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And How! 4-25: Fiat Sedan vs Formula Cars

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And How! is a new regular feature in VeloceToday, just right for those stories which are too short or too little or news items that don’t qualify as full length articles.

Boyle/Piercey Fiat 125T at Phillip Island, 2017.

We did a bit on Steve Boyle’s 1972 Fiat 125T in VeloceToday’s coverage of the Phillip Island Classic. but since then, we received a bit of on track footage from Boyle that puts a new light on the car’s abilities and have included it below. [Read more…] about And How! 4-25: Fiat Sedan vs Formula Cars

VeloceToday for April 18, 2017

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And How! features the Simca 8 Sport, Hugues Vanhoolandt celebrates 10 years with VeloceToday at Techno Classica Essen, we review the controversial new McQueen Le Mans book, and Part 2 of a Life of Lancias with Lucas van Dobben.

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And How! 4-28: Life and Death of a Simca 8

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And How! is a new regular feature in VeloceToday, just right for those stories which are too short or too little or news items that don’t qualify as full length articles.

Jerry Lehrer’s Simca 8 Sport at a New York car event sometime in 1951. Photo courtesy Jerry Lehrer.

Life, Death and Rebirth of a Simca 8. But is it the same car?

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A Life of Lancias, Part 2

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Lucas picked up this B20 in 1970 for 1300 Gulden. But there were TWO more B20s in the same deal!

By Pete Vack and Lucas van Dobben

Last week in A Life of Lancias Lucas wrote about his experiences working at the Lancia dealership and the Tulip Rally. Along the way, he naturally found many Lancias for himself. He had no less than FOUR B20s, “one with all the Nardi extras and Borani bimetal wheels.” [Read more…] about A Life of Lancias, Part 2

Techno Classica Show Essen, Germany, 2017

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A year later, Gangloff also penned the body of this Type 57 C. The design has evolved to a more exuberant style, more usually seen on Saoutchik or Figoni creations.

Story and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt

“Techno Classica Essen, the entire classic world under one roof”. This was the motto of the German show now in its 29th edition and held from April 5-9.

The numbers speaks for themselves as the show attracts more than 1,250 exhibitors and 220 clubs and communities of interest, showing more than 2,500 collector cars. Needless to say that two days are a minimum to see the entire exhibition, still at a fast pace. We will therefore concentrate on some specials from France and Italy. [Read more…] about Techno Classica Show Essen, Germany, 2017

VeloceToday for April 11, 2017

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Dutch enthusiast Lucas van Dobben has led a life of Lancias and shares his experiences with us; And How! finds Pegasos in New York; Vince Johnson covers Phillip Island, and we review the latest and perhaps last book on the Alfa TZ-TZ2.

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A Life of Lancias, Part 1

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Lancia racing mechanics with a Flavia on the 1970 Tulip Rally. Lucas is in the middle.

By Pete Vack and Lucas van Dobben

Of all the weird and wonderful marque enthusiasts, Lancisti are among our favorites. They are technically astute, very intelligent, well-spoken and articulate and yet have a burning passion usually reserved for Irish soccer fans. Recently when a reader wanted to know if one of our archived Lancia stories was still available (yes, they are), he attached a photo of his daily transportation in the sixties with his young son in the car. It was an ultra-rare Appia Zagato Sport. Are we on this? You bet. A correspondence began and became the story of one Lucas van Dobben and his life of Lancias.

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A Lancia Sport Zagato for daily transportation, and van Dobben’s son seems to enjoy it too.

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And How! 4-11: Pegaso in New York

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And How! is a new regular feature in VeloceToday, just right for those stories which are too short or too little or news items that don’t qualify as full length articles.

Mystery of the New York Auto Shows

If looks could kill. An unhappy model decorates the Trujillo Pegaso. Photo by Jerry Lehrer.

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Phillip Island Classic, 17-19 March 2017, Australia

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Karanfilovski Alfa Romeo, turn 2.

Story and photos by Vince Johnson

Drivers from the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Belgium, Germany and New Zealand joined the Aussies at the 28th Phillip Island Classic on the weekend before the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix. Attracted by the sweeping island circuit south of Melbourne, they enjoyed three days of racing across nineteen categories.

Following practice and qualifying, the oldest of them all, (car not driver) Alan Telfer’s 1926 Bugatti 37/37B was the most consistent of the forty-one competitors in the first Regularity matched-lap-times event on Friday afternoon. During the weekend, second places were earned by Gerard Knapp’s 1974 Alfa Romeo 1600 GT Junior and Bob Pinkerton’s 1955 Peugeot Belchamp GP. Others to do well were Trevor McPherson’s 3rd in his 1968 Alfa Romeo 1750 GT Veloce, Ernst Luthi’s 4th in his 1971 Alpine Renault A110 and Peter Axford’s 1970 Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato. Richard Longes’ 1927 Bugatti 35B almost matched Telfer’s in the age stakes. [Read more…] about Phillip Island Classic, 17-19 March 2017, Australia

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