OLDS CUTLASS SALON—EQUAL TO EURO LUXURY SPORT SEDANS AT A BARGAIN PRICE?
FIFTY YEARS AGO, IMPORTS WERE FIRMLY ESTABLISHED in the U.S. market. Not just sports cars and VW Beetles, but even at the luxury end of the market. In February 1973, … Continue reading
DETROIT RACES 1901
WHEN THE SECOND MOTOR CAR was built, its driver likely challenged the first. Thus came motor sports. According to Motoring in America: The Early Years, so it was in Detroit … Continue reading
L.J.K. SETRIGHT’S TIMESCALE PART 2
WE’RE CELEBRATING THE WIDE TALENTS of L.J.K. Setright, as exemplified in his Timescale, a multifaceted timeline in his Drive On! A Social History of the Motor Car. Leonard John Kensell … Continue reading
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
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