My Car Quest

December 22, 2024

Doin’ The Quail In Carmel

by Wallace Wyss The Quail, A Motor Sport Gathering, one of the premiere events of Monterey Car week, is really a unique event. You can’t say it is a concours because it is not so much a contest of which car is more beautiful or correctly restored … [Read more...]

An Apology To Gary Wales About His Bentley From Wallace Wyss

by Wallace Wyss - Now there is, I dare say, no more bombastic a person in the old car biz than Gary Wales of Woodland Hills, California. I have known him for decades, and always like basking in his shadow as he recounts yet another tale from … [Read more...]

The Ferrari 250 Breadvan – A Joke That Went Too Far?

by Wallace Wyss - Let’s flash back to the Sixties. Imagine you are a state trooper in New York State, sitting behind a billboard and just starting your third bagel. You see a station wagon, a red one with flashy wire wheels, go by. He seems to … [Read more...]

The Ferrari In The Lake

Yes, it's a multi-million dollar car now, but it's how it got there that's the story... by Wallace Wyss - I suppose some Ferrari owners are what we middle class kids used to call “snooty.” One of the snootiest I ever met was a TV producer … [Read more...]

Old Photos Of The Ferrari Breadvan And Other Ferraris From 1965 or 1966

by Mike - Dave Craddock left a comment on the Ferrari Breadvan Post and said he had pictures of the Breadvan and other Ferrari’s at the Detroit Autorama in the 1965-66 time frame. Gary Wales and Richard Merritt had just brought the cars into the … [Read more...]