BUGATTIS AT INDY
LINK THESE: BUGATTI, the Indy 500, a Prince, a Count, Ian Fleming and Muroc Dry Lake. This linkage is all the more astounding because it is exmplified in a single … Continue reading
ETTORE BUGATTI–PILOTE DE COURSE
ETTORE BUGATTI IS celebrated as a designer of automobiles, an artist who happened to run a factory as well. However, le Patron was also, early in his career, a race … Continue reading
THE R&T WEAR INDEX
MAYBE A YEAR ago, auto journalist pal John Dinkel asked if I knew how to calculate the old R&T Wear Index. Much to my chagrin (for it was John who … Continue reading
MINI THOUGHTS
AN AD in the January 1961 R&T got me thinking about the impact of the original Morris 850 in automotive history. This car evolved indirectly from the 1956 Suez Canal … Continue reading
CURTA CURTAIN CALL
THE CURTA CALCULATOR looks like a pepper grinder with numerals peering out. There’s a crank on the top that whirs with reassuring precision. And anyone serious about Time-Speed-Distance rallying in … Continue reading
A DIVINE DUSIE
THIS PARTICULAR DUESENBERG is more than divine; in a sense, the car was Divine’s. Namely, it was specially built as a Throne Car for the complexly charismatic African-American evangelist Father … Continue reading
ART OF BUGATTI–THE PETERSEN MUSEUM
JUST OPENED AT the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is The Art of Bugatti, in a sense a recreation of an earlier exhibit at the Mullin Automotive Museum described … Continue reading
THE D-TYPE JAGUAR (AND A GP’S T’BIRD)
THERE IS no mistaking the principal appeal of R&T, May 1956: A first road test of the Jaguar D-Type, a sports racing car already on its way to legendary status. … Continue reading
CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIR–1933
HAVING MENTIONED MY Cleveland heritage yesterday, Cubs’ fans may rightfully clamor for equal time. (Indeed, Daughter Beth and her family live in Chicago.) With them in mind, today let’s celebrate … Continue reading
BUGATTI VISES AND VICES
ETTORE BUGATTI WAS an artisan as well as engineer as well as automaker. It’s part of Bugatti lore that each prospective workman at the Molshiem factory was confronted with a … Continue reading
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