VeloceToday.com

The Online Magazine for Italian and French Classic Car Enthusiasts

Find VeloceToday’s Hidden Treasures

By

How to Find Great Articles on Your Favorite Subject

Finding the hidden car is often easy. Finding the article, well, read on.

Over the past nine years (VeloceToday is beginning our tenth year of continuous weekly publication) we have posted almost 1200 feature articles on cars, events, people, news, and lifestyles. Looking for these archived treasures—and finding them—is not always easy, but can be if you know what buttons to press.

There are over 483 articles in the VeloceToday archives published just since February of 2008 alone (in WordPress) and 690 between 2002 and 2007. This article will help you find what you’re looking for or just make it easier to browse through the archives. After they appear on the homepage for generally two weeks, each article is then placed in the archives. If you missed VT for a week or two, or if you are new to VT, you won’t be aware of articles which may be of interest to you, now hidden in the archives, not to mention the thousands of photos also resident within those articles. [Read more…] about Find VeloceToday’s Hidden Treasures

This Week, of Interest

By

Do you know the way to Monterey? Or are you on vacation in Europe? Either way, we here at VeloceToday are still we here at VeloceToday. And this week the July Goodwood Festival is featured, thanks to a new correspondent by the name of Robert Neary. We hope to bring you more of his work in the near future. Carl Goodwin’s work on racing the Alfa Giulietta in America first published in 2007 was so good we thought it was time for a mid-summer rerun.

Dan Schaefer out in Minneapolis would like you to contact him if interested in attending their yearly event. He’s at 612 385 3111 or Dan@wheelsofitaly.com.

The now twice-a-year contribution drive is over but we’ll continue to remind you to send in what you can when you can. We thank all those who have contributed so far and their dollars have ensured that VeloceToday will continue to be here for all of you.

To wit: Please take the time to contribute and keep VeloceToday coming to your inbox every week. It’s easy and safe. Simply click here for details.

Alfas Star at Goodwood, July 2-4, 2010

By

Remarkable Alfa scultpure at Goodwood.

Story and photos by Robert Neary

With a theme of VIVA VELOCE and a celebration of 100 years of Alfa Romeo, this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed was a truly wonderful event for the Italian car enthusiast. [Read more…] about Alfas Star at Goodwood, July 2-4, 2010

Racing the Alfa Giulietta in America Part I

By

There's carbon on this sparkplug, the Alfa lady seems to be saying. Dunkirk 1958. Photo: Alix Lafontant.

By Carl Goodwin

A slow beginning
The Alfa Giulietta did not come on the sports car scene as Porsche did, with dramatic wins and startling performance. Instead, it kind of slid into the U.S. market, and began to race two years after its introduction in Italy. [Read more…] about Racing the Alfa Giulietta in America Part I

Racing the Alfa Giulietta in America Part II

By

Following close: Detroit's Harry Constant in Alfa #84 is hounded by Chuck Stoddard in the #25 Alfa, with the rest of the Put-in-Bay field in the distance. Photo: Joe Brown

By Carl Goodwin

Stoddard Racing
Chuck Stoddard won national SCCA championships in 1959, 1961 and 1965 in Alfas. “The Giulietta didn’t get interesting,” he says, “until the Veloce was introduced. Bob Grossman was one of the first to run one. Max Hoffman was behind it – he pitted Porsche against Alfa. He would go to Porsche and tell them ‘The Speedsters are nice but the Giulietta is nicer.’ [Read more…] about Racing the Alfa Giulietta in America Part II

T57S Bugatti Atlantic Reappears at Pebble Beach

By

Madam Holtzschuch poses with the T57S in its first iteration at the Juan de Pins Concours on Cap d'Antibes in 1937. Credit: Pierre-Yves Laugier Collection.

By Michael T. Lynch

Much of the breathless reportage in the business and popular press of the recent sale of a Type 57SC Bugatti Atlantic focused on its price and the supposed fact that there were only two — some said three — Atlantics built.

There were actually four cars.  [Read more…] about T57S Bugatti Atlantic Reappears at Pebble Beach

The Allante: Ultimate Italian Cadillac

By

Jet black is one of the colors that make an old Allante look new.

By Wallace A. Wyss
Captions by Wyss
All photos courtesy of
Norman Penfield, President Allante Atlanta Car Club

Like a lot of other trends in the auto industry, it started with all good intentions—the creation of an American car with the added glitz of Italian styling and coachwork.

I speak of the Cadillac Allante. The Allante has a name which Cadillac picked out of the air. It is not an Italian word like Avanti was for the Studebaker Avanti (which means “forward” in Italian.) I always thought it sort of hinted at the mythical undersea town of Atlantis. But the car, like the fabled city , sunk beneath the waves….

The two-seater was in production from 1987 through 1993.

Cadillac had seen the success of the Mercedes 450SL (introduced as the 350SL in 1971) and the Jaguar XJS and hungered for their own two seater sporty car. I say “sporty” not “sports.” There’s a difference.
[Read more…] about The Allante: Ultimate Italian Cadillac

Hungarian Grand Prix

By

Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber

Webber on Top
Schumi on Bottom

By Erik Nielsen
Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media

There is an old lesson in racing that you don’t necessarily need to be the fastest car out there to win, you just need to be the first to cross the finish line.  Mark Webber drew a line under that statement with his uneventful win at the Hungaroring.  It really wasn’t his race to win, but it was his team mate Vettel’s to lose.  And lose he did. The young German seemed to have the race in the bag with a strong pole performance and outstanding opening laps.   [Read more…] about Hungarian Grand Prix

French at Le Mans by Vanhoolandt

By

Still looking for the Pink Panther.

Last week Hugues Vanhoolandt displayed the Italian effort at this year’s Le Mans Classic, which everyone is saying gets better and better every year. For the 5th time, Le Mans Classic celebrated the greatest long distance race in the world. With more than 420 cars on the track, ranging from 1923 to 1979, it was close action from Saturday at 4 pm to Sunday same hour.With 96,000 spectators, Le Mans Classic proved to be one of the world’s greatest historic racing car event.

Photos and captions by Hugues Vanhoolandt.
[Read more…] about French at Le Mans by Vanhoolandt

In the Alpes Maritimes with an Alpine-Renault

By

The Alpine overlooking the Riviera. Photo by RentaCarClassic.

We last engaged Skip Cook as Philippe Defechereux described the Deutsch-Bonnet at Sebring, and Cook’s adventures running a DB coupe at the Le Mans Classic. Cook recently returned to France to drive an Alpine Renault in the California Classic Rallye event, this year held in the French Riviera. Below is his report.

PARTICIPANT’S DIARY
By Skip Cook
Photos by the author unless otherwise noted

The California Classic Rallye has been held for many years throughout California, but in the last two years has expanded its reach to Europe, first in Tuscany in 2009, and this year in the French Riviera. [Read more…] about In the Alpes Maritimes with an Alpine-Renault

German Grand Prix

By

Alonso and Massa on the podium: anything but a joyful pair

Ferrari Win/Lose
by Philippe Defechereux
Photos courtesy and copyright Planet F1

During Friday’s qualifying practice at Hockenheim, as well as Saturday’s qualifying, Ferrari dominated the pack for the first time since… the 2010 season’s first Grand Prix in Bahrain.   [Read more…] about German Grand Prix

MENU