L’EBÉ’S VIEWS PART 2
ETTORE BUGATTI’S LIFE and cars have been oft documented, but seldom in as charming a fashion as in his daughter L’Ebé’s account in The Bugatti Story. Here in Part 2 … Continue reading
L’EBÉ’S VIEWS PART 1
DAUGHTERS ARE GOOD as biographers, especially if you’re the biographee. (Suz and Beth, take note.) Assuming they leave the hagiography to others, daughters certainly have first-hand knowledge of their subject’s … Continue reading
DECODING THE HIGHWAY CODE (FROM THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD)
FOR US ’MERICANS, AFTER ALL, it is the wrong side of the road. In any event, the British book You Have Been Warned treats its Highway Code with an anatomically … Continue reading
THE TALE OF GENEVIEVE
YOU KNOW IT’S GOING TO BE a charming movie with this opening credit: “For their patient co-operation the makers of this film express their thanks to the officers and members … Continue reading
L’IDEA FERRARI—FLORENCE
WHAT BETTER ART VENUE than Florence. And what a fine topic in “The Idea Ferrari.” This exhibition, June 8-September 30, 1990, was set with the help of Ferrari North America … Continue reading
TWO-WHEELED STYLE—1902 to 1960
I AM FASCINATED by the two-wheelers displayed by Sotheby’s in its Motorcycles and Bicycles Auction on September 16, 2000, in Chicago. Here are tidbits on several of my favorites. Dursley … Continue reading
ROAD AND TRACK VOL. 1 NO.6 PART 2
VOL. 1 NO. 6 OF Road and Track first appeared in December 1949 and later in a Brooklands Books facsimile in 1987. Yesterday in Part 1, we learned about motor … Continue reading
ROAD AND TRACK VOL. 1 NO. 6 PART 1
I STILL HAVEN’T UNEARTHED my oldest rattle-taggle issues, but did uncover facsimiles of the magazine re-issued by Brooklands Books in celebrating its 40th anniversary in 1987. These are December 1949 … Continue reading
A MAN, HIS THINGS MECHANICAL—AND HIS SISTER VERA
GEORGE EDWARD MILLIGEN was born in 1910; he died in 2004, shortly after which his collection of things mechanical was auctioned by Bonhams at the Goodwood Revival Sale 2004. Here … Continue reading
JOHN W. BURGESS—MUSEUM CURATOR/ARTIST/DIRT TRACK RACER
JOHN BURGESS KNEW AUTOMOBILES extremely well and also admired the American West. I have proof positive of this through his artwork and through knowing him as director/curator of Briggs Cunningham’s … Continue reading
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