My Car Quest

March 29, 2024

This Ferrari 750 Monza Spider Once Was Powered By A Custom Offenhauser Engine? – No It Was Not

by Mike - A Ferrari 750 Monza Spider race car is up for auction at the RM auction in Paris on 5 February 2014 and was not powered by the custom Offenhauser engine commissioned by George Tilp. It is the Ferrari Monza that George Tilp once … [Read more...]

The Most Stately Offenhauser Engine – The George Tilp Offy – Once Owned By Phil Hill

by Mike In the 1950s what would you do if you had a lot of money and you wanted to own and drive race winning cars? First you would buy the best car you could find, then you would get the best drivers like Phil Hill, Dan Gurney and Richie Ginther … [Read more...]

An Apollo GT – The First Owner

by Mike - Ron Kellogg has owned many cars in his years of automobile obsession. He bought three Apollo GT bodies directly from Apollo as the company was going out of business in 1966. He sold two of the bodies to friends and he finished one … [Read more...]

Driving The Elegant Jaguar Aerodyne

by Mike - The Jaguar Aerodyne is beautiful, elegant and is quite quick with the 3.8-liter Jaguar XKE engine. Watch the video on full screen - it is 1.5 minutes long. Ron Kellogg, the owner, is driving and I am operating the camera. … [Read more...]

The Studebaker Avanti Once Owned By Dick Van Dyke

by Mike - I was visiting my friends Ron and Sonya Kellogg in Southern California yesterday and sitting in their garage is one of their recent acquisitions. They bought this beautiful 1963 Studebaker Avanti R-1 Coupe at the Auctions America … [Read more...]