IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME…. PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE AND PETER BOHR DISCUSSED a 1973 Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV, one of R&T’s Long-Term Affordable Classics in 1987. Today in Part 2, we see what Peter Egan had … Continue reading
IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME…. PART 1
READER IAN OF ALBERTA ASKED ABOUT ONE OF OUR LONG-TERM AFFORDABLE CLASSICS, an Alfa Romeo; the other was an MGB. Indeed, though I recalled the MGB, I barely remembered the … Continue reading
CARS AND AIRPLANES…. AND MEMORIES PART 2
CLASSIC & SPORTS CAR STARTED ALL THIS with its “22 Cars That Share Their Names With Aeroplanes.” We continue here in Part 2 with Comets, Vegas, Aerostars, and Concordes. 1962 … Continue reading
CARS AND PLANES…. AND MEMORIES PART 1
MY FAVORITE CAR MAGAZINE, THE BRIT Classic & Sports Car offers an interesting array of cars and planes that share monikers. Sure, there are familiar ones like the Ford/North American … Continue reading
TOMMY HANN’S 1911 LANCHESTER “HOIEH-WAYEREH-GOINTOO”
A PHOTO AND CAPTION IN ANTHONY BIRD’S “LANCHESTER 38 & 40” in Classic Car Profiles: Vol. 1, Profile Publications Limited, 1965, encouraged me into this merry search: Here are tidbits … Continue reading
FERRARI GTSi—BEAUTY IS ITS OWN EXCUSE
APPEALING TO THE CLASSICS, R&T CITED IN 1981, “EMERSON WROTE THAT ‘Beauty is its own excuse for being.’ Some automotive enthusiasts feel that the same can be said for exoticars—such … Continue reading
CELEBRATING ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE PETER HELCK
BACK IN R&T 1981, SAM POSEY CELEBRATED ARTIST PETER HELCK: “Peter Helck was born in 1893, just in time for the invention of the automobile The first car race, the … Continue reading
F1 DRIVERS’ BRAINS—YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST (IN 2012 SORTA)
ERIC VANCE DESCRIBES “THE STRANGE BRAIN OF AN F1 DRIVER,” The New York Times, September 4, 2026: “They move too fast for the normal mind to keep up,” Vance reports, … Continue reading
THRICE-WED GWENDA, THRICE-CITED PASHA, AND MARGARET THATCHER’S SECTION 28 PART 2
YESTERDAY, AN R&T TALE FROM 1961 GOT ME RESEARCHING GWENDA JANSON STEWART HAWKES NÉE GLUBB. We continue in Part 2 today with, among other adventures, Gwenda marrying Hawkes and, years … Continue reading
A THRICE-WED GWENDA, A THRICE-CITED PASHA, AND MARGARET THATCHER’S LGBTQ ATTACK PART 1
GEEZ, IS EVERYTHING CONNECTED? Even a 1961 colloquium at Worcester Poly? So there I was, recently leafing through the 1981 R&T bound volume and encountering “First Ladies: Trend Setters of … Continue reading
