by Wallace Wyss - I will always miss Andy Cohen. He was an entrepreneur of the purist order, based in Malibu. He collected cars, all the way from his Ford woody wagon, a prewar car with a more modern postwar engine, to a 427 Cobra, a … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2019
Iso Rivolta Fidia For Sale
October 22, 2019 By 2 Comments
1971 Iso Rivolta Fidia “The World’s Four Fastest Seats” was the Iso Rivolta Fidia marketing slogan. The styling is by the master designer Giorgetto Giugiaro when he was with Ghia. This Iso Rivolta Fidia For Sale * Black paintwork with … [Read more...]
Remembering The Shelby Daytona Coupe
October 19, 2019 By 6 Comments
The Shelby Daytona Coupe beat the Ferraris and who’da thunk it was designed by a T-shirt artist? by Wallace Wyss - If anything, the short lived success of the Shelby Cobra Daytona coupe demonstrates the advantages of steadfastness. And the … [Read more...]
Think Big – Thought Ettore Bugatti
October 16, 2019 By 2 Comments
So he did - but his timing was off… by Wallace Wyss - In retrospect, I gotta hand it to ol’ Ettore Bugatti, the car builder, because not only did he build cars that ended up winning 1000 races, but for awhile he built the world’s most … [Read more...]
The British Edition of GQ Magazine Has a Cover Story Next Month With Interview of the Stars of Ford v Ferrari (aka Le Mans ’66)
October 15, 2019 By 1 Comment
by Wallace Wyss - It’s in the November issue. GQ's writer, Stuart McGurk, starts out telling the reader that this movie “tells the true tale of the grudge match between Ford and Ferrari in the Sixties and how the battleground became the 1966 Le … [Read more...]
How the Book, “SHELBY: The Man, The Cars The Legend” Came to Be….
October 12, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Many car books come on the market each year. This is the story of how an author became obsessed with one race driver and the cars he created and who covered the same subject in two different books written 30 years apart… … [Read more...]
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