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Story by Brandes Elitch
Photos by Steve Snyder
The 11th annual edition of the Quail Motorcycle Gathering was held on May 4 on the grounds of the luxury resort Quail Lodge, in Carmel Valley, California, just east of the Carmel-Monterey peninsula. This event, created, curated, managed, and directed by local impresario Gordon McCall, must be the premier motorcycle concours in the country, if not the world. [Read more…] about The Quail Motorcycle Gathering, 2019
Last week, the French Grand Prix in dioramas. This week, Berryman takes us to the ritzy Mediterranean mecca of Monaco. Above, 1955 Monaco GP – The field jostles its way around the Gasworks hairpin right after the race start.
Story and photos by Clyde Berryman
Monaco is perhaps one of the most inspiring locales for the subject of a diorama but both architectural requirements and elevation changes can make it one of the most challenging as well for the builder! To date, I have done four Monaco Grand Prix dioramas as follows per below. [Read more…] about Grand Prix Dioramas: Monaco
By Alain Raymond
Italy, 2012
“The Mario Righini automobile collection is one of the finest private collections in Italy. Would you like to visit?” asks Signora Adriana Zini, Director of Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari, in Modena. [Read more…] about The Righini Collection
Story by Graham Gauld
Photos by Graham Gauld and Jonathan Sharp
As regular readers know, I have a great interest in coachbuilding. Though I believe the true high point in coachbuilding elegance was in the 1930s, I keep finding examples of post-war elegance that follow along the same lines. [Read more…] about Italian Coachwork on Jaguar Chassis
By L. Tyrone Stoner
All photos courtesy Tyrone Stoner
Lead photo: L. Tyrone Stoner’s Italia, number 195, one of three Italias owned by the Author. Photo courtesy of Collectible Automobile magazine. From the archives, March, 2009
What “Wacky” Arnott and Bertone did for Bristol and MG, and what Zagato would do for Aston Martin, Italian entrepreneur Salvatore Ruffino figured he could do for the Triumph TR3; modernize and Italianize.
Story by Dino Brunori
In the Mille Miglia won by Marzotto and his Ferrari in 1950, there was a great victory by one of the small builders – what we today call the Etceterinis. The first car that arrived on Viale Rebuffone in Brescia was not, as usual, one of the most powerful cars which left between five and seven o’clock in the morning, but a little red berlinetta from the 750 sport class.
It was the first time that such a thing happened. [Read more…] about The Cars of Rudolfo Patriarca
Story and photos by Clyde Berryman
This installment of the Clyde Berryman Grand Prix Dioramas deals with the French Grand Prix. Above, a scene from the 1957 French GP (Rouen les Essarts) – A Commissaire and his dog survey the action at Nouveau Monde hairpin. [Read more…] about Grand Prix Dioramas: French Grand Prix
By David Beare
From the VeloceToday Archives, November 2013
It is unlikely that Louis Delagarde, the designer of Panhard’s flat-twin engine, could have foreseen the scale of competition successes his diminutive power-unit would achieve when he began work at his drawing-board during the dark days of World War II.
Last week in our story on dioramas, Clyde Berryman discussed how he became interested in motor racing, when as a child he was told about the prewar Grand Prix races while living in Tripoli. We therefore begin this series with his amazing diorama of the Tripoli Grand Prix, held at the Mellaha Circuit, in 1/43 scale.
Story and photos by Clyde Berryman
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
This week we present forty photos of drivers, GT cars and Le Mans Prototypes at the Goodwood Members’ Meeting. But I also must tell you that my ‘House’ won at Goodwood! Perhaps I had best explain. [Read more…] about Goodwood Members’ Meeting, Part 2
From the VeloceToday Archives, December 15, 2010
By Brian Winer
Photos by Mitch Schwartzburg
It sometimes happens that a man falls in love with a car. Not just “falls in love,” no that’s not a strong enough phrase; let’s say “passionately” in love. Because how else could you explain someone buying a $300 Fiat 850 and pouring over $32,000 into it? [Read more…] about Fiat 850 Spider Racecar
Story and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
This year the Techno-Classica classic car show held in Essen, Germany, April 13-14, celebrated its 30th birthday. With the Parisian Rétromobile show, it remains at the top of the European classic car shows in terms of the number and the quality of cars presented (more than 2,700 this year) and the number of visitors (190,000 over four days). [Read more…] about Techno Classica at Essen, 2019