OVERVIEW:
Vintage Motorsport was a quality magazine covering North American and international historic racing events. In its first form, it was a newsletter published by the Southeast Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) and its president Ford Heacock. Starting production in 1982, not more than a dozen issues were published until it became a full-sized, bi-monthly magazine with the first issue in 1984. The title used the tag line, "The Journal of Motor Racing History", and it included historic race car profiles, event coverage, classified ads, auction information and product ads. Starting with 50 pages, it grew to over 100 pages with quality writing and well crafted photographs. This was all produced from Lakeland, Florida.

Mr Heacock was an early adopter of desktop publishing technology in the 1980s. He observed the disjointed work required to layout and publish the magazine. The use of an Apple MacIntosh greatly streamlined the process, and Time magazine highlighted Vintage Motorsport for this pioneering effort that ultimately revolutionized the publishing industry.

OWNERSHIP:
The founder was Ford Heacock, a serious automotive enthusiast who was influenced by his family's involvement in early international endurance races. Ford's father was the first chairman of the Sebring 12 Hours of Endurance event and managed the Sebring International Raceway Hall of Fame.

Then along came Syd Silverman. His first vintage race car was an Allard J2X he bought in 1978. After selling Variety magazine in 1987, he focused on vintage racing and collector cars. He became Chairman and the majority shareholder in the magazine in 1990. Silverman's capital allowed the title to expand its staffing and hire respected writers and photographers. Jay Lamm took over the editor role from Art Eastman, and Mr. Lamm did seven issues before Mr Silverman hired D. Randy Riggs in 1997 as the editor. Syd continued vintage racing until 2007, and subsequently turned over controlling interest of the publishing business to his son, Mike, in 2011.

Mike Silverman, also an active vintage racer since 2000, became the general manager of the title in 2002. He took control of the magazine and became the President & CEO in 2011 as noted above. The team established its new headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona, and the publication later closed the Lakeland facility in 2015.

In June, 2019, Paul Pfanner and his Racer Media & Marketing entity purchased Vintage Motorsport from Mr. Silverman. Racer Media continued to expand the magazine until the announcement in April, 2025 that the magazine had been ended with the Feb/Mar 2025 issue. Content was folded into Racer Media's sister publication, Racer.

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PUBLICATION DATA:
The publisher did NOT provide net paid circulation data to Oxbridge Communication's The Standard Periodical Directory prior to 2005 (which is the latest date which the author of this website has publication data).

CONTENT COMPLETENESS:
A total of 237 issues was printed, excluding annual editions, from January, 1984 through Feb/Mar, 2025. Magazine cover images are complete through the end of print production except volume 2 numbers 2 and 3, volume 3 numbers 2 and 3, and volume 4 number 2. Also note that we do NOT have a full set of the early newsletter covers published by the SVRA.

INTERNET:
An internet presence was created and the URL noted on the front covers starting in January, 2000. The website was www.vintagemotorsport.com, and it now redirects to racer.com.