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Andy Warhol Cars Exhibition Featured

Andy Warhol Cars Exhibition Featured

An exhibition examining Andy Warhol’s fascination with automotive vehicles as products of American consumer society is on display until May 13, 2012 at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Warhol and Cars: American Icons exhibit features more than forty drawings, paintings, photographs and related archival material spanning from 1946 to 1986. The exhibition [...]

IMRRC to Celebrate Elva

IMRRC to Celebrate Elva

The car whose name means “she goes” will be the focus of activities on April 21-22, 2011 at the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen. The Elva is described as “deceptively simple—and surprisingly competitive” by the publisher of an award-winning book about the marque, Elva: The Cars, The People, The History, by racing [...]

George Follmer Receives RRDC Phil Hill Award

George Follmer Receives RRDC Phil Hill Award

George Follmer, who has competed in virtually every form of auto racing and is considered one of the sport’s living legends, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with the 2012 Phil Hill Award. RRDC president Bobby Rahal presented Follmer with the award at a dinner prior to the running of the Rolex 24 [...]

Porsche Museum Celebrates 911 Identity

Porsche Museum Celebrates 911 Identity

For more than four decades, the Porsche 911 has been deemed an automotive icon and the epitome of the sports car. That means that the launch of the new Type 991 is an important event for the Porsche Museum Stuttgart as well. As a curtain raiser for 2012, the new generation is being welcomed as [...]

Louwman Museum – Profile and Photos

Report and photos (unless noted) by Peter Helbach The Louwman Museum was opened by HRH Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on July 2, 2010. This opening marked the culmination of eight years of very hard work by Mr. Evert Louwman and his management team, led by Museum director Ronald Kooyman. Regulations being what they are, [...]

Ford of Britain 100th Anniversary – Photo Gallery

Ford of Britain 100th Anniversary – Photo Gallery

On 8 March 1911, just three years after Ford’s ‘Universal Car’, the Model T, was unveiled in Britain, Ford Motor Company (England) Limited was incorporated to look after the most important market outside North America. Ford’s start in Britain had humble beginnings. In 1903 two Ford Model A cars were shipped to England and a [...]

Enzo Ferrari Museum to Open in Modena

Enzo Ferrari Museum to Open in Modena

A museum dedicated to Enzo Ferrari and motorsport will open March 10, 2012 in Modena, Italy. The Enzo Ferrari House Museum will open its doors to the public with an exhibition titled, “The Origins of the Myth” that will explore the story of Enzo Ferrari the man, the driver and the constructor. “It is with [...]

Happy Holidays from Sports Car Digest

Happy Holidays from Sports Car Digest

Sports Car Digest is taking a break for the holidays, but we will be back in the New Year with the latest and greatest from the classic car world, including previews of Arizona Auction Week, a profile of the 1967 24 Hours of Daytona by Louis Galanos and much more. In the interim, we will [...]

The Daimler Archives – History Preserved

The Daimler Archives – History Preserved

The foundation of a corporate archive in 1936 was a necessary step for the then Daimler-Benz AG. The timing was chosen for its symbolic significance – exactly 50 years after the invention of the automobile. The aim was to preserve this half-century using the documentary records and lay the groundwork for collecting these kinds of [...]

Mercedes-Benz Museum – Profile and Photos

By Leigh Dorrington The Mercedes-Benz Museum at the company’s headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany is a depository of the history of the automobile, motorsport, commercial transportation and the Twentieth Century altogether, presented in one of the most modern museums in the world. Two names, Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, stand above all others in the company’s [...]

Ralph Lauren Car Collection For Sale

Ralph Lauren Car Collection For Sale

Several prominent cars from the famed Ralph Lauren Collection are currently offered for sale, and at prices that will make you jump for your wallet. For a mere $9,500, you can have your choice between the Ferrari 250 GTO, Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic, McLaren F1 GTR or Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa. The only catch [...]

Porsche GT3R Hybrid by Spark – Model Car Profile

By Will Silk Spark Models has been around for a little over a decade now, and recently the company released a 1:43 scale replica of Porsche’s all new GT3R Hybrid racing car. Selecting the GT3R Hybrid to model in 1:43 scale offers Porsche enthusiasts the opportunity to snatch what is probably the most technologically innovative [...]

Lotus Race Car Donated to LeMay Museum

Lotus Race Car Donated to LeMay Museum

A 1965 Lotus 35 Climax powered Tasman Series/Formula 2 race car has been added to the collection of automobiles at the LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM), courtesy of a donation by John and Marilyn Dimmer. ACM, set to hold its grand opening in June 2012, took delivery of the race car in time to [...]

Phil Hill Tribute at Peterson Museum – Report and Photos

Phil Hill Tribute at Peterson Museum – Report and Photos

Report by Art Evans and photos as noted On the night of November 10, 2011 a Tribute to Phil Hill was held at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. The occasion — organized by Bruce Meyer’s Checkered Flag 200 group that supports the museum — celebrated the 50th anniversary of Phil becoming America’s first [...]

Advertising with Sports Car Digest in 2012

Advertising with Sports Car Digest in 2012

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Stolen Porsche 930 Found After 23 Years

Stolen Porsche 930 Found After 23 Years

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers assigned to the Outbound Enforcement Team (OET) at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport seized a 1976 Porsche 930 Turbo that was reported stolen in Las Vegas, Nevada nearly 23 years ago. CBP officers discovered the vehicle after targeting and examining a container scheduled to be exported to the [...]

New Exhibit at BMW Museum

New Exhibit at BMW Museum

The BMW Museum in Munich is devoting a special exhibition to the development of the big BMW Coupes and Convertibles, starting October 28, 2011 and running through the end of September 2012. Entitled “The Line of Beauty”, it features 14 outstanding exhibits that span the years 1937 to 2011 and take visitors on a historical [...]

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