Dan Gurney’s All-American Week At Le Mans and Spa, 50 Years Ago
Dan Gurney’s All-American Week At Le Mans and Spa, 50 Years Ago
By John Lamm
(Revs Institute is re-publishing this story,...
Total Immersion – Two New Museum Tours in 2018
“What can you say about a given car in one minute?” - For Ralph Stoesser, an 18-year docent at Revs Institute, this is the...
Inside Track…inside Phil Hill’s racing world
At Revs Institute we love automotive history and are committed to making it accessible and user-friendly. We’ve just reworked...
Ringing Out One Year, Ringing in Another at Revs
By John Lamm
If words like “museum,” “collection” and “archive” conjure up images of dust and solitude,...
Collier Collection Cars on the Corkscrew Curve; Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca turns 60
Laguna Seca Raceway’s history began with a death. Braking hard for Turn 6 on the Pebble Beach road course, Ernie McAfee lost...
The Monster of Le Mans
What’s in a (car) name? Testa Rossa (red head) for the red cam covers on Ferrari race cars. Mustang for a high-spirited pony...
London to Capetown in a Hillman Minx: A Journey Through Space and Time
The car itself no longer exists. Both make and model were discontinued long ago and are now mostly, perhaps mercifully, forgotten.
Many...
What’s a Trabant doing at Revs Amid the Duesies and Bugattis?
We were close to tears. We were in Berlin watching the Western Allies’ Checkpoint Charlie being decommissioned. The Berlin...
Behind the Headlights: 1929 Mercedes-Benz SSK
If asked about the most desirable Porsche, some collectors might cite the Porsche 356 Speedster, which helped establish the Porsche...