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VeloceToday for Tuesday, April 1 2014

April 1, 2014 By pete

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Cuban Grand Prix, 1957
by David Seielstad

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Respect and Responsibility: Restoring the Itier Bugatti

April 1, 2014 By pete

Alan Söderström, seen standing by his Bugatti roadster in 1965, didn't know it, but under this unusual body was a Grand Prix car. Current owner Henrik Schou-Nielsen recounts the story for VeloceToday.

By Henrik Schou-Nielsen (and staff)

Danish architect Henrik Schou-Nielsen tells us the fascinating story of a famous racing Bugatti that seemed to have disappeared over the years, only to be found at long last hiding under a striking art deco styled roadster. The discovery resulted in a 10 year project that skilfully preserved two very different Bugattis, one of which turned out to be the Grand Prix Bugatti raced by Anne-Cécile Itier in the 1930s. We’ll let Schou-Nielsen take it from here.

Itier in her T51A Bugatti at the Nurburgring in 1934.

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Louis Bionier, French Designer, Part 2

April 1, 2014 By pete

‘Like in an airplane.. the Dyna will make you free from the harshness of the ground and its resonances’ is a free translation of the text in this Panhard publicity folder.

By Gijsbert-Paul Berk

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In Part 1 of his look at Panhard’s remarkable Louis Bionier, Gijsbert-Paul Berk described how Bionier designed the Panoramic and Dynamic Panhards in the 1930s. In Part 2, we learn how the post-war Dyna X was developed.

Was the Panhard Dyna an automotive cuckoo’s egg?

There are some mysteries concerning the origin of the postwar Panhard Dyna.Was it designed by Jean-Albert Grégoire (as some French experts claim on Wikipedia) or by the duo Louis Delagarde, Louis Bionier at Panhard & Levassor? The story of the gestation of this interesting car was extensively described in the review by Peter Vack of the book ‘Panhard, the flat twin cars 1945-1967’ by David Beare on VeloceToday of 8 August 2013 but if you want to refresh your memory we must take you back to the prewar years. [Read more…] about Louis Bionier, French Designer, Part 2

Alfa Sprint Speciale Reconsidered

April 1, 2014 By pete

Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale 1600. Yes, and well, no. Photo by Pete Vack.

By Pete Vack

To some eyes, the Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale (1957-1966) was a great looking piece of automotive art. Yet, so radical, so sweeping was the scope of the design, to this day there may not be a consensus. Is it a work of rolling art or is it a bloated caricature of a space age nightmare? What was the original intent? Did the SS live up to expectations?

The best laid plans… [Read more…] about Alfa Sprint Speciale Reconsidered

Arutunoff and the Appia Zagato Part 2

April 1, 2014 By pete

At the Monterey Historics with the second Appia Zagato.

By Toly Arutunoff

Read Part I

I have previously related the tale of my first Appia Zagato. You’re gonna think I’m mildly nuts but just as George Starch can’t remember what he did with his Zagato, I can’t remember what happened to mine! I’ve seen it advertised a few years ago in Hemmings as ‘Toly Arutunoff’s car’ but I never checked on it. [Read more…] about Arutunoff and the Appia Zagato Part 2

VeloceToday for March 25, 2014

March 25, 2014 By pete

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Finally. history of the 1963 – 1968 USRRC series. 438 pages of race stories, full results, course maps & records and more detail in a 9″ x 12″ hardback book with deluxe box. 500 color & b/w photos of Chaparral, Cobra, Lola, Lotus, McKee, McLaren, and drivers, on the track and in the pits. Superb layout includes program covers and Index.
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Scarab: Race long of the all American Specials 1957-1965 Photos by Dave Friedman. This book contains the signatures of Lance Reventlow and Chuck Daigh! Preston Lerner’s definite story of the Reventlow Scarab project and the F1 adventures, published in 1991. 176 pages. 450 Euro. Click pic for more photos. Contact info@du-commerce.nl

I would like to offer a complete set of Automobile Quarterly for sale. Slip covers and indexes included. No library is complete without this set. A set sold at Bonhams last year for $3,500.00. I am asking $2,400.00 USD.
David W Hewitt, contact m33n3@rcn.com Click pic for large images.

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Graham Gauld at Avignon

March 25, 2014 By pete

Been there and done that. Upon seeing the Schlumpf V12 250F at Avignon, our weathered correspondent pulls out a photo he took of the 250F V12 when new for comparison's sake. And note that line up of coils -shocking to say the least!

Story and photos by Graham Gauld

Just over a month ago, I was at Retromobile in Paris and a friend of mine suggested I try similar thing, the Avignon Motor Festival in that well-known city famous for its bridge. So last Friday we drove to Avignon to take a look. [Read more…] about Graham Gauld at Avignon

Louis Bionier, French Designer Part 1

March 25, 2014 By pete

Panhard-Dynamic by artist Alexis Kow.

Who is Louis Bionier? Gijsbert-Paul Berk explains the great French engineer

It is well known that Panhard et Levassor, founded in 1886, was one of the French pioneers as manufacturers of automobiles. Panhard et Levassor constructed their first ‘motorcar’ in 1891. Many are familiar with the names of the great designers that shaped the coachwork of French automobiles in the years before and just after WWII. Still, it would not be surprising if only a few can place Louis Bionier and his work. [Read more…] about Louis Bionier, French Designer Part 1

Arutunoff and the Appia

March 25, 2014 By pete

The Arutunoff Appia Zagato at the Walter Mitty at Atlanta in 1984. Photo by Pete Vack

By Toly Arutunoff

In 1964 it seemed like I needed a companion in the garage for my Lancia Flaminia Zagato. The previous year, after our good finishes in the Targa Florio, Nurburgring 1000km, and Spa 500km, the factory offered me a straight swap for my car and one of the GTS Appia Zagatos, guaranteed for 117 mph. I turned the offer down, but later I saw an ad for an Appia Zagato in Rhode Island for $900. I heard it call my name and before I knew it we were on our way east from our lair in Oklahoma. [Read more…] about Arutunoff and the Appia

VeloceToday for March 18, 2014

March 18, 2014 By pete

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Race historian Carl Goodwin’s first book profiles of eighty drivers, rich and famous, well known and little known, who first raced with an MG. In almost all cases, however, those same drivers quickly got a seat in a faster, usually Italian car. Great stories, great photos. “They Started in MGs” has 291 pages, 278 photos and is 7 by 10 inches. Click pic to read review. The ISBN is 978-0-7864-6052-6. Price is $35.00 plus shipping and is available signed by the author at attlastt@frontier.net

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Ferrari Fever: A Life

March 18, 2014 By pete

A photo taken before the 1984 Mille Miglia. Paul Schouwenburg with the champagne, son Lennart in the foreground. This is his life.

Review by Pete Vack
All photos courtesy Eau Rouge Publishing and Paul Schouwenburg

Retail Price Standard Edition: £ 85.00
ISBN-10: 0957397828 Eau Rouge Publishing, U.K. www.eaurougepublishing.com
ISBN-13: 978-0957397828
Retail Price Deluxe Edition: £ TBA

The book is available in two hard copy formats, Standard and *Deluxe, both with dustjackets and slipcases.

Right from the start you realize that Paul Schouwenburg is a fellow traveler. The minute he writes of finding that an Alfa 1900 is strangely out of time due to the distributor being inserted into the block at 360 degrees out you know he’s a car guy. When he takes a much modified Mini Cooper and terrorizes half of Holland you can relate; he has problems with the Bosch solenoid on his Ferrari, you recall having the same adventures in good starting; testing an old aluminum head, he pours water into it to do a pressure test and finds it would make a great sprinkler, we sympathize; when he restored cars on his own, towed them with ropes, or drove them home on a wing and a prayer, you’ve been there; the pain is understood when he is beaten in a deal to buy an ultra-rare Ferrari. When he had to borrow money from his father to buy that 212 Inter with engine problems, it rings bells. [Read more…] about Ferrari Fever: A Life

The Best GT OSCA Ever Made

March 18, 2014 By pete

Hugues Vanhoolandt focuses on the OSCA Vignale sn 1153.

By Pete Vack, Jack Thomas and Paul Schouwenburg

Of all the great cars owned by Paul Schouwenburg which found a place in his new book Ferrari Fever, (read review) this one is not as famous as the Alfas and Ferraris that dominated Schouwenburg’s collections, but it is perhaps one of the most interesting and beautiful cars ever built. The OSCA, the Vignale 1500 SN 1153 MT4 2AD Berlinetta is also arguably OSCA’s greatest Grand Touring car, and most certainly the most original.

OSCA MT4 1500 Vignale together with our Aurelia B24 during Milano-Sanremo. My wife Catherine drove her B24 spider America Nardi and I the Osca with son Olivier-Paul Schouwenburg-

One of only four road going OSCA MT4s built at the factory and designated to receive Berlinetta coachwork, OSCA 1153 was purchased from the factory by a Frenchman, Monsieur J.L. Abreu, at the Turin Show in 1955. In the late 1960s, the car was sold to the famous collector, Walter Grell of Switzerland, who kept the car for over 30 years and drove it sparingly. In 2000, it was purchased by Dr. Paul Schouwenburg who relates the following:

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