There’s never a dull year when it comes to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. However, the 1952 running of the famed endurance race featured some unique highlights, like Mercedes’ return after some 20 years and Pierre Levegh’s attempt to run the entire 24 Hours all by himself.
Relive the action with this film from the Shell Oil archives.
Love watching a project getting built from start to finish, but don’t have a lot of time to spare?
The building of this Can-Am-style race car has been condensed down into just two minutes.
(And if you have a few more minutes to kill, he drives it at the end of the video, too.)
The 1963 L.A. Times Grand Prix at Riverside attracted so many of the day’s heavy hitters: Dave MacDonald, Roger Penske, A.J. Foyt, Roger Ward, Dan Gurney, Augie Pabst, John Surtees, Jim Clark, Pedro Rodríguez, Bob Bondurant, Graham Hill and Parnelli Jones.
[Unable to find Dave MacDonald’s Corvette Special, he built his own]
It’s a time of open-face helmets, big-block sports racers and corners lined by half-buried tires.
The result of this joint arrangement with Porsche was the Mercedes-Benz 500E.
This flared, V8-powered sport sedan came out in 1990 and, today, enjoys status as a certified rad-era classic.
Looking for your first car but want something that stands out in a parking lot full of Priuses and Civics?
Here are five reasons why you should choose a classic as your first car, with Classic Motorsports Publisher Tom Suddard.
The perfect kind of spa day? How does a ride along in a Cosworth DFV V8-powered Chevron B27 as it takes on a very wet Spa-Francorchamps sound?
And yes, we recommend headphones for this one.
Don’t speak German? You’ll still recognize many of the names running at Nürburgring in 1971: Vic Elford, Jacky Ickx, Jo Siffert, Clay Regazzoni, Derek Bell, Larrousse, Pedro Rodriguez and more.
Plus, there’s the international language of speed and danger.
Sucker cars, velocity stacks and hot pants. Welcome to Road Atlanta in 1970, the first time the facility hosted the Can-Am series.
Who’d win? Likely not who you’d expect.
So you want a classic car, but want something that’ll stand out in a crowd?
Here are five picks from Classic Motorsports Editorial Director David S. Wallens.
The ’80s were wacky times–especially when it came to the day’s Group B rally scene.
[Homologated rally specials: When crazy ruled the streets]
You had diabolically fast, factory-built rally cars from many of Europe’s top brands, all operating on the ragged edge of grip through courses lined with something rather soft and squishy: insanely passionate fans.
The ’80s might have been a while ago, but this footage shows that the passion lives on in today’s age of cell phones and digital footage.
