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The SVRA’s Trans-Am class runs at Circuit of the Americas. Still image from video below. This year, the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association will host 18 vintage racing events from coast to coast, at which an estimated 5,000 drivers will participate. Given this captive market, a tie-in to an auction company Read more

Reader Rich Harris has an interesting trove of photos. Found in a rusted-shut cabinet drawer of a house about to be demolished, the anonymous photos depict a variety of subjects, including a number of street scenes in and around Rochester, New York, that Rich thought we’d enjoy poring over. Would Read more

Photos by Clint Davis, courtesy RM Auctions. Best known for his acting career, which earned him an Academy Award nomination at age 9, Jackie Cooper also had a passion for automobiles, particularly those from Austin-Healey. Already an Austin-Healey 100 owner (and racer) when the 100S was announced, Cooper was among Read more

Jackie Stewart driving the Ducarouge-designed Matra MS80, on his way to the 1969 F1 championship. Photo credit Lothar Spurzem. French aerospace engineer and accomplished Formula 1 and endurance car designer Gerard Ducarouge passed away February 19, in Neuilly, France, after a long illness. Born in 1941, Ducarouge studied engineering at Read more

Photos courtesy Robert Antolak. Robert Antolak knows well the main difference between the pony emblems that graced the Sixties Mustangs and the Seventies Mustang IIs (the latter had a tail that shot straight back, while the former had a little crook in it), and it’s not because he’s some Mustang Read more

Launched in 1978, Porsche’s 924 Turbo was meant to bridge the gap in both price and performance between its entry-level 924 and its range-topping 911. Though early models had reliability issues (compounded by owners unfamiliar with the care and feeding of turbocharged engines), by 1980 Porsche had sorted these out, Read more

* Once you get past the siren songs and the tautological arguments of the first few minutes of this circa 1953 GM video – not to mention the GM propaganda throughout – you actually get a pretty good look at the process of designing a car in the Fifties, from Read more

There’s a long history of using Crosley bodies in dragster builds, as we saw from the Carl Grimes De Oldsley that recently sold at auction, so this 1948 Crosley dragster for sale on Hemmings.com isn’t all that unexpected, even though it’s a much more extreme rendition of the pattern with Read more

* Was Duncan Hamilton drunk as a skunk during the running of the 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, as the tale goes? While we’d like to believe that racing was indeed a more lassez faire endeavor in the Fifties, Le Mans was just as important a motoring event as Read more

1955 Chrysler New Yorker. The days are finally getting longer, and while the mercury is stuck below freezing in Vermont, other parts of the country are starting to experience the first signs of spring. In a few weeks, it will be time to move the snowblower (and shovels) to the Read more