VSCCA LE MANS ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
VINTAGE SPORTS CAR, THE MEMBER PUBLICATION of the Vintage Sports Car Club of America, celebrates Le Mans in its Number 2 2023 issue and also with its 2024 calendar. Editor … Continue reading
ALLARD PALM BEACH—GRENDEL’S KID SISTER
IT WAS LIKE BEOWULF’S GRENDEL having a sweet kid sister. (The Allard J2X has already appeared here at SimanaitisSays.) Above, the Allard J2X, 1951–1954. Image by cutaway artist extraordinaire Yoshihiro … Continue reading
BOXIES I HAVE KNOWN
WHETHER RANCH WAGONS, MPVS, ESTATES, SHOOTING BRAKES or whatever, I’ve been on good terms with boxy automotive shapes. Classic & Sports Cars Online jogged my memory about this with “20 … Continue reading
NSU SPIDER—A MATTER OF WANKEL SHELF LIFE
IN 1965, R&T’S RON WAKEFIELD (hi, Ron!) wrote, “Eleven years ago Felix Wankel devised his first rotary-combustion engine, which incorporated the normal gasoline engine (Otto) cycle in an epitrochoidal combustion … Continue reading
MANNEY DRIVES A LAMBO
INDEED, UNLESS TRACTORS ARE COUNTED, Henry N. Manney III’s drive was of a first Lamborghini, the 350 GT. As Henry wrote in the car’s July 1965 R&T road test, “Engineers … Continue reading
THE ZBROJOVKA/JAWA SIBLINGS
A GERMAN MODEL MAKER introduced me to two Czech siblings, the introduction brought about by my favorite British car magazine. Here are tidbits gleaned from several sources. The Introduction. Classic … Continue reading
THE ORIGINAL 911
IN MARCH 1965, R&T was thinking “timeless” when it wrote, “If we exclude the special racing models, the new Porsche 911, née 901, is the first entirely new Porsche in … Continue reading
MAURO CALDI, PILOTA STRAORDINARIO
THE OCTOBER 2023 ISSUE OF Classic & Sports Cars introduced me to the motoring comics of Denis Lapière (writer), Michel Constant (illustrator) and wife Béa who colors Michel’s illos. Amazon … Continue reading
R&T’S MOGGIE TRIKE TEST, MOTTA’S ILLO, AND MY BRIEF DRIVES
HERE’S A TRIO OF MORGAN TRIKE TIDBITS gleaned from several sources: R&T March 1957, R&T December 1965, SimanaitisSays May 4, 2013, and my own memory bank. A Classic Trike. Back … Continue reading
Simanaitis Says 
A PRE-COMPACT FORD
COMPACT DOMESTICS WERE STILL TWO YEARS AWAY in 1957 when R&T noted “What Dearborn doesn’t have, Dagenham does.” The car tested was the English Ford Consul II, a downsized rendering … Continue reading →