My Car Quest

November 28, 2024

The Dream Of Designing And Building A Special Car Becomes A Reality – Part 1

Reaching deep into the My Car Quest Wayback Machine, from July 2014, I found this fascinating story about a man that really did design and build his own car. I know many car lovers have this dream but so few actually do it. The Comments are worth … [Read more...]

Farewell to Giotto Bizzarrini, Creator of Legends

The car world would have been very dull without him.* by Mike Gulett - Giotto Bizzarrini (6 June 1926 – 13 May 2023) died on May 13, 2023 at the age of 96 in Rosignano in the province of Livorno, Italy where he was in a nursing home. The … [Read more...]

Steve Wozniak Gives Elon Musk and Tesla an Earful

A Way Out for Elon... by Wallace Wyss - An editorial on a site called Futurism.com quotes another wunderkind of the Silicon Valley Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. This website quotes Wozniak arguing that "the Elon Musk-led company's … [Read more...]

Barn Finds: The Postman’s Ferrari 250 GTO

Hey, your occupation might not matter if you’re first in line with the cash... by Wallace Wyss - What if you were a postman and somebody offered you a tatty old racecar? You would think, well, that could be expensive to repair, but what the … [Read more...]

Two Completely Different Race Cars

by Mike Gulett -  In horse racing the saying goes "different horses for different courses". An analogous saying is even more true in the car racing world but I can't think of a clever, rhyming way to say it. Dragster This racecar is the … [Read more...]

Unexpected Memories of a Ferrari 250 GTO

by Mike Gulett - It is such a terrific moment when someone unexpectedly gives you a gift of a memory forgotten. I am talking about photos of Stephen Mitchell's Ferrari 250 GTO. The photos were taken and saved all of these years by Larry … [Read more...]