HONDA S-600: TIDY, LIVELY, ENDEARING
IT WAS 1965 and an American serviceman returned from two years in Japan with Honda’s latest sports car, the S-600. What’s more, he offered his car to R&T for a … Continue reading
AUTO UNION TYPE C
THERE WAS A TIME when Grand Prix cars had front engines. Ah, but the exception was exceptional indeed: the Auto Union. What’s more, these cars were documented by two giants … Continue reading
MOMA’S FIRST CELEBRATION OF THE AUTOMOBILE PART 2
IN 1951, NEW YORK CITY’s Museum of Modern Art celebrated automotive esthetics with its 8 Automobiles exhibit. Yesterday in Part 1, we shared MOMA views on its first four examples. … Continue reading
MOMA’S FIRST CELEBRATION OF THE AUTOMOBILE PART 1
“I GO SOMEWHERE… I take a cab.” This apocryphal New Yorker’s view of travel was countered by that city’s Museum of Modern Art and its first exhibit on automotive design. … Continue reading
AN ALL-WHEEL-DRIVE BUGATTI!
A BUGATTI WITH all-wheel drive? Am I talking about the latter-day Veyron? No. Do I mean the EB110 that I drove back in 1994? No. I mean a real Bugatti … Continue reading
WOMEN AT THE WHEEL
I RECENTLY READ a debunking of the “just a woman driver” myth. It was in “What a Woman Can Do With an Auto” by Robert Sloss who made “the surprising … Continue reading
RAIL, ROAD, AND AIR—THE ART OF TERENCE CUNEO
ENGLISH PAINTER Terence Cuneo had a way with locomotives, cars, and even aircraft. Quite apart from this, he was also the official artist for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II … Continue reading
2020 (MID-ENGINE!) CORVETTE PART 1
IF I HAD a nickel for each time R&T predicted a mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette…. gee, I could retire. Come to think of it, I got retired in 2012. And here … Continue reading
STILL LUSCIOUS AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
“ONLY SIX years old,” R&T said in June 1969, “but indisputably a classic.” And for the Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso, all the more indisputable 50 years later. “The prototype … Continue reading
Legends of Speed AT PHXART
THE PHOENIX ART MUSEUM is highly regarded by motor sports enthusiasts. There’s the Copperstate 1000 vintage car rally, run annually since 1991. Wife Dottie and I took part in this … Continue reading
