT40's first win in 1966, and the three more that followed until 1969. So at this year’s Goodwood Members’ Meeting, a bunch of them showed up. So did the noise.
I’ll be honest: I haven’t really been watching Downton Abbey, and if I have seen it at lately it’s been mostly to watch that old Dowager Whatshername get all dry-Mean-Girls on someone—or for the glimpses of old cars. Well, the DTA crew must have decided to go heavy on the latter, because there’s just been a whole…
The prototypes that raced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s were so fast that they still regularly post top times at current Le Mans races. These cars run vintage races regularly, and they’re pretty spectacular.
