My Car Quest

May 2, 2024

Archives for April 2018

The La Jolla Concours d’Elegance – 2018

by Wallace Wyss - Photos by Richard Bartholomew - Every old car fan dreams of going to the Pebble Beach Concours but that’s over $300 a ticket now. A far less costly approximation can be found at the La Jolla Concours held each April … [Read more...]

My Car Adventure – The Citroen DS 21 And The Hood

by Bob Wachtel - Many years ago, between my first and current marriage, I was living the bachelor life in a bungalow in the Seagate section of Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y. At that time I owned a wonderful white Citroen DS 21. I loved … [Read more...]

Rolls Royce Needs A Different Two Seater

CAR magazine had a good idea, Rolls has done it five years later, though not to our correspondent’s satisfaction… by Wallace Wyss - Five years ago, the very alert staff at CAR magazine in England published a drawing of a two seater … [Read more...]

Ford’s Stroke of Genius: 1962 Thunderbird Sports Roadster

by Wallace Wyss - I remember being mildly interested in the Ford Thunderbird around ’61 but the trouble was that it was a four seater and I thought: “Why can’t Ford have a two seater like the Corvette?” Which they did from ’55 to ’57 in the … [Read more...]

Lord Lucan’s Escape Rolls Royce Found…

by Wallace Wyss - Image by Richard Bartholomew – A spectacular Roll Royce has come out of storage, confiscated by the storage renters for non-payment of storage fees. The postwar Rolls was believed to be the last vehicle in which a murderer … [Read more...]