Just in time for the holidays, Sports Car Digest and Senior Contributing Photographer Dennis Gray have produced a stunning vintage racing calendar for 2010. The calendar contains our favorite images from several vintage car racing events Dennis documented in 2009, with pictures from [...]
The final race of the 10-race SVRA vintage car racing season was held October 15-18, 2009 at Road Atlanta in the rolling hills of Northeast Georgia.
Host to major events like Petit Le Mans, the 2.54 mile, 12-turn Road Atlanta is always a favorite [...]
Bonhams & Butterfields celebrated the eighth year of its “Classic California” auction at the Petersen Automotive Museum on November 14th, 2009, with total sales of $2,138,736 for automotive collectibles and celebrity-owned vehicles, cars and motorcycles from noted private collections.
With a headlining ensemble of 28 cars from the Sam Garrett Collection [...]
The saleroom at the Yorkshire Event Centre was packed on November 18th, 2009 with a mixture of local bidders and international enthusiasts for Bonhams annual sale of Collectors’ Motor Cars, Motorcycles, Historic Commercial Vehicles and Automobilia at Harrogate. Spirited bids saw 92.14% of items [...]
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance has announced the featured marques and special classes for its 60th anniversary on Sunday, August 15, 2010. Entry forms were mailed this weekend and are due January 6th.
The 2010 field at Pebble Beach will [...]
The 2010 Mille Miglia will be held May 6-9, starting and ending in Brescia, Italy. After the success of this year’s event – which attracted four million spectators along its route – the 2010 race officially started with the opening of the entry list [...]
Brooklands Museum will be open again on New Year’s Day in 2010 for the largest New Year’s classic car gathering in the region so if you’re not nursing too sore a head from the night before then please come along. The bar [...]
The 2009 Classic Adelaide Rally was held November 18-22 over approximately 1000 kilometres throughout South Australia, with natives Kevin Weeks and Bec Crunkhorn winning their third straight Classic Adelaide tarmac rally.
The pair crossed the finish line after [...]
The Earl of March confirmed the theme of the 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed – provisionally to be held on 2-4 July 2010 – as ‘Viva Veloce! – The Passion for Speed’. This theme celebrates Italy’s all-consuming fascination with [...]
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, founded in 1950 as a celebration of the automobile, has evolved into one of the world’s foremost classic car events. Additionally, as exemplified by the more than 20 [...]
Longtime Road Racing Drivers Club member Nick Craw was named FIA Senate President following an FIA General Assembly election at the FIA annual meeting in Paris on Oct. 23, 2009.
The Senate is the top-ranked body of the FIA, second only to the [...]
Classic Adelaide rally organizers announced the driver and co-driver of a car competing in the South Australian event were killed in a crash today.
They were driver Gary Tierney, 60, and co-driver David Carra, 43, both from Melbourne.
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With development of its 2nd generation of ‘DB’ six-cylinder sports cars nearing its end, Aston Martin turned to the Italian Carrozzeria Touring of Milan, creator of the original DB4 of 1959, for the next model.
Touring built a pair of two-seater prototypes, [...]
1958 12 Hours of Sebring – Anglo-Americans and the Redhead
Story and photos by Ed McDonough
1957 and 1958 were interesting years in international sports car racing, when it could be argued that sports cars turned into sports racing cars, in [...]
The Carroll Shelby Foundation is offering 66 signed copies of “Go Like Hell – Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans.” The critically acclaimed book tells the remarkable story of how Carroll Shelby helped Henry Ford II, [...]
Story and photos by Simon Wright
The National Exhibition Centre just outside Birmingham, England hosted the 2009 Classic Motor Show. This three day show was a big success with the public, with Friday having a record crowd, and Saturday morning the queues were [...]
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca announced the classes for the Monterey Historic Automobile Races® and Monterey Pre-Historics to give the car owners more information in assisting them in selecting which cars they would like to enter. The Entry Forms for both races [...]
Barons held its Sandown Park auction on October 27th, resulting in an 84% sales rate and a couple new auction records.
A MkI Lotus Cortina drove well over estimate to sell for an impressive £37,364, attracting bids from as far away as Australia, before being [...]
Gooding and Company announced that it will be hosting its first-ever auction at Amelia Island, Florida. Already starring a number of exceptional consignments including the Best of Show-winning 1931 Voisin C20 “Mylord” Demi-Berline, Gooding & Company’s one-day [...]
The 6th Annual Niello Concours at Serrano was held on October 4, 2009 against the backdrop of the beautiful Serrano Visitors Center in El Dorado Hills, California. With the Italian themed Festa d’Italia bringing a little bit of Italy [...]
Chopard Watches of Switzerland will be the prime sponsor of the 20th running of the California Mille, scheduled for April 25-29, 2010, Martin Swig, Mille organizer, and Karl-Friedrich Scheufele of Chopard, announced.
A major sponsor of Italy’s famed Mille Miglia and other high-line [...]
Historic Motorsports Productions (HMP), has teamed with Circuit Mont-Tremblant to launch HMP’s inaugural Canadian vintage racing and lifestyle event, July 10-12, 2010. The event is billed as “Bobby Rahal’s Legends of Motorsports” and is the third 2010 HMP event thus far [...]
CTS Auctions’ inaugural sale on 5th December in Sydney will include half a million dollars worth of important historic racing cars from the Sydney-based collection of Rob Tweedie.
Former Australian Super Touring ace Rob Tweedie is now a well known and fierce competitor at many historic racing events in Australia having [...]
Walter Röhrl won the Costa Brava Rally for the FIA European Rally Championship for Historical Cars in the Spanish town of Lloret de Mar on November 6, 2009. Teaming up with co-pilot Peter Göbel, German Rally Champion in 2002, 2004, 2005, [...]
The 2009 Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance was held November 1st at the historic Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
As the featured event of the Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance & Motoring Festival, [...]
Gooding and Company announced five exceptional collector cars available for sale at its annual Scottsdale Auction this January. Gooding & Company’s headline European consignments include a winning 1956 Jaguar D-Type, a rare Pinin Farina 1959 Ferrari 250 GT Series I Cabriolet, a beautifully-appointed 1956 [...]
The Antique Auto Museum (AACA Museum) at Hershey will have a special exhibit featuring six spectacular and diverse vehicles from the JWR Automobile Museum Collection which exclusively features the collections of Mr. John “Jack” Rich. The special exhibit will run until [...]
Held on the eve of the historic London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, the saleroom for Bonhams annual sale of veteran cars and other related automobilia was packed with spirited bidders who competed with an international audience on the [...]
On November 9, 1909 – 100 years ago today – a 200 hp Benz became the first car to break the 200 km/h mark – and in the process went faster than any car, aeroplane or rail vehicle before. Victor Hémery went on to [...]
One of Riverside Raceway’s earliest and most enduring legendary figures, Carroll Shelby will be the gala honoree at the second annual “Legends of Riverside” gathering at the Riverside International Raceway Museum which will take place over [...]
The New Jersey Vintage Race – History of Speed was held October 2-4, 2009 on 2.25 mile Thunderbolt Raceway at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, New Jersey.
Sanctioned by SVRA, the New Jersey Vintage Races featured 10 groups, with [...]
The inaugural Algarve Historic Festival was held October 16-18, 2009 at the new Autódromo Internacional do Algarve in Portimao, Portugal. With 16 races for 12 Historic Racing Car categories, the Algarve Historic Festival was the biggest historic [...]
LeMay – America’s Car Museum recently appointed two new directors to the board at the board meeting held last month. Moray Callum, Executive Director of Ford America Design and Richard Davis, President and CEO of Standard Parts Corporation were both named to the LeMay [...]
Five very unique cars created by Detroit’s automakers are set for RM’s ‘Automobiles of Arizona’ event this coming January, including the 1954 Mercury XM-800 Dream Car, the 1956 Cadillac Maharani Motorama Show Car, a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado ‘Raindrop’ Dream Car, an all-original [...]
The Masterpiece – Style & Speed Showcase took place at Milwaukee’s Veteran’s Park on the shores of Lake Michigan on Saturday, August 22 and Sunday, August 23, 2009. The event raises funds for the programs and [...]
Houston trial attorney John O’Quinn, who has recently emerged as a towering figure in automotive and art purchases for a proposed museum, was killed in an automobile accident in Houston on Thursday, October 30.
O’Quinn [...]
Mecum’s annual Kansas City Auction will feature 500 collector cars and memorabilia up for bid on December 4-5, 2009. The auction has moved to a new location this year at the Kansas City Convention Center/Bartle Hall.
The Mecum Auction team is currently taking [...]
The La Carrera Panamericana was held October 23-29, 2009 over 3,600 kilometers and seven stages through 13 states in Mexico. Stig Blomqvist, 1984 World Rally Champion, won overall honors in a Studebaker.
Sweden made the 1-2 in the overall [...]
Story and photos by Simon Wright
The final round of the Historic Sports Car Club (HSCC) Historic Saloon Cars took place October 17th, 2009 at the Silverstone National circuit. The HSCC Historic Saloon Car Championship [...]
Despite the weather forecast for rain and gale force winds, nearly 500 intrepid veteran car owners made the start in Hyde Park for the 60-mile endurance to Brighton for the 2009 London [...]
Race Retro, the international historic motorsport show, will be held Friday, March 12th to Sunday, March 14th, 2010, returning to Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire. After its extremely successful first year as owners, organizer Live Promotions has chosen Alfa Romeo as its [...]
Sports Car Digest, Ed McDonough
