My Car Quest

September 14, 2026

Shelby Mustang: We Go Back In Time (Last Saturday) and Visit the Shelby GT350 Shop

A visit to the Original Venice Crew's 1965 Shelby GT350 shop. by Wallace Wyss - If we're old enough, we all like to think we'd like to go back 50 years or so to a job we liked. Well, I kind of know what they are talking about at this car … [Read more...]

Another Lost Prototype: 1975 Opel GT-W Génève

by Wallace Wyss - I am going out on a limb here and saying if the 1975 Opel GT-W Génève did not have an engine and transmission it was just a rolling mockup, one step up from a clay model, so not a real prototype engineering wise. There's a … [Read more...]

Move Over Ferrari – Maserati’s MC20 Is Here

by Wallace Wyss - I remember back in the Fifties when a Maserati race car was considered equal to Ferrari. But Maserati fell upon hard times when Ferrari kept chugging along. At least when DeTomaso owned it, they came out with two mid-engined … [Read more...]

Editorial: Are America’s Big Three Car Makers In Too Much of a Hurry to Go Electric?

by Wallace Wyss - There is a scene in the movie, The Wizard of Oz where the intrepid Dorothy works her way up to the stage where the Wizard is pontificating and peers behind it and sees a little man with a big microphone. I am wondering, as … [Read more...]

Malibu Car Show: A Refuge From the Fires

by Wallace Wyss - The informal run-what-u-brung cars and coffee in Malibu at Cross Creek Road and Pacific Coast Highway continues each Sunday, running from 9 am to 10:30 am more or less. This is the event with no organizer, no … [Read more...]

Marketing: Mid-Engine Maserati MC20

So far, in the introduction of the MC20, Maserati has committed several marketing faux pax, but they can still save themselves by pricing it right... by Wallace Wyss - OK I get it, Maserati saw all these Ferraris rolling out the factory … [Read more...]