Is it Reasonable to Expect Dramas based on Real Life Events be Based on Real Life? Opinion by Wallace Wyss - We are led to believe, or hope anyway, that films based on historical events are written on the basis of extensive research, … [Read more...]
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Did I Inspire The Replica Cobra Movement?
October 17, 2018 By 3 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - So I was going along he freeway sometime around ’70 to ’72 (memory fogs over) and I am in a Toyota and ahead of me is a 427 Cobra, red with white sidepipes. I began to chase it. We zoom in and out of traffic, my Toyota hard put … [Read more...]
Badges – We Need Badges
October 15, 2018 By 3 Comments
by Mike - Car badges are created to commemorate various car events such as rallies, races, concours d'elegance and other events. These event badges are given to participants and are not sold to the public. Some badges are meant to be … [Read more...]
Should Car Design Firms Copy Classic Designs?
October 12, 2018 By 4 Comments
The Toff's Travels - Editorial by Wallace Wyss - When Deny Behar, once of Lotus, proposed recently that his new firm, Ares Design, make a lookalike body of the fabled Ferrari 250 GTO and make it available for rebodying modern Ferraris, … [Read more...]
Ferrari Pinin From 1980
October 8, 2018 By 3 Comments
by Mike - Walking across the lawn at The Quail, A Motor Sport Gathering this past August I saw this unusual Ferrari in the distance and at first I thought it was a Ferrari 400. But after getting closer I realized it was something I had not seen … [Read more...]
All In The Family – Iso Rivolta GT
October 5, 2018 By 7 Comments
by Buddy Pepp - In addition to being a loving father and mentor, my father had a passion for automobiles. No, he was not a collector. He enjoyed owning exotic cars as his daily drivers. Growing up, my father had Ford woodies, a 1955 T-bird with a … [Read more...]
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