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.
They are very handsome. The format is most efficient as a mailer, and the cover pictures chosen are particularly exciting. The text was bedtime reading (another unique benefit of the format) and was as interesting as it was satisfying. — John Bellefleur, Professor of History
How many have been published so far?
Already there are three editions of the VeloceToday Select© series and a fourth one will be available soon. Number One is the ‘Cuban Grand Prix, 1957’ with text by David Seielstad and Pete Vack, with original color photos of the race by Robert Pauley. Number Two is the saga of ‘The Barn Find Alfa’, concentrating on one Alfa Sprint Veloce and written by its owners since 1977. Number Three is ‘Montier’s French Racing Fords’ by Chris Martin. Price includes shipping worldwide. Copies of VeloceToday Select are also available at Aerobooks Autobooks in Burbank, California and more retails outlets will be added!
I just finished the ‘1957 Cuban Grand Prix 1957’. Like the one on the ‘Barn Find Alfa’, it was excellent. The writing, photography and production were outstanding. Once you start on one of these, you’re just drawn through it.—Carl Goodwin, author of “They Started in MGs”
What about the size?
Why so small? Most of us are downsizing, and no longer have the space to collect decades of 8.5 x 11 magazines. VeloceToday Select© Folios are compact, easy to store and yet filled with great articles and photos and yet large enough to encompass a single subject in depth.
I was surprised that you could take an article and expand it to 30 pages, but you have done so with more photographs and your own commentary, which I thought added a lot, particularly the ‘Cuban Grand Prix, 1957’ These are really more comprehensive than I would have thought possible. –Brandes Elitch, automotive writer
Folio Descriptions
VeloceToday Select Number Three: Montier’s French Racing Fords
by Chris Martin
Price: $20.00
Pages: 32
Dimensions: 8.5″ x 5.5″
Description: Shipping and handling is FREE!
Chris Martin, who spent 12 years working for F1 teams, is really an old car nut. Really old cars that is, like the Montier-Fords. Once he learned of these rare Model T and A cars that raced at Le Mans and in the Grand Prix races in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he wanted to spread the word. The best way of doing that, we thought, was to get together and create the third in our series of VeloceToday Select Folios. Like the Francophile he is, Martin tracked down photos, new information and compiled a list of all the events in which these Ford based-cars raced. It is the “greatest story never told” he said. Until now that is. Packed with historical photos, Martin takes us through three generations of Montiers who all loved creating and building cars.
VeloceToday Select Number One: Cuban Grand Prix, 1957
by David Seielstad
Price: $20.00
Pages: 32
Dimensions: 8.5″ x 5.5″
Description: Shipping and handling is FREE!
*Premium Subscribers take 50% off! Contact vack@cox.net to order.
Robert Pauley, a Chrysler engineer and car enthusiast who worked with Giovanni Savonuzzi in Detroit, sent us a collection of Kodachrome slides he had taken while at the Cuban Grand Prix in 1957. While doing research for an article to accompany these wonderful and never-before-published images of this race of the gods, we found that another VeloceToday contributor, noted Ferrari historian David Seielstad, had written about the race for Forza magazine.
We combined Pauley’s photos, Seielstad’s text, and the Editor’s epilogue, “Twilight of the Gods” to create a unique view of this important but little known epic race.
VeloceToday Select Number Two: The Barn Find Alfa
Edited by Pete Vack
Price: $20.00
Pages: 32
Dimensions: 8.5″ x 5.5″
Description: Shipping and Handling are FREE.
*Premium Subscribers take 50% off! Contact vack@cox.net to order.
In 1977, the Editor retrieved an Alfa Romeo Sprint Veloce from a barn in Virginia, sold it and forgot about it. Thirty-five years later the editor received an email from the cars’ current owner, wondering if he had any as-found photos or further information about the car.
After a period of time, a series of photos of the car emerging from the barn were found during a routine clean up. This became the basis of this intriguing story of an Alfa Veloce that was once raced, lost, found, raced again and restored by a succession of owners, all of whom contributed their words and experiences for this story. A Barn Story unlike any you’ll ever read!
Backstory: Are we crazy? This is SO Retro!
Twelve years ago, we created VeloceToday.com to publish articles electronically. For printing needs, our readers could request a PDF file to print out articles themselves. They day of printed magazines was over. Or so we thought.
However, home printing often proved difficult and expensive; replacement inkjet printer cartridges can cost up to $120. The proliferation of smart phones and pads has also meant the decline in desktop PCs and therefore the printers and peripherals. Printing PDFs at a local Kinko is not inexpensive, while copyright laws also limit the extent to which such businesses will print. Many of our readers told us that there is a need for a printed product for those who do not have a printer, or even a computer, or want to be able to read great articles in the traditional fashion. We sought to fill that gap with the kind of quality product that is worthy of the VeloceToday brand.
VeloceToday Select© gives our readers several different options:
*Non-Premium Subscribers can now obtain articles otherwise available only to our Premium Subscribers
*Premium Subscribers can obtain VeloceToday Select© Folios at a 50% discount
*Premium Subscribers will get a one free copy of their choice when they subscribe or one year
*Clubs, organizations, booksellers can contact vack@cox.net for discount information, stands, and more