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Photos by Alessandro Gerelli
The eighth edition of Milano AutoClassica Auto Show was held at Fiera Milano (Rho) on 23rd, 24th and 25th November 2018. A large number of vendors were present with over 2000 vintage cars and an extraordinary range of products, for an estimated total value of over 150 million euros. A large section was dedicated to spare parts, with 150 companies presenting their goods. [Read more…] about AutoClassica Milano 2018
Obviously, this photo taken by Alessandro Gerelli at this year’s AutoClassica Milano caught our eye. That color. A mint green. Now, I don’t know if that was a factory color for those early 750 series Sprints. I don’t think the color was offered for the U.S. cars but I could be wrong.
Then I remembered I had an old bubble gum card from T.C.G…a company that made an entire line of artistically styled foreign cars in the 1960s, the Alfa was card number 47. And this one a 750 Sprint in the same mint green. [Read more…] about And How! Mint Giulietta
Review By Pete Vack
I am not an automobilia collector. I’m not in the market, don’t know the market, and couldn’t tell you if something was a fake unless it was labeled as such. I don’t even know how to find the values of automobilia and never watch the auction circuit. An Automobilia Ignoramus if you will.
So when I heard about the new magazine, AutoMobilia, The Collector’s Resource, I didn’t pay a great deal of attention. Then Sharon Spurlin, the magazine’s publisher, sent me the first two issues. And that got my attention. [Read more…] about AutoMobilia, The Collector’s Resource, Reviewed
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
Visible on the horizon, about 8 miles out from Brighton’s pebble beaches, is the new Rampion wind farm. It got me thinking of the progress that technology has made over the past 120 years or so. [Read more…] about The Brighton Run, 2018
Story by Paul Wilson
Photos by Jonathan Sharp
I just returned from watching the Brighton Run for the second time as a spectator. It’s a feel-good event that’s got much wider appeal than the races and car shows I often go to. It’s not competitive: there’s no prize for arriving first (in fact you’re told not to go too fast), the simple cars and fancier ones get equal appreciation from the crowds of cheering fans. Thousands of them line the 60-mile route, smiling and waving at the cars as they go by. I didn’t see a single participant who didn’t look delighted by the experience–though I have to say, this year it was sunny and pleasant, which is unusual in November in England. [Read more…] about A Tourist at the Brighton Run
Photos and story by Hugues Vanhoolandt
As you know, Pegasos are very rare sports cars that were manufactured in Spain between 1951 and 1956. The main goal of the company was to build trucks, vans and buses for which there was a need in the context of Spain’s economic recovery after the difficult times of the Spanish civil war and WWII. [Read more…] about Pegaso Exhibtion at Belgium’s Autoworld
Story by Jim Sitz
Photos by Strother MacMinn courtesy Bob Ames and Dale LaFollette
After reading Wallace Wyss’s recent article on the Pasadena Art Center, Jim Sitz thought there should have been a mention of Strother MacMinn, who devoted almost 50 years teaching at the Art Center. But MacMinn was also a sports car fan and photographer, and below we include a portfolio of photos from a very early Carrell Speedway event for our readers to identify. [Read more…] about Remembering Strother MacMinn
From the Archives, December 26, 2012
We recently asked Gijsbert-Paul Berk if he had a favorite Talbot-Lago. Reaching into his huge bank of automotive experiences, he told us about driving the ultra-rare 2.5 liter 1955-56 Gran Turismo coupe on the banking at Montlhéry. Above is the author’s test car on the cover of the June 1956 issue of the Dutch magazine “Autovisie”. The photo was taken in front of the gate of the stately house called Oostermeer on the bank of the river Amstel near Amsterdam.
This is the last week of this incredible offer!
Story and photos by Alan Boe
In the mid-1950s Ferrari was deeply immersed in the business of building, selling, and racing an impressive array of sports cars; four, six and twelve cylinder engines were employed in spyders and berlinettas bodied by Touring, Vignale, Scaglietti, and Pinin Farina on chassis of varying wheelbases. The ability to manufacture such an amazing variety of sporting machinery did not seem particularly out of the ordinary…for Ferrari. It was accepted practice then, but it would be impossible today! And none of Ferrari’s competition of the time was ever able to produce anywhere near the range of sports racing cars that Ferrari did.
Text and photos by Aldo Zana
When you have a dream and your family name is Porsche, you can make it happen. Grandfather Ferdinand, the “Professor”, designed the P-Wagen Grand Prix Auto Union and the Volkswagen; his only son, Ferry, established and ran the Porsche brand from the early 356 to the 911; grandson Hans-Peter (78, Ferry’s third son) built a paradise on earth for lovers of the world and art of tin toys.
In 2015, he opened to the public “Traumwerk” (it could be translated as: “The factory of dreams”), a museum celebrating the history and tradition of tin toys across nearly a century, from the late Eighteenth century to the 1970s, when plastic and die-cast metal alloy became the main materials for scale models of cars, aicrafts, trains and ships.
Story by Graham Gauld
If you read the first article in this series you will recall the photograph of Felice Nazzaro at the wheel of the 18 liter Fiat S-B 4 Corsa “ Mephistopheles” that was sent to England to race against the Napier race car at Brooklands. [Read more…] about Fiat Grand Prix Race Driver, Felice Nazzaro