TIDBITS FROM SETRIGHT’S TIMESCALE PART 1
AUTOMOTIVE JOURNALISTS WRITE ABOUT AUTOMOBLES. But some, like L.J.K. Setright, widened their field of vision considerably. His classic Drive On! is accurately subtitled A Social History of the Motor Car. … Continue reading
EVALUATING THE DE TOMASO PANTERA AND THE U.P. PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, R&T SHARED its evaluation of the 1973 De Tomaso Pantera, a Ford-engine exotic available at less than stratospheric price. Today, two women familiar to R&T readers, … Continue reading
EVALUATING THE DE TOMASO PANTERA—AND THE U.P. PART 1
CRAMMING AN AMERICAN V-8 into a mid-engine Italian exotic may not be without its shortcomings, but many of these can be remedied—or overlooked. Indeed, two young ladies from California had … Continue reading
DRIVEN TO CRIME PART 2
YESTERDAY WE GLEANED TIDBITS from Crispian Besley’s Driven to Crime: True Stories of Wrongdoing in Motor Racing. Today in Part 2, we find that clever deceits have a way of … Continue reading
DRIVEN TO CRIME PART 1
MOTORSPORTS HAS HAD ITS SHARE of rascals and skullduggery. See, for example, “Smuggling and Motorsports”, “Tripoli Tangles, 1933”, and “Politics and Motorsports” here at SimanaitisSays. For an entertaining collection of … Continue reading
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
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