The BMW CSL isn’t just one of the most beautiful and recognisable racing cars to have graced the tracks of the world during the 1970s: it also represented the start of a new era in the shape of BMW’s elite M racing division (formed in 1972 as BMW Motorsport GmbH) and the first use of [...]
What do you remember about the 1980s? What things does that decade make you think of? Were you even born then?! To some people, the decade recalls a new wave of questionable music, terrible fashion crimes, big hair, the rise of MTV and soap operas like Dallas. More seriously there were nuclear meltdowns, ill-thought out [...]
Inspiration; it’s a word we all use and understand, but I believe we seldom realize just how strongly it impacts our lives. No matter what it is we’re going through we draw inspiration from past experiences which inevitably define our future. In the world of cars inspiration is the common bond we as enthusiasts have [...]
I thought I’d post this shot, as I turn my attention to the upcoming Daytona 24Hs, a race which has gone through many different allegiances and phases over the years. As we enjoy this photo together, let’s think back to simpler times and imagine the sound that this little GTU racer made while screaming around [...]
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The other day we took a look at a record-breaking Dodge Daytona stock car from the Canepa collection, and today we have another historic stock car – albeit one built for an entirely different purpose. Back in the mid 1970s an effort was made by NASCAR to create a class for its cars in IMSA [...]
When I was born back in 1984 I took my first ride home from the hospital in the back seat of my parents' Chevrolet Monza. Somehow, I don't think that Monza was anything like the one you see here. I spotted this 1977 Dekon Budweiser Monza at the Sonoma Historics over the weekend and thought [...]
I'm sure you are familiar with "Sassy's" SA22C RX-7 out of Japan. We've shown the car a couple times over the past few years, and recently it was put up for sale. This one-off IMSA style beast is on the market for 1980000 yen, or about USD$24,000. International shipping is being offered, so it'll be [...]
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With the 12 Hours of Sebring happening this weekend in Florida, we thought we would put up another blast from the past as we did around the time of the Daytona 500. This time we have a selection of photos that Mark Windecker shot at the 1988 Sebring IMSA race. So, what did sports car [...]
When I was in my teens, every year I'd look forward to the six hour drive from Vancouver to Oregon, to watch the G.I. Joes Grand Prix at Portland International Raceway. It was an amazing time for sports car racing in America, with factory entries from Jaguar, Nissan, Toyota, and Ford as well as a [...]
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Twenty Years………….roughly a third of most people's adult life and yet it seems to have flashed by in the twinkling of an eye. Back in 1990 I had just left the advertising world and was working in Covent Garden for a design agency, we were so hip and so cutting edge or so we thought. [...]
Motorsport at the highest levels is a global activity, Formula One, Moto GP, World Rally, and in North America, NASCAR, all make headlines on TV and in the newspapers. Endurance racing is not at that global level but is dependent for success on a few events that have achieved classic status, Le Mans 24, Nuburgring [...]
Back in January when we did Mazda month, we ran a spotlight on this IMSA-styled SA22C RX7 out of Japan. At the time the car was done in semi-gloss black, but it's since been repainted in a glossy red. The guys from the 22C Works website sent us some photos of the remade car, and [...]
A couple weeks ago when I was at the Japanese Classic Car Show in Irvine, parked alongside the classic RX7's in Mazda's display I spotted this wild-looking MX-6. The normal MX-6 was a front wheel drive coupe that shared a platform with the Ford Probe, but the IMSA GTU race version was a just a [...]
I’m sure most of you guys are aware of the short but fruitful linkup between BMW and McLaren that produced the F1 Supercar, but this was not the first time these two companies worked together. Back in the 1970s McLaren had an American based racing team that was used for its Indianapolis campaigns. It was [...]
