by Mike Gulett - In the ten year run of the Lamborghini Espada and three different series producing a total of 1,217 cars there were relatively few design styling changes, which is surprising considering how other car companies change car styles … [Read more...]
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Ferrari Makes a Modern GTO
October 7, 2020 By 2 Comments
The Ferrari Omologato is Ferrari's tenth one-off V12. by Wallace Wyss - Ferrari is in business to make money. A rich guy calls you up and says he wants a special one off car, you damn well better build it. But this tifosi wanted a 250GTO … [Read more...]
Design Critique: De Tomaso Mangusta
October 6, 2020 By 16 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - I remember the first time I saw one, in roughly 1968-'69, before the Pantera was announced, in Michigan outside a car museum, in Hickory Corners. The owner was crawling underneath it to adjust the transmission with Allen … [Read more...]
Concepts That Didn’t Make It: Cadillac Sixteen
October 5, 2020 By 2 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - I've been covering the auto industry for, oh, 55 years or so and missed the grand era of the '30s. I saw a picture of the 2003 Cadillac Sixteen concept car recently and realized how much I miss outsize characters like Bob Lutz, … [Read more...]
Where The Cars are the Stars
October 3, 2020 By 3 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Can you imagine Magnum PI being filmed without a red Ferrari? Even though, as MOTORT1 website pointed out recently, it was rather illogical that a p.i. should drive so noticeable a car, in Miami Vice they started out with a … [Read more...]
Fourth Annual Saratoga Motorcar Auction Achieves $3.7 million in Sales
October 1, 2020 By 1 Comment
This auction achieves 70 percent sell-through rate in its fourth year; bolsters Saratoga Automobile Museum and its education initiatives. The Saratoga Automobile Museum has announced that the Saratoga Motorcar Auction, sold $3.7 million in … [Read more...]
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