9/13/2012 - America's Car Museum to Stay Open Seven Days a Week, Year-Round

TACOMA, WA - LeMay - America-s Car Museum (ACM), which opened its four-level, 165,000-sq-ft facility in early June, is reacting to increasing demand and will continue to operate from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day, year-round. This decision trumps the museum's original plan, which was to shift from seven to five days a week during the fall and winter months. Read more...

9/12/2012 - Larry H. Miller Total Performance Museum Acquires Legendary Ford GT40

TOOELE VALLEY, UT - The Larry H. Miller Total Performance Museum, located at Miller Motorsports Park announced the acquisition of Ford GT40 No. P-1074, one of the famous Gulf Era cars that were campaigned in major international sports car races during 1968-69 by England's J.W. Automotive.

It joins one of the world's foremost collections of significant Fords a... Read more...

9/5/2012 - 83-Year-Old Lee Talbot Wins The Rolex Award at Historic Festival 30

Lime Rock, CT – The 30th Vintage Festival at Lime Rock Park was something of an octogenarian showcase, as 82-year-old Lee Talbot took home the coveted Rolex Award at the post-race driver's awards gathering, while 82-year-old Sir Stirling Moss was the hardest-working man at the track all weekend, opening each day driving laps with wife Susie in the Osc... Read more...

8/21/2012 - Porsche Steps Up Vintage Motorsports Activities

Salinas, CA - With the famed Monterey Motorsports Reunion as backdrop, Porsche Motorsport North America (PMNA) announced it will expand from serving teams and owners of contemporary 911 race cars to providing a similar service to the large number of collectors of vintage Porsche race cars in the U.S. and Canada. PMNA has established a partnership with a new... Read more...

2/23/2012 - Looking Back 60 years to the First Mercedes-Benz 300 SL

Mercedes-Benz 300 SL was the designation of the competition race car from Mercedes-Benz with which the brand returned to international motor sports in 1952 for the first time after World War II. And although this car was not sold to the public, it did light the fuse for the development of the later SL-Class from Mercedes-Benz.

The development of the 300 SL be... Read more...

12/14/2011 - VM's Yates and Stahler Win Batchelor Awards

Tom Stahler (left) accepts the Best of the Year award from MPG's Kevin Smith for his Vintage Motorsport article, The Questor Grand Prix.photo by Pete Lyons for MPG

Los Angeles - The Motor Press Guild presented its 2011 Dean Batchelor Awards for Excellence in Automotive Journalism at the Petersen Automotive Museum here Dec. 13.

The Dean Batchelor Lifetime Achie... Read more...

5/2/2011 - Indy In The 1950s

Who knew back then that the drivers and cars wouldn't last forever but their memories would? Certainly not I, a pudgy kid from New England, who was lucky enough to attend every Indy 500 from 1955 to 1961. It all started around September of 54, when a sore throat made my dad keep me home on Saturday night when we were supposed to watch the Bomber Stocks race... Read more...

7/6/2009 - Keep On Truckin'

Stuttgart - The classic "Silver Arrows" by Mercedes-Benz are icons of the 1930s. Racing cars such as the W 25, the W 125, the W 154 and the W 165, but also drivers like Manfred von Brauchitsch, Rudolf Caracciola and Hermann Lang, were right in the forefront of the motor racing world in those days. Other vehicles were rather less prominent, but also had a str... Read more...

5/8/2009 - Darlington Legends - Million Dollar Bill

DARLINGTON, S.C. (May 1, 2009) Bill Elliott wasnt exactly daydreaming that evening in 1984 when RJ Reynolds Tobacco president Gerry Long laid out the guidelines for the Winston Million bonus, but he might have been excused for not giving Long his full attention.Elliotts head wasnt elsewhere. He just didn't think Long's terms applied. Read more...

3/18/2009 - Darlington Legends - Junior Johnson

Darlington, S.C. - Ask racing legend Junior Johnson who his best driver was at Darlington Raceway, and you have to add the codicil, "present company excepted."

Picking No. 2 is hard, he said. But No. 1?"I always thought I was the best," Johnson said, chuckling. "I just didn't have the patience."

Johnson is justified in his self-assessment, and right, too. The... Read more...