FORMULA ONE—A HALF-CENTURY AGO
IT SURE SOUNDS FAMILIAR: Jonathan Thompson wrote about a driver performing “perfectly all year long… staying up front so consistently that his challengers were demoralized.” Jon was reviewing the 1972 … Continue reading
MORE THAN A LARK IN A LOEWY CAGE?
“STUDEBAKER’S AVANTI,” R&T WROTE IN OCTOBER 1962, “has been before the public for only a short time, yet it has created a remarkable stir of interest. Not since the New … Continue reading
BOBSY LORE
I WAS RESEARCHING SOMETHING OR OTHER and the word “Bobsy” popped up. The word “popped” made sense in the context, because the Bobsy that I had in mind happened to … Continue reading
INSPIRED BY AUTOMOTIVE ART
AS NOTED HERE fairly frequently, one of my primary time-gobblers (and whimwham antidotes) is GMax modeling. Associated as it is with Microsoft Flight Simulator, most of my renderings have been … Continue reading
LOTUS CORTINA (VERSUS FIRST FORD MUSTANG)—1964 PART 2
YESTERDAY’S RECOUNTING OF R&T’S July 1964 Lotus Cortina road test cited that only a month later the magazine tested the first Ford Mustang. Which car to generate an enthusiast’s lust? … Continue reading
LOTUS CORTINA (VERSUS FIRST FORD MUSTANG)—1964 PART 1
WHAT AN INTERESTING QUANDARY for an auto enthusiast in the summer of 1964: Buy one of the just-introduced Ford Mustangs tested in R&T August 1964? Or, having read R&T July … Continue reading
COME SI DICE SPRITE IN ITALIANO?
THE QUESTION ABOVE (“HOW TO SAY SPRITE IN ITALIAN?”) has a perfect response in “Innocenti,” pronounced “I-no-CHEN-ty.” R&T concurred in May 1964: “A newcomer among the sports car currently offered … Continue reading
MY FAIR 日本 LADY GETS A RELATIVE MEH FROM THE R&T TESTERS (PLUS A DATED COMMENTARY)
THE DATSUN SPL-310 WAS KNOWN as the Fairlady in right-hand-drive markets, the name linked to My Fair Lady, the fabulously successful Broadway show at the time. Indeed, Wikipedia notes, “To … Continue reading
DATSUN 1000—“WHOLESOME RICE CAKES, NOT EXOTIC SINGING AND DANCING”
I DON’T KNOW THAT JAPAN HAS EVER been known for “exotic” singing and dancing, but someone at R&T in 1958 thought up this contrast. Not that any Japanese imports of … Continue reading
JAGUAR TRIPPIN’—VIRTUALLY
THE JAGUAR HERITAGE TRUST is in Gaydon, south of Coventry in the English Midlands. It’s a vast continent and vast ocean from my home, but I’ve just tripped there—virtually. All … Continue reading
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