GALLIC INNOVATION AUTOWISE PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, Maurice and Georges Sizaire made their automotive mark with hyphenated -Naudin and -Berwick. Today in Part 2, they get wacky with the latter and then settle … Continue reading
GALLIC INNOVATION AUTOWISE PART 1
I STUMBLE ONTO THESE THINGS in straightforward ways: Jim Donnick is editor of Vintage Sports Car, published by the Vintage Sports Car Club of America. Each issue, he selects an … Continue reading
1957 JAGUAR XK-SS
WHAT FUN IT IS TO DRIVE an out-and-out competition car on the street! I’ve had that pleasure a few times, most memorably a week or so with the Fiat Abarth … Continue reading
THE FORD MODEL A—FOLLOWING A TOUGH ACT PART 2
FOUR YEARS OF THE MODEL A FORD couldn’t match the Model T’s 19 years. But tidbits still abound. Here in Part 2, we continue with R&T’s February 1957 discussions, together … Continue reading
THE FORD MODEL A—FOLLOWING A TOUGH ACT PART 1
THE Model T Ford was certainly a tough act to follow. Indeed, the Model A that succeeded it in 1927 wasn’t even the first Ford Model A. Ford’s 1903 car … Continue reading
AMERICAN EXUBERANCE FROM ACROSS THE POND
JULIAN BALME WRITES A CHARMING ARTICLE “Austin A90 Atlantic: One for the Album” in Classic & Sports Car, March 14, 2023, about a car built in 1950 that made an … Continue reading
VINTAGE DRIVING—RECREATED IN 1957
“CLASSIC TESTS” WERE AN R&T FEATURE for awhile, wherein editors would assemble data from contemporary sources and write a virtual road test of the classic era. The Bugatti Type 49 … Continue reading
“ON A JAG IN A HEALEY”
A STRANGE SUBHEAD for an R&T road test? Even more so: One of the road test’s stars was a 28-year-old David E. Davis, Jr., three years before his association with … Continue reading
JENKS ON “TIGERING” AND OTHER RACE-DRIVING MATTERS
LEAFING THROUGH R&T APRIL 1959 (some time-gobbling in addition to this website and GMax), I came upon “The Racing Driver,” excerpts from Denis Jenkinson’s book subtitled “The Theory and Practice … Continue reading
COMPACT COMPARO PART 2
R&T INTRODUCED ITS READERS to compact cars in November 1959. Yesterday in Part 1, its chart identified 21 of these with wheelbases between 100 and 110 in., and the magazine’s … Continue reading
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