SETRIGHT’S THE GRAND PRIX CAR 1954/1966 PART 1
“THE IDEA,” L.J.K. SETRIGHT WROTE, “that I should play Sussmeyer to Pomeroy’s Mozart is one that seems to have occurred, after his lamented death, more or less simultaneously to my … Continue reading
STUDEBAKER LAND CRUISER V-8—ROAD TEST A-1-51
ROAD AND TRACK’S FOURTH road test in its coded series was A-1-51, its first American car of 1951, the Studebaker Land Cruiser V-8. The magazine continued with its separately stated … Continue reading
PORSCHE 356—70 YEARS AGO
ROAD AND TRACK got several things right in its November 1952 first road test of a Porsche, but in other ways its crystal ball was fogged by adulation for Herr … Continue reading
A ’52 FORD—AND THOSE TESTING IT
A ROAD TEST VARIATION in Road and Track, April 1952, also provided staff automotive bios at the time. Here are tidbits on the test car, a Ford Customline, and its … Continue reading
1951 MUNTZ JET
“HERE’S THE ROAD TEST you’ve been asking for,” proclaimed Road and Track, September 1951. Well, perhaps not exactly you here in 2022 unless you were tantalized by John R. Bond’s … Continue reading
“GOIN’ FOR A RIDE” AND OTHER OBSCURE PHRASES
MOTORING WAS SOMETHING OF a cult activity. We usta go for a ride, just for fun. Like any good cult, we had a lot of cant, the linguistic term for … Continue reading
JOHN R. BOND’S SPORTS CAR
IN RECOUNTING 48,000 MILES in his 1949 Ford Custom V-8, Road and Track, March 1951, John R. Bond said the car was “a ‘sort-of’ test car during construction of a … Continue reading
BOND’S ’49 FORD AT 48,000
YOUNGER READERS: BE AWARE that this particular Bond car wasn’t 007’s. Rather, it belonged to John R. Bond, Technical Editor, when his article appeared in Road and Track, March, 1951. … Continue reading
ROAD AND TRACK’S INAUGURAL ROAD TEST
IT WAS IN MARCH 1951 that Road and Track inaugurated “a series of road tests of foreign and American automobiles from the American driver’s viewpoint.” Indeed, there had been earlier … Continue reading
RUNNIN’ IT UP THE FLAGPOLE—1950
ROAD AND TRACK WAS BARELY three years old in 1950, but it had already attracted a goody number of readers and advertisers. Here are tidbits about the latter, with the … Continue reading
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