IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT PART 2
IT WAS 1961, AND A 1955 R&T road test of a Renault 4CV was my principal source in persuading Dad about purchasing my first car. “A very remarkable machine,” R&T … Continue reading
IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT…. PART 1
RECENTLY PERUSING A 1955 R&T road test of the Renault 4CV evoked vivid memories of my first car being a scaled-down version of Dad’s 1955 Ford Fairlane Sunliner. Why this … Continue reading
DUAL PURPOSE? NO WAY IN H____!
WHEN ERNESTO, ETTORE, AND BINDO left their namesake company in 1947, their new firm was named Officine Specializzate Costruzione Automobili—Fratelli Maserati S.p.A. OSCA, for short, lasted only until 1967, but … Continue reading
A MULTIPLE-TIME MACHINE
TIME MACHINES TYPICALLY TAKE YOU to the future or to the past, but this one has a multiple-feature: R&T’s February 1955 road test of the Morgan Plus Four describes the … Continue reading
A GLANCE ACROSS THE PACIFIC IN 1955 PART 2
YESTERDAY, THE TOPIC WAS the Japanese Automobile Industry, circa 1955. Today’s Part 2 continues with a well known marque as well as a few rather less familiar. As in Part … Continue reading
A GLANCE ACROSS THE PACIFIC IN 1955 PART 1
“AMERICANS,” TOM PROBST WROTE in Road & Track, January 1955, “are often surprised to learn that Japan has a thriving auto industry and that the narrow streets of Tokyo are … Continue reading
東京 自動車 競争
“MOTOR SPORTS ACTIVITIES are flourishing in Japan.” So reported Road and Track in “Tokyo Road Race,” its heavily illustrated one-page article appearing in September 1951. A Familiar Slogan. “All of … Continue reading
MOTORING DOWN TO BROOKLANDS—WITH SIR MALCOLM
“THE CAMPBELL TROPHY,” E.P. LEIGH-BENNETT WROTE in the late 1930s, “was to be raced for at Brooklands on the morrow, 226 miles, and Malcolm, the donor and predominating factor in … Continue reading
PUR SANG PERUSING
THE TERM PUR SANG is French for “thoroughbred,” literally “pure blooded.” Pur Sang is also the quarterly publication of the American Bugatti Club, and has been so for more than … Continue reading
SETRIGHT’S THE GRAND PRIX CAR 1954/1966 PART 2
L.J.K. SETRIGHT SET HIMSELF a major challenge in continuing Laurence Pomeroy’s authoritative two-volume The Grand Prix Car. And L.J.K. did just fine, thanks, in composing knowledgable comments of a fascinating … Continue reading
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