Gallery Room 1: Badges and Shields
Yellow horse on a green Ferrari (Misano, 2002).
Ferrari badge on a Ferrari bonnet (Cavallino Classic, 2012).
Alessandro Gerelli’s Ferrari Art Gallery One, Rooms 1 and 2
Adelaide Motorsports Festival, South Australia 2015
Thomas/Christ 1962 Fiat 1500, Gouger Street.
Story and Photos by Vince Johnson
It’s been 30 years since Keke Rosberg won the first Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix held on the streets of Adelaide. To commemorate the anniversary, the Sporting Car Club of South Australia assembled an impressive line-up of F1 cars of the era to headline a 200-strong field of race and road cars for a weekend of sprints in the city’s Victoria Park.
VeloceToday for December 1, 2015
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The Dino 308GT4: Still a Ferrari…
This is not the particular Ferrari discussed below, but a very nice one and similar to the one owned by Mr. Sharp’s good friend. Jonathan Sharp photo.
By Jonathan Sharp
After all, it was a Ferrari and that still leaves a glow on your soul.
A friend of mine used to own a 308GT4. He was a normal working man and he worked every hour he could, so that he could save his money to buy his dream car which had to be a Ferrari. He had all the books and models, went to all the shows with me and Ferrari was about all we talked about. So after many years of saving he finally had enough to full fill his dream.
Peugeot’s Time Machine Museum, Part 1
Jonathan Sharp has returned from a French sojourn where he visited the Peugeot Museum. Part 1 covers the Peugeot from 1889 to 1945, and next week Part 2 will illustrate Peugeot’s cars from 1945 to the present.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
Information from Museum Placards
I imagine that most of us have a visit to the Schlumph collection on their to-do list while in France. If you get an opportunity to tick that item off, I recommend you extended you stay in the area for one more day and make a trip to the town of Sochaux which is only about an hour from Mulhouse.
Fiat’s New 124 Spider as seen by Wallace Wyss
Fiat, Tom Tjaarda and Pininfarina got it right back in 1966 with the 124 Sport Spider. But did the DNA transfer?
By Wallace Wyss
New 2017 Fiat 124 Spider Announced at LA Auto Show: Time will tell if it’s better than the Mazda it sprang from…
Photos courtesy Fiat
Lately I have been straying from cars and messin’ with horses…thoroughbred horses, and the most important thing you can say about a thoroughbred is its pedigree…its DNA.
Now I know carmakers have a burning need to establish identity to pull in new customers but the big fat Fiat badge on the nose is a tad big for my taste, I could live with it being 1/4th smaller, because this one is so big, about the size of an apple, it makes the whole car look smaller.
VeloceToday for November 24, 2015
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Book Review: Alfa Romeo: View from the Mouth of the Dragon
Alfa Romeo: View from the Mouth of the Dragon by S. Scott Callan
A Velocity Group publication
Hardback, leather bound, 369 pages
34 engineering illustrations 30 illustrations of Alfa Romeos,
56 color photographs, and film frames of the races between the wars.
Order via http://www.gearshift.com/library/TheNewBook.html
Price, $395 USD plus shipping
Review by Pete Vack
Take two luxurious leather covers, add a masterful binding and between those physical constraints, one can let the imagination soar. For a book can be many things, free from formal rules, modified to create a theme or idea or concept, a technical dissertation or a work of art or both at the same time. When reviewing a book such as this, one needs to allow the author to capture that promise of imagination. [Read more…] about Book Review: Alfa Romeo: View from the Mouth of the Dragon
As Found Classic Number Eighteen
The response to the Alfa in search of a chassis was so helpful that our French collector sent another mystery Alfa for our readers to solve. Surely someone in Europe or the U.S. might remember this chop job…who would forget this attempt make a sow’s ear out of a silk purse. Here is all we know:
Simon Moore and The Magnificent Monopostos
By Pete Vack
Simon Moore has recently completed his third…and perhaps last…volumes on the pre-war Alfa Romeos.
The Magnificent Monopostos, Alfa Romeo Grand Prix Cars, 1923 to 1951 is now available now from him directly at gpalfabook@gmail.com. ISBN number is 978-0-9820774-2-9 (for two volume set in slip case)
As most everyone knows, his venture into Alfa history began with the incredible book, The Immortal 2.9 which was followed by the The Legendary 2.3. Both were exceptional works, detailing the subject cars and tracing each one, serial number by serial number. Simon’s first book won the coveted Cugnot Award from the Society of Automotive Historians in 1986. The Legendary 2.3 covering the 8C2300 and Monza was awarded the Prix Bellecour in France in 2000. The 2.9 book has since been completely rewritten and a Revised Edition was published in 2008. Both books are still available from Parkside Publications. [Read more…] about Simon Moore and The Magnificent Monopostos
VeloceToday for November 17, 2015
Past and Present Alfa Part 3: Final Details
Photos by David Gooley
Final Details
With the mechanicals completed and the chassis painted, the body sections were installed and final prep began. The location of head lights and taillights were determined, and the modifications made to front and rear fenders. To keep the front-end design as clean as possible, turn signal fixtures were installed in the head light buckets. With the headlight buckets welded in place, weeks of aligning, filling, and sanding followed until a coat of primer could be applied. In this state, devoid of any distracting trim pieces, the virgin bodylines could be evaluated for balance, proportion, and overall conformation.