OVERVIEW:
Vintage Motorsport was a quality magazine covering North American historic racing along with 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 1981, not more than a dozen issues were published until it became a full-sized, bi-monthly magazine with the first issue in 1983. 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 has grown to over 100 pages with quality writing and well crafted photographs. This was all produced from Lakeland, Florida.

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 in 1990. His first vintage race car was an Allard J2X he bought in 1978. After selling Variety in 1987, he focused on vintage racing and collector cars. Mr Silverman was joined by 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 2012.

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. The team served Western advertisers from new offices in Scottsdale, Arizona. The publication later relocated from Lakeland in 2015, and Mr. Riggs continued as editor-in-chief.

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 239 issues was printed from January, 1983 through Feb/Mar, 2025. Magazine cover images are complete from the first full-sized premier issue through 2000. More issues will be added shortly. However 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.