IN ANY INDIRECT GEAR… THE TAPLEY METER WAS “OFF-SCALE”
IMAGINE THE EXCITEMENT experienced by R&T’s John R. Bond when he sat next to Lance Reventlow piloting the Scarab Mark II around Riverside Raceway. Indeed, my most memorable testing as … Continue reading
THE BUGATTI TYPE 49
ROAD TESTS FROM R&T appearing here at SimanaitisSays these days are all, in a sense, magazine classics. But for awhile there, the magazine also published what it termed Classic Tests: … Continue reading
’59 VETTE—ONLY “PRETTY GOOD”??
I CAN UNDERSTAND MIXED VIEWS of the original Chevrolet Corvette (R&T, June 1954: “When first driving the car there is a tendency to keep reaching for the gear shift lever … Continue reading
LINCOLN CONTINENTALS—APPARENTLY SIZE MATTERED
DOMESTIC AUTOMOBILES OF THE 1950s grew and grew… and grew. The Lincoln Continental is an interesting example, especially because it had appeared in R&T, indeed even once as a cover … Continue reading
VINTAGE CAR ART
INTRODUCING VINTAGE CAR ART in R&T August 1958, the magazine observed, “To the dyed-in-the-wool enthusiast for the marque Aston Martin, no other make is even worthy of a second glance. … Continue reading
THERE WERE SPRITES IN OUR GARAGES PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, tidbits were gleaned from R&T’s road test of the all-new 1958 Austin-Healey Sprite. Today in Part 2 comments are shared by a pal who managed to … Continue reading
THERE WERE SPRITES IN OUR GARAGES PART 1
LIKE THE COTTINGLEY FAIRIES that resided in Holmes literary agent Arthur Conan Doyle’s garden, for awhile Sprites resided in our driveways and garages. In fact, I know of one that … Continue reading
NOT JUST THE LINING, BUT THE ENTIRE CLOUD
THE ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER CLOUD was “a lady of quality, unruffled in a crisis,” or so described R&T, May 1958. No specific crisis was cited; could it have been exposure to … Continue reading
SAME OL’ SAME OL’?—JUST A COUPLE R&T ROAD TESTS PART 2
A REMARKABLE CONTRAST in R&T road tests prompted these tidbits yesterday and today. In February 1958, the tiny BMW Isetta 300 broke the Berkeley Sport’s smallest engine tested record by … Continue reading
SAME OL’ SAME OL’?—JUST A COUPLE R&T ROAD TESTS PART 1
IT WAS TOO EARLY (1958) to wonder what the R&T staff was smoking, but imagine hallucinatory oddities of February and April road tests that year: the Isetta 300 and Chrysler … Continue reading
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