6/10/2010 - Free Racing With VSCDA

Everyone Gets An Additional Free Race at ELVF

Grand Rapids, MI - For the Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival September 10-12, 2010, the Sunday schedule has been adjusted to allow everyone to race in two 30-minute sessions - the addition of the Cup Races for the closed wheel cars and a special session for open wheel cars. That gives the racer twice the racing for no... Read more...

6/7/2010 - McLaren Will be Featured Marque for 2011

SONOMA, CALIF. - At the conclusion of an epic first-annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival, organizer General Racing, Ltd. announced that McLaren will be the events featured marque for the events second edition in 2011. The legendary name has graced the halls of motorsports since its famed founder Bruce McLaren of New Zealand founded the McLaren racing... Read more...

6/3/2010 - James Bond Aston Martin Comes to RM Auction

LONDON - RM Auctions announces the consignment of one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century the 1964 Aston Martin DB5 James Bond movie car to its annual Automobiles of London event at the Battersea Evolution in London on October 27, where it is available for sale for the first time in history and expected to achieve in excess of $5 mil... Read more...

5/26/2010 - SVRA Expands Group 10 Eligibility

Hanover, NH - The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has expanded the Group 10 eligibility to include WSC, LMP, GTP and DP Race cars through 2005. They must be period correct and the year of eligibility will be a rolling five years.

This change will be in effect for the upcoming Heacock Classic Gold Cup at VIR June 3-6, The Mid-Ohio Vintage Grand Pri... Read more...

5/20/2010 - One Car and a Million Memories

PEBBLE BEACH, CA - In the halcyon days of dry lakes racing, during the years just before and after World War II, young men with little money but remarkable intuitive engineering and a lot of enthusiasm built cars in their backyards that rivaled the performance of the best in the world. Before the term hot rod had been coined, they built some very hot cars. Read more...

4/30/2010 - Daytona Int'l Speedway to be Repaved Later This Year

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - For only the second time in its history, Daytona International Speedway will be repaved following the Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola in July, track president Robin Braig announced.

"This is a historic moment for NASCAR's most storied race track - Daytona International Speedway," Braig said. "Daytona was originally repaved in 1978 and... Read more...

4/29/2010 - VM Contributor Ted West's Debut Novel: Closing Speed

It was the fastest, most competitive European endurance-racing season ever - Ferrari, Porsche, Alfa Romeo, Matra - all battling wheel-to-wheel for the 1970 World Manufacturers Championship, and young American journalist Nick Thorne was there to cover it...

But when one spring afternoon he sprinted across a rain-slick German test track to rescue the World Cham... Read more...

4/16/2010 - Alfas at the Glen in September 2010

There is no shortage of events commemorating the century of the beloved marque, Alfa Romeo, in 2010 in the US.

On behalf of the organizers of "Alfas at the Glen '10," they'd like to encourage you to join them during the second weekend in September at the historic Watkins Glen Grand Prix Circuit for what is sure to be a great event! Read more...

4/15/2010 - Copperstate 1000 Blows 'Em Away

Photo: Tom Mittler's '55 D-Type Jaguar shows some new sandblasted patina on its nose and plexi headlight covers.

Scottsdale, AZ - Mother Nature in Arizona now has two strikes against her, as far as the collector car hobby may view it. Following record windstorms in January that uprooted tents and damaged a couple hundred classic cars at the Russo and Steele a... Read more...

4/14/2010 - 1979 Le Mans-Winning Porsche Lawsuit Settled

Chicago - Don Whittington, a former IMSA race car driver, lost his lawsuit to force the return of a Porsche on display at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum in Speedway, Indiana.

The car is a Porsche 935 K3 in which Whittington, his brother Bill and Klaus Ludwig won the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans in France.

Whittington claimed he only loaned th... Read more...