In words and pictures, veteran motorsports journalist Pete Lyons has spent decades covering such classic events as the Daytona and Le Mans 24 Hours, Sebring’s 12 hour, the Indy 500 and F1 Grands Prix all over the world. The original Can-Am series of 1966-1974 was a personal favorite, and yielded experiences which Pete has set […]
This past weekend’s F.A.S.T. races at Englishtown, while thoroughly entertaining, almost didn’t merit a headline. We saw plenty of 10-second runs from several of the racers, but despite near-perfect weather, the best they could muster throughout Saturday’s runs and most of Sunday’s runs were timeslips in the 10.30s, a good distance from the 10.18 record. […]
What’s most remarkable about early customs – and I’m talking those from the 1930s through the 1950s – is that the guys customizing them weren’t fiddling with cars more than a year or two old. It had to have taken some fortitude to lower and chop the top of a brand-new car, as Charles Marr […]