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Audi Sport offering Le Mans and DTM cars to the public

Want to own a legendary Audi race car? Audi Sport will offer some from its stable.

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Restoration & Renovation: The realities of restoring a race car

Old race cars might live in grainy black and white, but bringing them into today’s world can require some hardnosed detective work–and some tough decisions.

Buyer's Guides: Buying a classic with racing history: What you need to know

Vintage race cars: another way to combine classic cars with classic memories.

Features: Why a NASCAR stock car could be the next big thing in vintage racing

In the market for a vintage racer that's both thrilling to drive and as safe as a bank vault? Why not try a vintage NASCAR Stock Car?

Features: Unable to find Dave MacDonald’s Corvette Special, he built his own

Dave MacDonald had the chops to become a motorsports legend. A fiery crash at Indy ended everything. Dr. Ernie Nagamatsu has since recreated MacDonald’s red Corvette Special.

Features: Relive the earliest days of motorsport with a Brass Era race car

Driving a Brass Era race car–like this E-M-F–is like driving a time machine to the earliest days of motorsport.

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Why’d we take our Porsche 911 to a Mazda event?

A chance to see–and hear–some legendary Mazda race cars? And for free?

Welcome to the 17th annual Race Exhibition at Orlando’s Classic Mazda. We’ve been attending since the earliest …

The final touches before we paint our Elva Mk VI racer

Our primary goal at this point was to finish our entire Elva Mk VI chassis and mechanical bits so that we could then disassemble everything and paint the frame.

Before painting …

Deducing the correct location to mount our Elva’s rebuilt fuel cell

Now that our Elva’s fuel cell had been restored by ATL, we needed to mount it. But how? There isn’t any kind of restoration manual for this.

While going …

How we restored the one-off fuel cell in our Elva Mk VI

As an endurance race car built to run the Sebring 12 Hours in 1962, our Elva Mk VI sports racer originally came equipped with twin side-saddle aluminum fuel tanks.

While …

How to fabricate brake lines for a vintage race car

This was going to be tough. We had no original parts to copy. We had no shop manual. We had no diagrams. 

What we did have was a whole bunch …

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