Stovebolt Special Returns to Pebble Beach Decades after Historic Run in Last Road RaceHWM Race Car Made First Road Racing Use of a Chevy V8 PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFORNIA (April 22, 2026) — At the drop of the green flag, in what was to be the very last road race at Pebble Beach although no one… Continue reading Stovebolt Special to Pebble Beach
Month: April 2026
Simca MG 1955. Frank Monise
Here’s a photo off Facebook of Frank Monise Sr. in his Simca powered by MG in 1955. His son Howard Monise writes, 22 June 2024: “My dad’s hobby was racing various cars over 40+ years. This pic is from a sports car race at Goleta Airport in Santa Barbara, September 1955. I love the old… Continue reading Simca MG 1955. Frank Monise
1954 Satecmo Eolia
André Georges Claude—son of the renowned physicist Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light and liquid air, and himself a brilliant engineer—decided to build a brand-new, entirely French “customer-competition” racing car… an engineer’s flight of fancy, in short! Indeed, as the head of SATECMO—a company specializing in the tuning of 4CV engines—and the designer of… Continue reading 1954 Satecmo Eolia
Ken Miles MG Special R2 The Flying Shingle
Ken Miles had moved from England to California in 1952 and began racing MG TDs for his employer Gough Industries which led to his first MG-based special, the R1 (https://dmtrg.com/ken-miles-mg-special-r1/). Miles was a brilliant race engineer, from car design and construction to race prep and suspension set-up, and also a ferociously quick race driver, culminating… Continue reading Ken Miles MG Special R2 The Flying Shingle
Ken Miles MG Special R1
Ken Miles’s MG Special R1 is a defining example of post-war American road-racing ingenuity and the earliest expression of Ken Miles’ engineering brilliance. Designed and built in California, R1 was created with one goal: to defeat the Barlow Simca Specials and the faster MG Specials dominating the 1500cc and Under class larger, through balance, lightness,… Continue reading Ken Miles MG Special R1
Ken Miles
Ken Miles – from MG Pebble Beach Road Race specials to the Ford GT40 at Le Mans Kenneth Henry Jarvis Miles (1 November 1918 – 17 August 1966) was an English sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the U.S. and with American teams on the international scene. He… Continue reading Ken Miles