by Wallace Wyss - Now I’d like to preface my capsule history of this car, aka The Egg, with the remark that: beauty does not guarantee a big sales price, nor does a big name coachbuilder. In this case the Ferrari in question was ugly as sin … [Read more...]
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Car Of The Day – 1963 Cheetah Race Car
May 5, 2019 By 3 Comments
by Mike Gulett - Bill Thomas created the Cheetah to compete with the Shelby Cobra in 1963 and produced 16 or 17 examples between 1963 and 1965. Thomas had help from Chevrolet in the beginning because they wanted to beat the Ford powered Shelby … [Read more...]
Vintage Racing Returns to Fontana, California
May 2, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Text and photos by Richard Bartholomew - The last weekend in April 2019 saw the return of the SVRA to the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. The SVRA is the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association, one of the oldest and largest vintage … [Read more...]
Remembering the Porter Special, a Mercedes 300SL Hot Rod
February 18, 2019 By 8 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - When I was one and twenty, or thereabouts, I bought an old Mercedes. It was a Gullwing 300SL. I heard about it from a car designer at GM who was restoring one. He didn’t want to sell his but said he had an old roommate up in … [Read more...]
Porsche’s Italian Adventure – The Porsche 356 Abarth Carrera GT/L
December 26, 2018 By 6 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - The Porsche family were Austrians. They were doing pretty well developing race cars in the early ‘50s, especially the mid-engined Porsche 550 Spyder, but it bothered them that a fellow Austrian, Carlo Abarth, working in Italy, … [Read more...]
John Fitch, A Cunningham C-4 And Two Movie Stars
October 30, 2018 By 13 Comments
by Mike - I was scanning through the book, "American Sports Car Racing in the 1950s" by Michael T. Lynch, William Edgar and Ron Parravano, when I spotted these two photos of John Fitch in a Cunningham C-4 racecar. These were taken at March … [Read more...]
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