MERCEDES-BENZ W196 EX-FANGIO
A FABULOUS car, the 1954 Ex-Juan Manuel Fangio Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand Prix machine, recently changed hands for a fabulous price—$29.7 million. This Bonhams sale, at Goodwood Festival of Speed on … Continue reading
TOUR DE FRANCE AUTO
BRUCE MALE, car collector extraordinaire, vintage race driver and fellow Arizona Copperstate participant (www.wp.me/p2ETap-VS), offered me the codriver role in his Maserati A6G Zagato for the Tour de France Auto, … Continue reading
CARS OF THE RAJ
OVERLOOKING FOR the moment the plight of a lesser populace, being a maharajah must have been grand—especially if one were a car enthusiast. Over the years, I’ve collected lore on … Continue reading
FORD MODEL T LORE
JOHN STEINBECK said it best in his book, Cannery Row. “Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the … Continue reading
WEEKENDS IN MONTEREY
AT ONE time or another, the most interesting cars in the world show up on the Monterey Peninsula. Given that the 2013 Monterey Weekend is taking place at the moment … Continue reading
MG C-TYPE, 1931
THE MOTORING moniker “C-Type” usually conjures an image of a 1950’s Jaguar competition car, successful in endurance racing. But two decades before this, other C-Types—these, MGs—made a name for themselves … Continue reading
AN ALVIS SPEED 20 SB? A TALBOT LAGO T26?
“IF I were a rich man…,” mused Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. Though my circumstances are decidedly different, my musings are the same as I look through the catalogs … Continue reading
TWIN-ENGINE CARS
HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS know that if one elephant is good, then more than one is even better. Over the history of the automobile, designers have occasionally shared this view. Many Land … Continue reading
SUZUKA’S GRASSY HILLOCK, 1989
MARGIT MOTTA and I witnessed one of the most dramatic—and controversial—moments of Formula 1 racing at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix. The drama was a high point of the intense … Continue reading
NAPIER-RAILTON, PART 2
JOHN COBB and his 1933 Napier-Railton (www.wp.me/p2ETap-1lR) were certainly the pair for setting record after record on Brooklands’ 2 1/4-mile circuit in England. Between 1933 and 1937, Cobb’s Napier-Railton set world … Continue reading
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