A MAGNIFICENT YOGI’S RIDE
WHEN LAST WE encountered Pierre Arnold Bernard (yesterday here at SimanaitisSays; 1929 in his lifetime), he had just ordered a car from Belgian automaker Minerva. But not just any car, … Continue reading
A YOGI’S MAGNIFICENT RIDE
OR “A MAGNIFICENT YOGI’S Ride.” Either way, it describes the 1929 Minerva AM owned by Oom the Magnificent. This Minerva ranks as one of the largest and most lavish automobiles … Continue reading
WE’RE ALL KIDS
THOUGH WE’RE ALL kids at heart, most of us won’t fit in wonderful enthusiasts’ cars specifically fabricated for kids. Here are three, one whose drivers included le Patron’s son and … Continue reading
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
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