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
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
