The '65 Sebring Race was noteworthy for both rain and Jim Hall's Chaparral stealing the chequered from better-funded competitors Ford and Ferrari. While the big dogs slid through the slush, one little ...

In 1958,the United States launched its first successful satellite, Explorer 1, into orbit; the F-104 Starfighter set a new in-flight speed world record at Mach 1.4; and England's Austin-Healey sports ...

In 1959, the U.S. car market reached peak tail fin. That year’s Cadillac Eldorado took jet-age styling to the extreme, with rear fenders like fuselages, chrome bumpers sculpted into afterburners, and ...

Austin-Healey got its start in 1952 by means of a partnership between two automakers: Austin, which was by then part of the British Motor Corporation conglomerate, and Donald Healey Motor Company. By ...

The dashboard presents Mythron Cars’ own analog gauges. A close-up of the car’s drilled pedals. The 1,380 cc four-cylinder BMC A-series engine boasts a new cylinder head, high-compression pistons, and ...

Former race cars are always guaranteed hits when they wind up crossing the auction block. Be they big or small, everyone loves a machine that was used for the purpose it was built, and one that ...

With its cartoonish ‘Frogeye’ face, Lilliputian dimensions and 43hp engine, the Austin-Healey Sprite wasn’t the obvious starting point for a giant-killing race car. Yet this plucky roadster punched ...