American Briggs Swift Cunningham’s ambition to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans has been told and retold. Cunningham’s efforts landed him on the cover of TIME magazine in April 1954. But the range of automobiles the B.S. Cunningham Co. designed and built for Le Mans was extraordinary, in a...

When entrepreneur, sailor and auto racer Briggs Cunningham was granted two entries for the 1950 24 Hours of Le Mans, the easy option would have been to buy a couple of European-made sports cars. But Cunningham wanted his debut in the French endurance classic to be an all-American affair, instead...