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Category Archives: Classic Bits

A MOGGIE CELEBRATION PART 2

WE CONTINUE YESTERDAY’S CELEBRATION OF MY FAVORITE sports car as detailed in my favorite car magazine, Classic & Sports Car. Today in Part 2, we pick up with C&SC’s Senior … Continue reading

June 23, 2024 · 1 Comment

A MOGGIE CELEBRATION   PART 1 

HURRAH FOR MY FAVORITE car magazine celebrating my favorite sports car! The June 2024 issue of Classic & Sports Car observes that “In the past five years, the Morgan Motor … Continue reading

June 22, 2024 · 3 Comments

PUR SANG TIDBITS PART 2

YESTERDAY WE ENJOYED SEVERAL TIDBITS from Pur Sang, a publication of the American Bugatti Club. Today in Part 2, we focus on fascinating applications of the differential: one in Bugatti … Continue reading

June 19, 2024 · 1 Comment

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

June 18, 2024 · 4 Comments

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

June 16, 2024 · 4 Comments

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

June 6, 2024 · 6 Comments

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

May 31, 2024 · Leave a comment

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

May 24, 2024 · Leave a comment

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

May 23, 2024 · 1 Comment

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

May 22, 2024 · 2 Comments