ROSSELLINI’S (AND BERGMAN’S) FERRARIS
SE NON È VERO, a ben travato. It may not be true, but it’s a good story. And so it is with tales of Ferraris belonging to Italian film director … Continue reading
THE M.G. K.3 MAGNETTE AND THE MILLE MIGLIA
WHAT WOULD 1950s’ high-school car-nuts sketch in their study-hall notebooks? Look no further than an M.G. And a highpoint of this British marque’s long history is the 1933 Mille Miglia. … Continue reading
YIPPEE CAHIER
BERNARD CAHIER, PHOTO-JOURNALIST extraordinaire, represented R&T in Europe over four decades. I recall reading of his adventures with the Formula One contingent back in the 1950s; I had the pleasure … Continue reading
A STOCK CAR, A RENAMED GERMAN AND A FAVORITE BOLIDE
TO CONTINUE MY perusing R&Ts of six decades ago, I share a few tidbits from February 1956. Among them are a test of a Ford NASCAR, a Letter to the … Continue reading
FIFTY YEARS HENCE
OLD MAGAZINES ARE fun, especially when they prophetically identify something like one’s career. With this in mind, I share a compulsion of long-heralded R&T readers who carted their old issues … Continue reading
A 1953 TIME CAPSULE—BUGATTI LORE AND MORE
ETTORE BUGATTI, Le Patron, died in 1947, the same year that Road and Track published its first issue. In November 1953, the magazine was six years old when it chose to … Continue reading
AIRBOATS—REAL AND VIRTUAL
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL did more than patent the first practical telephone in 1876 (not to say later giving actor Don Ameche such an iconic movie role that the device was … Continue reading
THE STUFF THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF
YOU’RE A KID in Cleveland reading this: “Imagine an MG-powered machine which weighs exactly one-half that of a stock TD and you have a thumbnail sketch of the Lotus.” Heady … Continue reading
AN ENTHUSIAST’S FATHER BROWN
BEING ENTHUSED about classic cars, vintage aircraft and English mystery stories, I recommend the BBC TV adventures of Father Brown. In a recent PBS presentation, this parish priest/amateur sleuth found … Continue reading
MID-ENGINE INDY RACE CARS—THE EARLY YEARS
THE DEMISE OF classic front-engine Indy roadsters began in 1961 when Jack Brabham’s mid-engine Cooper-Climax broke their ubiquity with a 9th-place finish. Jim Clark’s 1965 win in his Lotus-Ford hastened … Continue reading
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