My Car Quest

September 30, 2024

Sports Cars and Classic Cars Blog

Book Review: Fins – Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors and the Glory Days of Detroit

Review by Wallace Wyss - Author: William Knoedelseder Publisher: Harper Business Format: Hardcover Pages: 320 ISBN 13: 9780062289070 Price: $29.99 Available for less on Amazon - Click Here America’s car industry … [Read more...]

Porsche’s Italian Adventure – The Porsche 356 Abarth Carrera GT/L

by Wallace Wyss - The Porsche family were Austrians. They were doing pretty well developing race cars in the early ‘50s, especially the mid-engined Porsche 550 Spyder, but it bothered them that a fellow Austrian, Carlo Abarth, working in Italy, … [Read more...]

Jack Thompson ’27 Ford Model T Roadster Sold (Shirt Not Included)

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

by Mike - Industrial designer Henry Covington of St. Petersburg, Florida set out in the early 1960s to build a car based on the aerodynamic principles of Dr. Augustus Raspet, a noted aerodynamics expert. The result was the 1962 El Tiburon … [Read more...]

Porsche 356 Zagato Carrera Speedster

by Mike - There is a rare Porsche for sale on Bring a Trailer, where they write, "This is the sixth of nine Carrera Speedsters built by Zagato in 2015 and 2016 using Porsche 356 donor cars." Wallace Wyss wrote here on My Car Quest about … [Read more...]

Design Analysis: 2020 Toyota Supra

Toyota will do the coupe while BMW does the roadster. by Wallace Wyss - It’s a little risky talking about a car that is so far off but pictures of the new Supra are leaking out. The big news is that this is a car made in combination with … [Read more...]