Winging over the scrub-clad dunes, it looked like a space invader executing a terrifying attack on a remote outpost. We had never even imagined such an otherworldly apparition. Yet here…

Phil Hill, who in September 1961 became America’s first Formula 1 world drivers’ champion, began his climb to the top 11 years earlier with his maiden significant victory. That happened…

I don’t think the idea ever was to make money. It was to make an art piece, an active art piece which was not only attractive but high performing, and…

Why does the short-lived Can-Am still remain fresh in the memory after 50 years? | writer Pete Lyons Chaparral, Lola, McLaren, Porsche, Shadow… such marques gave us the big, bellowing, basically unlimited…

McKee (1966-69) Bob McKee was an Indy 500 mechanic in 1961 when he performed one of the first-ever swaps of an American V8 into a British chassis, making a Cooper-Buick…

From Jalopies to stock cars, Baja to the Brickyard, Parnelli Jones could drive anything, anywhere. Pete Lyons catches up with a US motorsport colossus Say the name, and even after…

It was something of a dream come true when Pete Lyons was invited to drive a Can-Am Shadow. Once he got moving, he made a major discovery… Exploring the narrow…