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Since 1974, the Indianapolis 500 -- the world's oldest currently contested auto race -- had been run on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, weather permitting. The race, first held [...]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what about a book of pictures? Four of the seven books reviewed here are mostly photographs. Others include a history of the […]

The decision by the Danbury Mint last month to stop selling die-cast model cars was symptomatic of a more serious shrinkage in a market where the vehicles are already pretty [...]

This book appears to have been published to coincide with Ron Howard's movie ''Rush,'' which dramatizes the battle for the 1976 Formula One drivers championship between James Hunt of England [...]

For car and motorcycle enthusiasts a book can be a lasting and appreciated gift, but what book? These six reviews can help in sorting through publishers' recent offerings. Among them [...]

Books, even those about cars and motorcycles, cover the world. These titles, culled from publishers' recent offerings, chronicle things like Volkswagen's global history, Detroit muscle cars, racing in the wet [...]

Ralph Sanchez, a Cuban-born businessman who brought auto racing to the streets of Miami in the 1980s and later built a major speedway in a city devastated by Hurricane Andrew, [...]

Jim Clark and Lotus. Michael Schumacher and Ferrari. Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull. Postwar grand prix racing offers many examples of particular drivers and particular cars coming together at the [...]

Fernando Alonso, the Spaniard who is the last man standing between Sebastian Vettel and a third consecutive Formula One championship, stopped in New York on Tuesday on his way to [...]

CARROLL SHELBY The Authorized Biography By Rinsey Mills 40 black-and white and 25 color photographs. 464 pages. Motorbooks. $35. SHELBY COBRA FIFTY YEARS By Colin Comer. Foreword by Carroll Shelby. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED BOOKS about cars and motorsports can be very specific, zeroing in on a single model, a single innovator or a single racecourse. And they can be very broad, [...]

The heart of South Norwalk, Conn., rows of buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries on Washington and South Main Streets, packs a lot into a compact area. [...]

DAYTONA 24 HOURS The Definitive History of America's GreatestEndurance Race By J. J. O'Malley. Foreword by Hurley Haywood. 384 color and 94 black-and-white photographs. 452 pages. David Bull Publishing. $99.95. [...]

WALTER L. MARR Buick's Amazing Engineer By Beverly Rae Kimes and James H. Cox. 107 black-and-white photographs and illustrations, 4 in color. 214 pages. Racemaker Press. $36. BILLY DURANT Creator […]

THE pitfalls facing collectors who buy restored classics are well documented -- although in some cases, the problems occur because the cars themselves are not very well documented. Even if […]

The last few yards of stock-car racing's Tobacco Road heritage were finally paved over last Wednesday when Petty Enterprises, a team dating from the start of Nascar in 1949, announced […]

LIME ROCK PARK, the road-racing circuit in northwestern Connecticut, would not pass for most people's idea of a country club. There are no fairways or greens (unless you count the […]

SAM HORNISH JR., the 2006 Indianapolis 500 winner, is still on the fence about whether he will stick with Indy-car racing next season or switch to the far more popular […]

The Classic Era By Beverly Rae Kimes Illustrated. 720 pages. Classic Car Club of America, 2001. The author presents a detailed year-by-year rundown of the American and European auto industry […]

THERE is no one secret to getting your car to live to a ripe old odometer reading. Luck could get you there, but it is no surprise that many vehicles […]

DAN LaRUSSO, a car salesman who lives in Danbury, Conn., and Gene Pentenero, a semiretiree from White Plains, were among dozens of hot-rod owners who gathered by the harbor in […]

STANDING in the paddock at the Lime Rock Park road racing circuit in northwestern Connecticut, Mark Starr, a car salesman, talked last month about the sure-fire deal closer he uses […]

Every summer the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and the Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races draw large crowds of auto enthusiasts to the Monterey Peninsula in California. They come not just […]

AUTO racing may not offer the equivalent of a golfer shooting his age, but John Fitch, who turned 89 last week, plans something like it in October. That is when […]

Janet Guthrie A Life at Full Throttle By Janet Guthrie. Introduction by Billie Jean King. Illustrated. 398 pages. SportClassic Books. $24.95. It wasn't only her sex that set Janet Guthrie […]

THE low-slung Ford GT sits in the Manhattan Automobile Company's showroom, looking as if it is ready to leap out the doors and pounce onto an unsuspecting taxicab passing by […]

HARDY RISTAU traveled all the way from Berlin to a Holiday Inn in Stamford, Conn., on a spring Sunday searching for the next $10,000 car. Like the dozens of other […]

SPRING ON SKIS -- Beaver Creek, Colo., has skiing packages for spring. For example, from April 4 to 10, up to four children 12 or younger get free skiing and […]

The people who turned frat-house behavior into a publicly traded company are now in the travel business. National Lampoon Inc., which gave us 'Animal House' and 'Van Wilder,' has created […]

EUROPE WITH A GUIDE -- The weather may not be ideal for these tours, but February departures of E.E.I. Travel's escorted trips to Europe start at $649 for six nights' […]

JANUARY IN THE CARIBBEAN -- The Grace Bay Club, a 21-suite Caribbean resort for couples on Providenciales, an island in the Turks and Caicos, has two packages in January that […]

A MEASURE of the Internet's influence is its ability to transform even low-tech activities, the kind where the word digital applies to your 10 fingers. Consider model-car building. People of […]

AN EXTRA DAY, PART I -- Paris by Design, a company in Cambridge, Vt., that sets up individualized tours to that city, will provide two days' services for the price […]

Casey Fenton says he has never seen 'The Man Who Came to Dinner.' Maybe he should, to understand the potential risks in his newest venture, the CouchSurfing Project, in which […]

Heathrow to Stansted Q. We will be making a flight transfer near London. Could you tell us the best way to get from Heathrow Airport to Stansted? Also, we will […]

Nothing beats a free ride, especially in this summer of elevated fuel prices. And opportunities exist in tourist hubs on both coasts. In preparation for the 400th anniversary of the […]

Spend Rosh Hashanah mountain biking and hiking in Colorado? That's the option offered by Rabbi Jamie Korngold, in Boulder, Colo., founder of a tour company called Adventure Rabbi: a Synagogue […]

Greyhound Lines has announced that beginning Aug. 18, it will eliminate bus service to about 260 locations in 13 states from Illinois to Washington. The reduction represents about 10 percent […]

For up-to-the-minute news of earth-shaking events, the best place to go in New York is the American Museum of Natural History. Since June 23, the new seismography exhibit has been […]

In June, the Waldorf-Astoria began free tours on the first Saturday of the month. Demand was strong enough that the hotel has added two tours on July 17 and Aug. […]

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Royal Horticultural Society, the leading gardeners' group in one of the most garden-loving nations on earth, England. There is no shortage of […]

Jim Vaill, who built the bucolic Lime Rock Park track, a mecca for sports-car racing in an otherwise quiet valley in northwestern Connecticut, died Tuesday in Sharon, Conn. He was […]

THE comedian George Carlin has observed that all the other drivers on the road fall into one of two categories: idiots or lunatics. The former are the slowpokes blocking you; […]