My Car Quest

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Archives for March 2013

1962 El Tiburon Roadster (The Shark) – A Fiberglass Classic

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The Only Lamborghini Miura Roadster At Amelia Island – Or Anywhere

by Mike - This 1968 Lamborghini Miura P 400/ZN75 Roadster is chassis number 3948 and is the only Miura Roadster made by the factory. This one of a kind Miura was introduced at the 1968 Brussels and later Geneva car shows. It is a light blue … [Read more...]

The Future Of My Car Quest

by Mike - My Car Quest is now just over two years old and there have been more than 770 posts published, thousands of photos, many videos, more than 1,000 comments and countless private emails from readers to me. I have responded to all … [Read more...]

Old Cars At The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance

by Mike - I do not write about pre-war cars very often, however, I do find some of them interesting and beautiful. Here are a few that I think are art on wheels that were shown at Amelia Island this past Sunday. These are some of the marques … [Read more...]

The Last Ferrari To Win The 24 Hours of Le Mans – The 1965 Ferrari 250 LM At Amelia Island

by Mike - While most of the attention at the 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans was focused on the factory team entries of Ferrari and Ford, it was a privately entered one-year-old 3.3-liter V12 Ferrari 250 LM which caused a major upset by winning, when … [Read more...]

The Porsche 901 Prototype Wins Its Class At Amelia Island

by Mike – The only surviving Porsche 901 prototype (chassis number 13327) won the Porsche 911 street car class at Amelia Island this past Sunday. Don Meluzio, the owner, found this car when no one knew that it existed and he brought it back to … [Read more...]