My Car Quest

September 9, 2025

The Low and Slow Car Show

Wherein our Correspondent Attends the Corn Feed Run Car Show & Cruise on Saturday, April 26, 2025 in Chino, California. Text and photos by Wallace Wyss - Now it might seem inconstant that a guy who can, most of the time, tell a James Young … [Read more...]

Design Critique: Ferrari F80

by Wallace Wyss - The new Ferrari F80 is not just a road car, it is a car in the hypercar class. Not so coincidentally it was announced a month after McLaren unveiled the W1. The Ferrari F80 is not, thank heavens, an all electric. It is a … [Read more...]

Preview: La Jolla Concours – 2025

Text by Wallace Wyss and Curtis Bien - photos by Geoffrey Horton from 2015 OK the formula sounds familiar. Seaside location. Tourist town. Plenty of sunshine. Pebble Beach? No. La Jolla, a posh suburb of San Diego. The 19th Annual La Jolla … [Read more...]

Editorial: Jaguar …

OK, alright already, I get it... by Wallace Wyss - It wasn't until I recently saw a finely kept up '66 Olds Toronado that I figured out what Jaguar is doing with those block-long flat painted luxury concepts (Jaguar Type 00). I see that they … [Read more...]

Design Commentary – The New Corvette (One Proposal)

by Wallace Wyss - I wish I could say that I am happy with it—after all it is mid-engined and didn’t I hammer on GM for decades that they need to go mid-engined for the Corvette to be a leading edge contemporary? But the result, in at least the … [Read more...]

A Muddled History of the DeTomaso Pantera

by Wallace Wyss - 1971 Pantera Any history of DeTomaso has to be “muddled” because unlike the Ferrari or Porsche world the factory itself put out erroneous information, and had no library to speak of. Histories of DeTomaso cars have be be … [Read more...]