Van Order collection photos courtesy of Smithsonian magazine If you get an opportunity, pick up a copy of the April 2011 issue of Smithsonian magazine. In it, you will find an interesting article, “The Early, Deadly Days of Motorcycle Racing,” by David Schonauer, about board-track racing enthusiast and photographer Ashley Franklin Van Order. Van Order […]

Sir Stirling Moss will take to the track at Le Mans next month behind the wheel of his freshly repaired and race prepared 1961 Porsche RS 61, during the Le Mans Legend historic race. Moss bought the car back in March 2010 and entered it at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca last […]

As we noted earlier in the Class of 1986 series, that year saw the ushering in of plenty of digital-age technology and the ushering-out of plenty of stone-age technology. Case in point: the Mazda RX-7. Introduced for the American market in 1979, the RX-7 made prominent use of the company’s Wankel rotary engines, and that […]