GEOFF’S MILLE MIGLIA PART 2
YESTERDAY IN OUR (AND HIS) TALE, Geoff Healey started the 1949 Mille Miglia in a year-old Healey 2400 Westland (that had placed first in class there the year before). Today, … Continue reading
GEOFF’S MILLE MIGLIA PART 1
TALK ABOUT FIRST-HAND COVERAGE! The R&T author wrote in January 1950, “Six weeks before the race my father, Donald Healey, decided that two Healey cars should run in the Mille … Continue reading
THE AUSTIN A90, SPEED, AND OLD R&TS
WHAT WITH SIMANAITISSAYS EVOLVING from 33+ years at R&T, it’s no surprise that automobiles are occasional topics at this website. Here at the beginning of 2024 let’s return to R&T’s … Continue reading
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
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