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Introducing VeloceToday Select©
What is VeloceToday Select©?
VeloceToday Select© is a 32 page 8.5 by 5.5 landscape formated high quality full color printed folio, center stapled with high gloss paper. It is both a magazine and a book; always in print, it is not a periodical; they are not dated but numbered. New Folios will be published 4-6 times a year and already are gaining collectible status.
I loved the concept and format. The impact of the articles would have been diminished in a larger format, congratulations! Please put me down for one of each in the future. — Frank Allocca, noted car collector
VeloceToday Select© began as means to provide readers with quality hard copy articles from the VeloceToday archives. However, once the series was created, we were encouraged to include material not found in the VeloceToday database. Our future plans include both new and old articles from your favorite authors. [Read more…] about Introducing VeloceToday Select©
Lancia Dagrada Formula Junior
By Pete Vack
With the announcement of a new “Formula Junior” class in 1958, there was a remarkable flowering of individual designs to populate the grids of the new formula. Race car constructors from America, Italy, England, Germany and France grabbed whatever engine was close to 1100c–BMCs, Fiats, Fords, Renaults–and served them up in a bewildering variety of concoctions. Among the fastest, and certainly the loudest, are the ten or eleven cars built by Angelo Dagrada of Milan.
Born in 1912, Dagrada earned a living as a mechanic, and built several race cars for the Italian 750 and 1100 cc races so popular after WWII. Building a reputation as a speed wizard, Dagrada improved upon the Fiat 1100-Siata head and combustion chambers. His cars achieved some significant wins, but a series of road accidents in the early 1950’s put further race car activities on hold. But by 1955, Dagrada was once again in the speed business, this time with Alfas.
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Review by Pete Vack
Photos courtesy Leo Schildkamp
In October of 2004, Leo Schildkamp became the owner of a Lancia Dagrada Formula Junior, chassis #001. It had been in an incident at Goodwood in 2003 and had been significantly damaged.
Schildkamp would spend the next several years restoring the car, one of perhaps ten Formula Juniors built by Angelo Dagrada from 1958 to about 1960. When the restoration was complete, Schildkamp gathered the notes and photos of the car’s history and restoration and instead of putting them in a loose-leaf binder, used a vanity press called ‘blurb’ to produce a hardbound booklet. There is very little text, but a great deal of photos and information about Dagradas, most in color.
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Gordini Book Contest and Features This Week, 6-27, 2013
IF you are a Premium Subscriber and would like a chance to win this book, you have until Sunday, June 30th, at 12 midnight EDT USA, to send me an email (vack@cox.net) with your name (mailing address optional). All entries will be put into a box and drawing will be made on Monday. The winner will receive a new copy of Amédée Gordini–a true racing legend provided by the publisher, Veloce Publishing. Shipping will be paid by VeloceToday.com.
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Features This Week, June 20, 2013
Interview with Marc Sonnery
Marc Sonnery
By Wallace Wyss
[We’ll have a review of the latest book by Marc Sonnery next week]
Marc Sonnery, age 48, half French and half Swedish, is a fit and well-groomed author who is ready to travel the globe in his quest to write about his favorite marque, Maserati. His name was seen in CAVALLINO for ten years, where he wrote about Ferraris, but in the 1990’s he began researching Maseratis and now spends most of his waking hours researching the history of various models. So it is that he recently authored a book on the Maserati models built when Citroen owned Maserati as well as the Citroën SM. I met with him during Sonnery’s California publicity swing and had an opportunity to do a short interview.
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30th Annual Fiat FreakOut
A Special Announcement from the Fiat Club of America
Fiat Club America cordially invites all Italian Car enthusiasts attend to the 30th Annual Fiat FreakOut national convention in Long Island, July 18-22nd at the Hyatt Regency, Hauppauge, NY.
Celebrate our great tradition of Italian Motoring with us this summer! Hundreds of vintage Italian cars will be there! All Italian cars welcome, including the concorso and drives. Join us for a weekend of activities and register your car today! Sponsored by Fiat. See and drive the new Fiat 500L 4 door, Abarth Cabrio and learn more about Alfa Romeo’s triumphant return to North America! Fiat/Alfa dealers will be on hand to answer questions about the Alfa 4C and upcoming Alfa models.
The Convention will be held at the Hyatt Regency, 1717 Motor Parkway, Hauppauge, NY 11788 USA. Call 631-784-1234 to reserve a room at Fiat Club America rates! Mention “Fiat” and get a special $119 per night! Pricing ends June 29.
Features This Week, June 13th
Sir Stirling got his, Gonzales got his, and you could be next…
Left, Roy P. Smith gives Sir Stirling Moss his copy of AmédéeGordini-a true racing legend. Photo by Pete Austin. In a few weeks, we will have a drawing to see who will win this book (retails for £55, $85.41 USD).
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