THE ORIGINAL 911
IN MARCH 1965, R&T was thinking “timeless” when it wrote, “If we exclude the special racing models, the new Porsche 911, née 901, is the first entirely new Porsche in … Continue reading
MAURO CALDI, PILOTA STRAORDINARIO
THE OCTOBER 2023 ISSUE OF Classic & Sports Cars introduced me to the motoring comics of Denis Lapière (writer), Michel Constant (illustrator) and wife Béa who colors Michel’s illos. Amazon … Continue reading
MORE A.I. BS
QUITE INDEPENDENT OF RECENT BUSINESS MACHINATIONS in the A.I. industry, there still remains the inherent problem of addressing hallucinations. SimanaitisSays discussed this in “On Chatbots and Other Hallucinators.” And in … Continue reading
R&T’S MOGGIE TRIKE TEST, MOTTA’S ILLO, AND MY BRIEF DRIVES
HERE’S A TRIO OF MORGAN TRIKE TIDBITS gleaned from several sources: R&T March 1957, R&T December 1965, SimanaitisSays May 4, 2013, and my own memory bank. A Classic Trike. Back … Continue reading
TURING’S BOMBE; HOLMES MEETS HARRY NILE
TALK ABOUT SERENDIPITY: November 30 marks publication of Alan Turing’s 1936 paper “On Computable Numbers, with Application to the Entscheidungsproblem.” The November 2023 issue of BBC HISTORY recounts this idea … Continue reading
EARLY AIR MAIL SNAFUS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE CAUGHT UP WITH the latest valuation of a rare “Inverted Jenny” air mail stamp. We also began the tale of Lieutenant George Boyle helping to inaugurate air mail … Continue reading
EARLY AIR MAIL SNAFUS PART 1
IT’S INTERESTING ENOUGH that a philatelic screwup complicated early U.S. air mail, so too did prenup nepotism. Here in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow are tidbits especially focusing … Continue reading
SCRIPTS REDUX PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE LEARNED OF A RECYCLED SCRIPT going from play to movie to Broadway musical to movie of the musical. Today, the recycling continues, even to including an original author … Continue reading
SCRIPTS REDUX PART 1
SOME TALES ARE SO GOOD that they’re worth repeating. Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story. La Bohème and Rent. The Wizard of Oz and The Wiz. Here, though, I’m … Continue reading
Simanaitis Says 
A PRE-COMPACT FORD
COMPACT DOMESTICS WERE STILL TWO YEARS AWAY in 1957 when R&T noted “What Dearborn doesn’t have, Dagenham does.” The car tested was the English Ford Consul II, a downsized rendering … Continue reading →