My Car Quest

April 19, 2024

The Best of France and Italy – November 2023

A short report... by Wallace Wyss and Curtis Bien - Barefoot In the Park - well, not really barefoot but it is in a park. Instead there were bare naked Italian and French cars. A bookshop in the San Fernando Valley, Autobooks, sells … [Read more...]

The Iso Grifo – Transcending Cool

From the My Car Quest Wayback Machine all the way back to October 2015 and one of my favorite subjects - the very cool Iso Grifo. Mike Gulett, Editor by Mike Gulett - More and more car connoisseurs have recognized the Iso Grifo as a … [Read more...]

Artistic Considerations Facing a Photographer Attempting to Capture the Zeitgeist of a Route 66 Theme Car Show…

by Wallace Wyss - I go to car shows for different reasons. Sometimes it's to shoot a rare car you hardly ever see because of its value--such as at the Casa Ferrari show in Pebble Beach where I hoped the 250GTO I saw was real (last I looked … [Read more...]

Lime Rock Concours – September 2023

by Bob Wachtel - On Sunday September 3 I attended the Lime Rock Concours event that I registered for over a month ago and was accepted to enter. I drove my silver 1999 Dodge Viper GTS coupe there, which is only about 30-40 minute away from my … [Read more...]

Concorso Italiano 2023

by Wallace Wyss - Concorso Italiano was another well planned show though had more of a cars-'n-coffee feel than say The Quail ($1000+ ticket) or Pebble beach (roughly $500 a ticket). The goal was to fill a couple of well manicured greens of the … [Read more...]

Casa Ferrari: A Free Ferrari Show

by Wallace Wyss - Ferrari is the most profitable automaker and some of that is no doubt due to astute marketing, knowing what events to tie in with. In North America they have zoomed in on the Pebble Beach Concours, an event that goes back … [Read more...]