COUNTACH!!
THE WORD ABOVE IS DISPLAYED IN ITALICS to emphasize contacc, its Piedmontese meaning roughly “WOW!!” As noted by the car’s designer Marcello Gandini, the word literally means ‘plague,’ ‘contagion,’ and … Continue reading
A TRIP BACK TO NASCAR—1982
“BEFORE OUR TRIP TO CHARLOTTE, I probably couldn’t have challenged one of that city’s average 10-year-olds with my NASCAR knowledge.” Indeed, it’s even less so for me today 43 years … Continue reading
“WINDOW; WINDOW IN THE TEST; WHO’S AMONG THE VERY BEST?” PART 2
YESTERDAY, THE 1982 R&T BOUND VOLUME brought back memories of tire testing. We continue here with details of our hard-working tire-changing crew, confidence windows, blind testing, and an R&T visit … Continue reading
“WINDOW; WINDOW IN THE TEST; WHO’S AMONG THE VERY BEST?” PART 1
I WAS RECENTLY RESEARCHING SOMETHING OR OTHER in the 1982 bound volume of R&T and came upon this subhead cited above. It brought memories of a significant achievement during my … Continue reading
WHAT A LITTLE SWEETHEART! PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, WE BEGAN DESCRIBING the Fiat 508S Balilla Corsa, its Balilla moniker honoring an 18th-century Italian patriot. Today, Classic & Sports Car’s Richard Heseltine focuses on the … Continue reading
WHAT A LITTLE SWEETHEART! PART 1
“CHE PICCOLA DOLCEZZA!,” GOOGLE TRANSLATE offered, eventually. And Richard Heseltine’s writeup of the “Fiat 508S Balilla Corsa,” Classic & Sports Car, October 16, 2025, certainly fits this description. What’s more, … Continue reading
FERRARI 212 VIGNALE SALON AND CLASSIC TEST
I’VE GROWN ENAMORED OF R&T’S CLASSIC TESTS, what the magazine termed accurate syntheses “of material published during the time the car was produced.” Recently, this R&T time machine was actuated … Continue reading
1934 ALFA ROMEO 2.3 MILLE MIGLIA: SALON (AND ROAD TEST, SORTA)
“THIS CAR TURNS OUT TO BE THE FIFTH ALFA ROMEO PASSENGER CAR which appeared on R&T’s cover,” the magazine recounted in September 1958. (Indeed, R&T Vol. 1 No. 1, July … Continue reading
MERCEDES-BENZ 300-SL ROADSTERS—1958 AND 50 YEARS HENCE
“TURN RIGHT AT THE VALKYRIE, AND Drive Straight to Valhalla,” read R&T’s subhead for its January 1958 Road Test of the 300-SL Roadster. Image from “Brooklands Double Twelve,” SimanaitisSays, … Continue reading
Simanaitis Says 
R&T/B&B TESTS THE POGUAR
“ALTHOUGH IT MAY BE ARGUED,” Bounce & Bound wrote in January 1955, “that the scrutiny of a road test crew should be confined to the technical and performance aspects of … Continue reading →