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You need this: Race-ready Datsun 1200

Prepped to compete in SCCA GT4, GT5 and C Sedan classes, this Datsun 1200 features race history dating back to the early 1970s.

You Need This: Renault Alliance Showroom Stock race car

When was the last time you saw a Renault Alliance on the road, let alone as a race car?

Watch us turn this pile of parts into a rare vintage racer

Did you know we're in the middle of restoring a one-of-30 Elva Mk VI–that's also a long-lost Sebring 12-Hour entry?

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Columns: Does racing history make a car more or less valuable?

Does racing history always equal more value? Or is there more to the equation than simply time on track?

Features: How to assemble a race-ready drivetrain

Assembling a drivetrain for a race car? Here's when you can save a few bucks–and when you shouldn't.

Features: Tips for stitching together a track-ready, bulletproof rear end

Items left on our Mustang’s to-do list: Source a rear axle and properly suspend it.

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Why’d we take our Porsche 911 to a Mazda event?

A chance to see–and hear–some legendary Mazda race cars? And for free?

Welcome to the 17th annual Race Exhibition at Orlando’s Classic Mazda. We’ve been attending since …

The final touches before we paint our Elva Mk VI racer

Our primary goal at this point was to finish our entire Elva Mk VI chassis and mechanical bits so that we could then disassemble everything and paint the frame.

Deducing the correct location to mount our Elva’s rebuilt fuel cell

Now that our Elva’s fuel cell had been restored by ATL, we needed to mount it. But how? There isn’t any kind of restoration manual for …

How we restored the one-off fuel cell in our Elva Mk VI

As an endurance race car built to run the Sebring 12 Hours in 1962, our Elva Mk VI sports racer originally came equipped with twin side-saddle aluminum fuel …

How to fabricate brake lines for a vintage race car

This was going to be tough. We had no original parts to copy. We had no shop manual. We had no diagrams. 

What we did have was a whole bunch …

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