If you want to have the meanest, baddest, highest-horsepower stallion allowed in the Ferrari Historic paddock, here it isThe F40 was a simple machine that, like the greatest Ferraris of the past, relied upon its engine for its performance. Suspe...
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The buzz at the auction was that this car was unusual and desirable in being completely ready to run with the F1 Clienti. The buyer bought it for that purposeFerrari entered 1990 with a dream driver lineup. Nigel Mansell was in his second season...
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Even if another road racer comes along claiming to be the Flower Power car, this one wears the right chassis and registration numbersFormula Ford was introduced in Great Britain in 1967 as a new form of poor man's motor racing. Written into its ...
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If you're racing a 911 and it's feeling twitchy in a high-speed turn, just hang in there, it will be okay. Above all, do NOT lift While the Porsche 911 has amassed an unmatched record of racing successes, its entry into road racing was not initi...
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It was a glorious combination of beauty, speed, sound, and comfort, a proper object of Gallic pride, and almost (but not quite) the equal of Porsche's 908Only three Matra 650s were built. After a successful racing career, one is kept in the Matr...
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It's shiny and extreme, weird, overdone, and in-your-face in a manner that puts a grin on you just walking around itSydney Allard's famous one-off hillclimb car, the 1947 Steyr-Allard, is the best known of all his vehicles. Allard competed in th...
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Though beautiful, the 6-cylinder, 121 LMs were overpowered, under-braked, evil-handling, notoriously unreliable, and historically unsuccessfulThis magnificent sports prototype Ferrari was the fifth and last of the select batch of 6-cylinder big-...
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Cars that were once wild girlfriends have become trophy wives, with all the cattiness that accompanies competitive collectingBy 1962, it was becoming clear that the 250 GTO was no longer competitive, and something completely new was required. So...
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Going, turning, sticking, and stopping were evident and well in hand, but keeping the Jaguar in one piece proved to be more difficult than anticipatedR alph Broad's racing team had excelled in touring car competition since the early 1960s, runni...
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If you want to do any serious competition, you'll need a 2-liter, 4-cam four, and that's a $100,000 projectHaving axed its expensive Formula One program at the end of 1962, Porsche turned once more to sports car racing as a means of improving an...
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It was left in a corner to be junked, but Guy Griffiths, the father of vintage racing everywhere, talked the factory into selling it to himBy 1960, Jaguar had won the world's most prestigious race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, five times-twice with ...
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We dropped Indy racer Mauricio Gugelmin into a big-block M8. When he came in, his eyes were like saucers, but Lord, he had a grin on his faceThe Elva-built McLarens, called M1A to distinguish them from the original McLaren prototype, were campai...
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Estate sales can recirculate heretofore unobtainable cars, which-absent their owners' passing-would have remained tucked away indefinitelyHarry Miller's name may not ring a bell as loudly as Ettore Bugatti's, but Bugatti acquired Miller race car...
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These difficult cars have finally gotten the development they didn't get when racing in anger and have become superb vintage racersIn 1968, the rules for sports car racing were changed, limiting Group 6 prototypes to a maximum 3-liter engine cap...
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A Kenyan safari guide tells of this car landing so nose down that everyone thought it was going to go end over endThis 1972 Ford Escort RS1600 Mk I comes to auction directly from the finish line of the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic r...
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