SETRIGHT’S THE GRAND PRIX CAR 1954/1966 PART 2
L.J.K. SETRIGHT SET HIMSELF a major challenge in continuing Laurence Pomeroy’s authoritative two-volume The Grand Prix Car. And L.J.K. did just fine, thanks, in composing knowledgable comments of a fascinating … Continue reading
SETRIGHT’S THE GRAND PRIX CAR 1954/1966 PART 1
“THE IDEA,” L.J.K. SETRIGHT WROTE, “that I should play Sussmeyer to Pomeroy’s Mozart is one that seems to have occurred, after his lamented death, more or less simultaneously to my … Continue reading
STUDEBAKER LAND CRUISER V-8—ROAD TEST A-1-51
ROAD AND TRACK’S FOURTH road test in its coded series was A-1-51, its first American car of 1951, the Studebaker Land Cruiser V-8. The magazine continued with its separately stated … Continue reading
ON THE TRAIL OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
I’M ENJOYING STEPHEN BROWNING’S On the Trail of Sherlock Holmes, a fine addition to my collection about this first and most famous of the world’s Consulting Detectives. Conan Doyle the … Continue reading
MOBY-DICK REDUX
IT ISN’T THAT I’VE been ignoring Herman Melville’s saga of Ahab and the White Whale. Despite the fact that I’ve never actually read this epic nineteenth-century novel, SimanaitisSays has discussed … Continue reading
PORSCHE 356—70 YEARS AGO
ROAD AND TRACK got several things right in its November 1952 first road test of a Porsche, but in other ways its crystal ball was fogged by adulation for Herr … Continue reading
SMALL-TOWN AUTO PRODUCTION
FORTY YEARS AGO, it seems like a perfect win-win: Locate an auto plant in a relatively isolated area, attract an eager workforce from miles around at bargain labor rates, and … Continue reading
KEEPIN’ PHOENIX KEWL
TURNING BLACKTOP GRAY is an innovative means of reducing the effects of climate change in Phoenix, the nation’s fifth largest city (news to me) and hottest (familiar from my visits, … Continue reading
A ’52 FORD—AND THOSE TESTING IT
A ROAD TEST VARIATION in Road and Track, April 1952, also provided staff automotive bios at the time. Here are tidbits on the test car, a Ford Customline, and its … Continue reading
GORE VIDAL’S VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET PART 2
MANY PLAYWRIGHTS PREFACE their dialogue with only brief descriptions of scenes and characters, the interpretation of the production left largely to the director. By contrast, Gore Vidal offered extensive details … Continue reading
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