Text and photos by Wallace Wyss - If you are used to full blown concours like Pebble Beach, then the Beverly Hills Father's Day show held on Sunday June 18 on Father's Day in Beverly Hills, the Rodeo Drive® Concours d’Elegance, is more of … [Read more...]
Design Critique: Mercedes-Benz Vision One-Eleven
June 19, 2023 By 1 Comment
This Mercedes concept design is a homage to their 1960s C-111 prototype. by Wallace Wyss - Mercedes-Benz recently unveiled the Vision One-Eleven, an electric homage to the gillinged metallic orange C111 experimental supercar first shown … [Read more...]
Editorial: Tesla vs Detroit
June 14, 2023 By 9 Comments
Tesla Wins Another Round. by Wallace Wyss - This battle never was of forces evenly matched. Tesla started out almost in somebody's garage like Apple, but they always had a different mission--to electrify the automobile industry. Detroit … [Read more...]
Ferrari 250LM Artist’s History
June 7, 2023 By 3 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - A lot of the cars I paint in oil on canvas I only have a scant memory of but some I've seen in person. When I first moved to California to stay (having worked the summer of '65 for Motor Trend) in 1970 I started attending … [Read more...]
The Benedict Castle Car Show
June 5, 2023 By 2 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - I won't call the Benedict Castle Concours Car Show a concours--too many cars are modified. But it's not a hot rod show either--there were some million dollar classics there--my favorite a custom bodied prewar Bugatti from … [Read more...]
The Case of the Custom Carrera
June 3, 2023 By 3 Comments
A 356 with a colorful history including a bank robber and a Hollywood Kustomizer. by Wallace Wyss - I used to drop into Hollywood customizer Dean Jeffries’ shop whenever I passed by, on that road that paralleled the Hollywood freeway in … [Read more...]
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