A National Convention of Alfa Romeo Owners Converges on Northern California in July
By Mary Ann Dickinson and Steve Davis
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A National Convention of Alfa Romeo Owners Converges on Northern California in July
By Mary Ann Dickinson and Steve Davis
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1949 GORDINI 23S – CHASSIS 19GCS
Photo by Mike Jiggle, European Editor, VINTAGE RACECAR
By Ed McDonough
Anyone who has ever listened to Peter Ustinov’s fabulous motor racing spoof of the 1950s, the Grand Prix of Gibraltar, knows about Amédée Gordini. Ustinov’s parody of the Franco-Italian, Monsieur Orgini, and ‘eez funny leetle blue Orgini cars’ was not only hysterical but drew strongly on Ustinov’s knowledge of the then GP scene. The Orgini team was penniless, inclined to give up in existential despair and sit around smoking Gauloise, even while fueling the cars. Because they had no money for oil, they used a gift of sponsor’s cognac in the car instead! They couldn’t compete with the Teutonic efficiency of Herr Altbauer’s Schnorcedes team, or the drivers like Girling Foss and Bill Dill in the American Wildfowl.
According to Wikipedia, Ustinov was “a car enthusiast since the age of four, he owned a succession of interesting machines ranging from a Fiat Topolino, several Lancias, a Hispano-Suiza, a Delage and a Jowett Jupiter.”
While Ustinov’s portrayal of the French racing car constructor captured the frenetic way the team operated with very limited funding, it perhaps left a generation thinking that the real Gordini was not a serious player in the motor racing world, and that would be entirely wrong.
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By Mario Marchesini
Last week for a variety of reasons, we didn’t deliver all of the great Lambo party photos taken by correspondent Mario Marchesini. Since we don’t do much on Lamborghini, (a feature on a weekend tune up for a Miura would be fun though) we figured it was well worth running the missing images, even though the party is quite over, though moving, we hear, to California later this year.
So enjoy, without further or much comment, the running of the Bulls in Bologna.
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Story and Photos by Jonathan Sharp
Saturday the 4th May, 2013. Can it really be 27 years since my fiancé and I parked our Fiat 130 Coupe on a very wet lawn in front of Syon House in Chiswick, London for the first Auto Italia Italian Car Day?
When this year’s press release arrived from Brooklands, that is indeed what it stated; 27 years since the first event and 22 years since it moved to Brooklands. My fiancé and I are now long married, and as the weather was better than what it was 27 years ago, the turnout was huge. I was left with the feeling that there were probably more Italian cars packed into Brooklands than on an average Saturday in Turin.
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Bologna’s Mario Marchesini Describes the 50th Anniversary of Lamborghini
Story and Photos Copyright Mario Marchesini
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By Pete Vack and Kurt Hasler
All photos copyright Stephan Traber
September 9th, 1934: Benoit Falchetto, perhaps a better driver than many realized, came home first in the Grand Prix de L’UMF held on the famous banked circuit of Montlhéry, fifteen miles outside of Paris. He was driving Maserati 8CM 3015, the subject of our recent book review. On Apri 20-22, Maserati 3015 in the hands of owner Kurt Hasler, returned again to the famous French banked circuit to participate in the Montlhéry Vintage Revival.
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