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Each week VeloceToday delivers exclusive and original articles written by our worldwide crew of dedicated correspondents about French and Italian cars, people and event highlights. That’s our focus and we remain committed to that goal. Sports Car Digest is a relatively new website that offers what VeloceToday doesn’t–updated news and results from sports car events and auctions.

SCD will provide timely news relevant to upcoming events, auctions, vintage, modern and rally racing results and stories, plus nearly anything and everything related to sports, racing and vintage cars Their focus is news related to sports, racing and vintage cars. Good stuff, so check it out at Sports Car Digest.com.

Dirtbag Cars: “We Love Ya”

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Dirtbag cars are so fascinating that at a European classic car show they not only displayed a “survivor” car but also the tow truck pulling it out of its lair. We predict even Pebble Beach will someday have a barn (movie set type) with a classic being unearthed from the hay bales. Photo by Brandes Elitch.

Guest Editorial By Wallace A. Wyss

VT has not, in the past, had editorials, guest or otherwise. But as the world of collector cars is constantly changing, we thought we would welcome a few articles of personal comment. Let us know how you like the feature….

Some concours call it the Unrestored class, others call it the Preservation class. Still another phrase is Survivor class.

Whatever you call it, I, for one, heartily welcome this trend.
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Bugatti by the Road Mystery Solved

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Photo by John Sexton

By Pete Vack

Two weeks ago we ran a short article about a Bugatti that was left by the side of the road due to a breakdown. We were misinformed about the type of Bugatti (no one was about to open the hood on this, and we don’t blame them). So, what kind of a Bugatti is it, and who is the rightful and current owner?
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Waktins Glen to Raffle Cobra Replica

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type-37.jpg Italian connection: The Cobra used an AC Ace body and chassis. The AC body design was originally patterned after the early Touring bodied Ferrari barchettas.

WATKINS GLEN, NY

For the second time since it began raffling high performance cars as a major fund raiser each year, the International Motor Racing Research Center at Waktins Glen, NY is offering a Cobra replica.

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From Starving Author to Starving Artist

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By Pete Vack

According to Wally Wyss (rhymes with reese) only a handful of automotive writers earn a living writing. Recently, after having authored over ten books so far and hundreds of articles, Wyss figured that in order to really succeed he would instead become an automotive illustrator.

But he also admits that the successful automotive artist is even a rarer breed than the well paid automotive writer. So we all wondered, what is Wyss thinking, using the duh word and circling our temples with an index finger.
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Alfa’s Pre War Titans, Part II

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Tazio Nuvolari, Peter Greenfield
and two Tipo C Alfa Romeo 8C35s

Color photos by www.rprincephoto.com

By Pete Vack

Read Part I

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Greenfield at Mt Tremblant with Tipo C 8C35 chassis #50015C, the last “C” standing for clone.

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At Monterey, Greenfield brought out the real thing; the ex-Nuvolari, ex-Ruesch, ex-Poore 8C35, chassis #50013.

Peter Greenfield is in the enviable position of owning and racing not one but two pre-war Alfa Romeo Grand Prix cars. Furthermore, chassis 50013 which he acquired from Peter Giddings in 2005, is the only complete, original Tipo 8C35 in the world.
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Phil Hill, On Record

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Hill with a Peugeot in a R&T ad. Now listen to the recording below.


Below, we give our readers a chance to hear a rare 33 1/3 rpm recording, sent to us on a plasticized square piece of cardboard which measures seven by seven inches. For the record, it is simplistic, it is advertising, and it is not particularly well executed, even for the late 1950s. But it offers us a unique insight into what was then a new world for Americans, that of sports car racing and strange foreign cars with even stranger names. Despite being scripted, it says something about Phil Hill we may not have been able to ascertain elsewhere. Most telling, even though it is obviously a bought and paid for commercial, it is honest, as honest as Phil Hill always was.

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Click on record to listen to Phil Hill.
Note that there is a 20 second
pause at the start.

This rare audio record came our way via Serge Dermanian, a retired Ferrari restorer living in Nice, France. Shortly after publishing an excellent article by Philippe H. Defechereux, which used an ad in which Phil Hill was photographed with a Peugeot 403, we received an email from Dermanian who mentioned that he had a record to go along with the ad. He added that he would be glad to send it along. We hooked up our stereo phonograph, carefully played the ancient audio device for pickup to a digital recorder, and finally converted it to the digitized format for use on a computer.

In addition, on this old, scratchy record, we hear Road & Track Editor John R. Bond, almost a lone voice in the wilderness, who used the magazine’s power and platform to beg Detroit to build cars with good handling, quality, common sense and good gas mileage. There is a message here, then, and now.

Our thanks to Serge Dermanian for finding and sending along this rare recording of the late Phil Hill. Note that there is a 20 second pause before the actual voices are heard, so have patience.

Lynch at the Quail 2008

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We lost one of our finest when World Champion Phil Hill left us on August 28. He was enjoying cars and his many friends and admirers right up until the end. Phil won three races at the old Pebble Beach road course and also won the Pebble Beach Concours twice with cars he restored personally. Here, he poses at The Quail with former Ferrari President, Jean Todt, who managed Ferrari’s racing team during the Schumacher era. Credit: Marcel Massini

Michael T. Lynch reports on this year’s Quail Logde happenings.

The Quail – A Motorsports Gathering has now established itself as the hottest ticket of Monterey Peninsula automobile festival week. The tickets sold out back near the beginning of 2008 in a matter of hours. [Read more…] about Lynch at the Quail 2008

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