From Vintage Motorsport issue 19.4-Jul/Aug 2019Photo: Riverside Records Album "Sounds of Sebring 1958"Vroom, vroom! My curiosity with engine sounds probably began as a toddler when the occasional DC-3 would fly over our home. I always looked to the sky at the sound of those radial engines and loved them even...

From Vintage Motorsport issue 07.3-May/Jun 2007Photo: Watkins Glen, Oct. 7, 1979—Clay Regazzoni (red jacket) watches as Alan Jones' pit stop goes all wrong with the right rear wheel nut not secure, Jones losing the wheel half a lap later.Working out of my home office these days, I am more covert...

There’s a tremendous amount of excitement brewing for the upcoming Mecum Monterey Auction scheduled to take place August 18-20 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa. The setting is on the lawns of Del Monte Golf Course, where perusing the vehicles up for auction is easy on the feet,...

Main photo: The No. 50 Pontiac Tempest driven by Paul Goldsmith sits on pole as the field takes its warm-up lap on the Daytona Speedway oval. Billy Krause is outside in the Mickey Thompson Corvette Sting Ray. Back in 1963, a specially built Pontiac Tempest driven by Paul Goldsmith set...

Legendary motorcycle racer Paul Smart passed away Oct. 27 following a road traffic collision while riding his motorcycle in East Sussex and Kent near his home in England. He was 78.A much-loved and respected racer, Smart was best known for winning the 1972 Imola 200 for Ducati, but he also...

Photo: D. Randy RiggsYvon DuHamel, one of the leading motorcycle racers of the 1960s and ’70s, passed away August 17 at age 81 in Montreal, Quebec.French Canadian DuHamel began racing in the late 1950s on a BSA Gold Star, and by the mid-’60s was competing in the U.S. at major...

Photo: Motorsport ImagesOn behalf of Road Racing Drivers Club President Bobby Rahal, I am disappointed to have to tell you that with Los Angeles County requiring masks to be worn indoors, allied to the current climate of uncertainty regarding the COVID virus and, especially, the Delta variant, we have reached...

This 1968 Sunoco Camaro was looking good in the hands of Chuck Lampe. Photo: Bill StolerMalcolm Rutherford raced the No. 36 Rutherford Special, a car his father built and raced back in the day. Photo: Bill StolerCarl Whitney brought out a crowd favorite, the tiny brushed aluminum 1955 Lotus Mk...

Jacksonville, FL -- A 1926 Hispano-Suiza H6B Cabriolet and 1974 Shadow DN4 (above) were crowned this year’s Best in Shows at the 26th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. The Concours was moved from its original March date to May to take advantage of the lessening of Covid restrictions, returning to...

John Jeffrey races his colorful ’72 Datsun 240Z in Friday action at Summit Point Raceway.Summit Point, WV--According to VM Senior Photographer Bill Stoler, it seems like old times at the Jefferson 500 this weekend—perfect weather accompanied by an amazing turnout of racers and fans. Stoler said, "I've never seen so...