by Mike Gulett - My friend and car lover, Bud Millard, died about two years ago. I spent time with him at nearly every car event in the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey for many years. This article about his De Tomaso Mangusta was … [Read more...]
Iso Rivolta A3/C – The Sanction II Continuation
February 29, 2024 By 5 Comments
by Mike Gulett - A very rare Iso Rivolta A3/C Sanction II Continuation is now up for auction on Bring a Trailer. This is a high quality recreation of the Iso Rivolta A3/C or Bizzarrini GT 5300. It is made on a real Iso Rivolta GT chassis, this … [Read more...]
My Sheltered Life as a Young Man
February 21, 2024 By 6 Comments
by Mike Gulett - Up until my early-twenties I was aware of, and interested in, American cars with little exposure to and little knowledge of European cars. There was that time when I was about 11 years old in Los Angeles when my friend's older … [Read more...]
The Story of a Painting: Gulf Ford GT40
January 29, 2024 By 2 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - I wrote a couple of books on the original Ford GT40s of the Sixties. So it's a car I've been in love with for a long time. I had a chance to shoot one of the real ones at Laguna Seca during a vintage race. This car is … [Read more...]
The Iso Grifo – A Design Analysis
January 22, 2024 By 9 Comments
From deep in the My Car Quest Wayback Machine comes this design analysis from October 2014 of one of my favorite cars, the Iso Grifo. The author, Raffi Minasian, is a widely published automobile designer, illustrator, writer, historian, and Pebble … [Read more...]
The Piranha Kit Car By AMT
January 14, 2024 By 2 Comments
From the My Car Quest Wayback Machine (March 2015) we see a kid's fantasy come to life (at least one of my fantasies) - a really cool full size functioning car that was also a model kit that we could buy and build. The Piranha was featured in one of … [Read more...]
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