Carrera 924–A Flawed Excellence
A water-cooled engine? And it’s at the front? And it’s a Porsche?! The motoring press in the late ’70s couldn’t believe it. Then, at the… Read More...
Monthly Archives: February, 2015
Grim Business
Seventeen years ago, I started this magazine, in no small part, because I was finding it increasingly difficult to be surrounded by so much sadness… Read More...
Teardrops in the Wind: 1937 Lincoln Zephyr
A few miles north of Paso Robles we come up over a rise on a rolling two-lane road through Central California’s golden, hilly wine country and… Read More...
Millstones to Modern Trucks
It began in Richmond, Indiana, in 1851 when Daniel W. Marmon and his partner, a fellow named Nordyke, began manufacturing millstones. They were so successful… Read More...
Bob Cherry & Matthew Watts; Cropredy Bridge Garage, UK
The picturesque village of Cropredy, Oxfordshire, home to approximately 700 souls, is little known to most, even to those living within a 20-mile radius of… Read More...
The Wings of Fashion
Do these bellbottoms make my car look fat? Show of hands…how many of you sported a pair of bellbottoms in the 1970s? That was the… Read More...
Almost Perfection–1990 Leyton House CG901/3
Examining the Leyton House CG901 it is as much about the man who designed the car, Adrian Newey, as the car itself. It was Irish… Read More...
Haskell Wexler
Haskell Wexler is an Oscar-winning cinematographer, taking home the coveted golden trophies for his work on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Bound for Glory.… Read More...
Ross Brawn
Whoosh-bang. That sort of gives an impression of Ross Brawn’s 2009 Formula One season. The year of the spectacularly successful, flash in the pan called… Read More...
Items for the Roadcar enthusiast…
69 Pit Stop 2CV Watch Unusual by today’s standards, the speedometer of the early 2CV [See this month’s “Driven”] was mounted to the left of…
Remembering My Father
My father, Walt Hansgen, raced from 1951 to 1966, competing in 244 events and winning 106 of them. Initially he raced his own cars, but… Read More...