by Wallace Wyss - Carroll Shelby once had a Goodyear racing tire shop in Gardena tucked into a corner where the Interstate 110 and 405 freeways meet. Each year for the last several years, there’s been a gathering of Shelby fans sponsored … [Read more...]
Los Angeles Shelby Club Celebrates Ford v. Ferrari Movie With Gathering At Former Shelby Headquarters
September 18, 2019 By 2 Comments
Review of The First Reviews of Ford v. Ferrari
September 16, 2019 By 2 Comments
EDITOR’S NOTE: Normally we would wait until Nov. 15th, when the film premieres in the U.S. but since reviews are already being run by those who saw it in advance, we asked our Shelby/GT40 expert (author of three books on the subject) to review the … [Read more...]
The De Tomaso P70 to Appear During Monterey Car Week
August 13, 2019 By 1 Comment
by Wallace Wyss - Sometimes old race cars, even if they never race, have a way of re-appearing decades later. Such is the case with the 1965 De Tomaso P70. Originally it started out as a project with partners Alejandro DeTomaso and Carroll … [Read more...]
In Remembrance – Lee Iacocca
July 5, 2019 By 3 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - I met over lunch with a fellow author recently, a historian, but could not convince him of my theory that one man could make the difference on a race team or managing an auto empire. He maintained everybody was important, down … [Read more...]
Ford v. Ferrari – The Trailer: An Enthusiast’s Review
June 4, 2019 By 2 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Yes, there are even reviews of trailers. Why? Well, here on My Car Quest (and other car sites) because this is shaping up to be an important movie to car enthusiasts, actually to two separate groups--the rah-rah-America-wins … [Read more...]
The Mystery Cobra Still Confounds Historians – AC MA200
May 30, 2019 By 4 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Now some historians lay into A.C. Cars Ltd, the fabricators of the Cobra, saying they were crude builders, with no finesse, no modern engineering. Some of that’s true. But there is one prototype that is out and … [Read more...]
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