by Mike Gulett - Recently I watched the Clint Eastwood movie The Eiger Sanction and noticed, again, the lime gold Bizzarrini GT 5300 in the background, placed there by the owner, stunt driver Carey Loftin. A friend of mine (a long … [Read more...]
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The Best of France and Italy Show November 3, 2024
November 10, 2024 By 6 Comments
Text and photos by Wallace Wyss - This show, taking place the first Sunday of November in Woodley Park in Van Nuys, California, is almost an anti-concours. Oh to be sure, many of the cars, heredity wise, were worth showing--rarities … [Read more...]
The Iso Grifo Spider Has Sold for Big Bucks
November 5, 2024 By 7 Comments
By Mike Gulett - The Iso Grifo Spider sold recently at a RM Sotheby’s auction at the junkyard in Southern California where it had been stored for a few decades. It achieved a price of $1,875,000, a record for an Iso Grifo GL, more than the … [Read more...]
My Morgan Adventure – A Lost And Found Race Car
October 24, 2024 By 7 Comments
I think all car enthusiasts have a dream of finding a special car that no one else knows about. The usual dream is the "barn find". Here we have the story of a lost and found Morgan factory built race car that was lost for many years and found … [Read more...]
The Actress And The Wraith: 1956 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith
October 11, 2024 By 11 Comments
First published here in June 2018 and still a very good read... by Wallace Wyss - Now there’s celebrity cars, and some people like owning them because at a concours you can drop a line like “Oh, this was the Queen’s…” or “General so-and-so … [Read more...]
Editorial: California a State that is Kind to Cars
October 8, 2024 By 4 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - As much as I, a California resident for half a century and more, think about moving to another State with cheaper housing and lower priced gasoline (paying over $4 a gallon now), one thing that keeps me here is the fact that … [Read more...]
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