JAGUAR R1 FORMULA 1 CAR—VIRTUAL TESTING PART 2
YESTERDAY WE BEGAN ANALYSIS of the Jaguar R1 Formula 1 race car, as described in R&T’s March 2001 telemetry-based virtual track test. Today in Part 2 we continue with bits … Continue reading
JAGUAR R1 FORMULA 1 CAR—VIRTUAL TESTING PART 1
BY THE MILLENNIUM, TELEMETRY had become firmly embedded into Formula 1. And in the year 2000, F1 had its inaugural United Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (not to be … Continue reading
R&T SORTA CARPS ABOUT THE MUSCLE CAR ERA PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, R&T WAXED ELOQUENT about muscle cars countering a U.S. automaker racing ban and swiping car names from good, honest foreigners. Today it continues in its road … Continue reading
R&T SORTA CARPS ABOUT THE MUSCLE CAR ERA PART 1
R&T GOT ALL NUTSY in 1964 about the Pontiac GTO’s name, but they were also recognizing the category of “muscle car.” Wikipedia cites Merriam-Webster defining the category as “a group … Continue reading
QUITE AN EVENTFUL YEAR—1994
“WHAT WITH FIRESTORMS, EARTHQUAKES, MUD SLIDES and, as I begin this report, torrential rains, flooding, even a tornado, Southern California had hardly been a boring place of late.” So wrote … Continue reading
PEDALIN’ IT ALL OVER TOWN
R&T CALLED IT “the lightest, most compact and most economical Maserati we have ever tested.” This and the following images from R&T, April 1974. It was fifty years ago, and … Continue reading
“NOSTALGIA STRAIGHT-UP”—THE MORGAN +8 TURBO
IN R&T’S 1978 “10 BEST CARS FOR A CHANGING WORLD,” the Morgan +8 Turbo garnered the coveted Henry N. Manney III Intransigence Can Be a Virtue Award. The magazine noted, … Continue reading
FIAT X1/9: EXPERIENCING AN R&T TIME MACHINE PART 2
THIS ALL STARTED IN PART 1 celebrating a bargain mid-engine sports car, the Fiat X1/9. Here in Part 2, we pick up with 1980. Fuel Injection, 1980. Replacement of Weber carburetion … Continue reading
FIAT X1/9—EXPERIENCING AN R&T TIME MACHINE PART 1
FIFTY YEARS AGO, R&T SAID THE FIAT’S X1/9 “is the first good-looking open mid-engine roadster available to buyers of modest means. In nearly every way imaginable—handling, ride, looks, comfort, luggage … Continue reading
DRIVE TO SURVIVE? UH, NO, IT WAS JUST FOR FUN
WIFE DOTTIE’S NIECE LINDA RECENTLY came upon strips of b/w negatives shot by Dottie when I drove a Formula Ford at what I believe was the last competitive event at … Continue reading
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