PUR SANG TIDBITS PART 1
MY COLLECTION OF MAGAZINES includes several of Pur Sang published by the American Bugatti Club. In fact, correspondence in its Thirty-Fifth Anniversary issue, 1960-1995, Winter 1995, prompted “Venice Grand Prix” … Continue reading
THE VENICE GRAND PRIX
NO, NOT A GONDOLA RACE. And not in Italy, but in Venice, California, March 17, 1915. What’s more, I learned about this Venice Grand Prix by leafing through the Winter … Continue reading
CONTRASTING VIEWS THIRTY YEARS AGO
“AS ENGINEERING EDITOR,” I BEGAN, “I TAUGHT KIM REYNOLDS everything I knew about road testing. And, as Road Test Editor, he’s learned even more on his own.” This and the … Continue reading
VILLA D’ESTE AS SEEN BY C&SC
THE BRITISH CLASSIC & SPORTS CAR is my preferred auto magazine. And one of its subscriber spiffs is a regular online presence. Indeed, recently C&SC visited one of my favorite … Continue reading
A BOND/MACMINN LE MANS COUPE IS HONORED AT AMELIA CONCOURS PART 3
THUS FAR, IN PARTS 1 AND 2, the Bond/MacMinn Le Mans Coupe has been theoretic. Here in Part 3, we see the car transformed into hardware, briefly tested, and then … Continue reading
A BOND/MACMINN LE MANS COUPE IS HONORED AT AMELIA CONCOURS PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, R&T’S JOHN R. BOND PROPOSED “An American Car for Le Mans” in his “Sports Car Design” series. Today in Part 2, a challenge is addressed of … Continue reading
A BOND/MACMINN LE MANS COUPE IS HONORED AT AMELIA CONCOURS PART 1
GARNERING THE CHIEF JUDGES AWARD at the 2024 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance is a car identified in Classic & Sports Car’s May 2024 issue as the “wild 1958 Macminn Le … Continue reading
JAGUAR R1 FORMULA 1 CAR—VIRTUAL TESTING PART 2
YESTERDAY WE BEGAN ANALYSIS of the Jaguar R1 Formula 1 race car, as described in R&T’s March 2001 telemetry-based virtual track test. Today in Part 2 we continue with bits … Continue reading
JAGUAR R1 FORMULA 1 CAR—VIRTUAL TESTING PART 1
BY THE MILLENNIUM, TELEMETRY had become firmly embedded into Formula 1. And in the year 2000, F1 had its inaugural United Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (not to be … Continue reading
R&T SORTA CARPS ABOUT THE MUSCLE CAR ERA PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, R&T WAXED ELOQUENT about muscle cars countering a U.S. automaker racing ban and swiping car names from good, honest foreigners. Today it continues in its road … Continue reading
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