Jaguar Gomm
“Boy’s Own” Racer Personally speaking, I’m not an advocate of racing specials, especially those cars built that have little, or no period history. Having said… Read More...
Browsing: December ’17
The JPS Lotus Ground-Effect GP Cars
Forty years ago, in 1977 and ’78, Mario Andretti was the man to beat in Grand Prix racing aboard Colin Chapman’s JPS Lotus 78 and… Read More...
John Sismey
It was seeing Raymond Mays’ ERA that first drew a young John Sismey to mechanical engineering. After a grammar school education, he worked as an… Read More...
Missing Negatives, Missing Persons
A little over 20 years ago, I made a radical switch from research scientist to magazine publisher. That ridiculous move was crazy enough, but I… Read More...
Luigi Chinetti
An Alfa Romeo car mechanic who rose to become one of the greatest endurance drivers of his generation, the man responsible for establishing Ferrari in… Read More...
Ken Miles
One of the big, I can say semi-disappointments in my life was a race I had with Ken Miles at Laguna Seca in, I want… Read More...
Lotus 20 FJ
Ron Harris was a wealthy man who had a company distributing 16-mm films, obviously prior to the days of video, who was running his own… Read More...
Fast Fernando
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall; Who is the fastest of them all?” Many are the racing drivers, fast and slow, who would like to answer… Read More...
Hortal’s Argentine Plymouth
This is Fernando Hoyos’ depiction of the 1939 Plymouth raced by C. Hortal in the 2,751-mile-long Gran Premio Extraordinario between the cities of Cordoba and… Read More...
Fast Exposure
December 2017 When Colin Chapman was investigating four-wheel drive for his Lotus Formula One cars, he designed the Type 63, which Mario Andretti qualified 12th… Read More...
1959 Deutsch-Bonnet HBR-5 (Chassis #1028)
I want to be Rich Plavetich. Is he cool? Check. Does he have a wonderful and beautiful wife who also loves cars? Check. How about… Read More...