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By Patricia Lee Yongue
Photos Courtesy of VintageMotorphoto
Guillon, Garfield and Plessier are
rewarded for their efforts.
In May and June of 1925, Renault took the world’s twenty-four hours record at Montlhery, with Ellery Garfield and Robert Plessier at the wheel of the 5500 pound open-bodied car.
[Read more…] about An American (race driver) in Paris, Part II
By Patricia Lee Yongue
Photos by Paul Simms and Patricia Lee Yongue
Classy Chassis Concours, Houston, Texas, June 8, 2008
[Read more…] about Bugattis at Classy Chassis
By Patricia Lee Yongue
Photos Courtesy of VintageMotorphoto unless otherwise noted.
Ellery Garfield in the 1920s.
As a professor of American literature and culture specializing in the Lost Generation expatriates, I am usually on the trail of American writers in Paris. The discovery of another sort of expatriate, one who enriches my knowledge of auto racing history, delighted me. I have, however, been able to ascertain only a few details of the short, hopefully happy life of Ellerv Irving Garfield. [Read more…] about Ellery Garfield and the 100 mph Renault
Wet & Wild at Silverstone
Duke of Kent, Stefano Domenicali and Jackie Stewart
By Erik Nielsen
Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media
If anyone said that F1 has become totally predictable, they’ve obviously never watched a race in the rain before. The only people who think it doesn’t rain plenty in the Midlands live in places like Seattle and Vancouver… [Read more…] about British Grand Prix
By Patricia Yongue
Our scholarly scribe, Patricia Yongue, explains a period of indecision about racing at Renault, while Dale LaFollette
(vintagemotorphoto) provides the period photography.
Renault driver Louis Raffolovitch passes the Allen Kingston car on his way to win the 24 hour race in Morris Park New York, September 1907. Louis Renault was not pleased.
This Fiat Jolly 600 was sold at the Barrett Jackson Auction in 2006 for over $43,000. Photo credit Barrett Jackson.
By Pete Vack
If, like Luigi in the movie CARS, a Fiat Jolly could talk, it would probably tell you, with a good hearty chuckle between each breath, the reason Jollys are so Jolly is that they have increased in value from less than nothing to considerably more than $50,000 in an amazingly short period of time. [Read more…] about Why is the Jolly so Jolly?
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24 Hours of LeMans
The class winning Risi Ferrari 430GT of Salo, Bruni and Melo leads through the midnight hours.
Richard Prince was at this year’s Le Mans and came back with some great images of the Ferraris and Lamborghinis in the GT class. [Read more…] about Ferrari and Lamborghini at LeMans
Ferrari Does it in France
Massa does it.
by Erik C. Nielsen
Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media
If there was significant concern amongst the Ferrari faithful regarding the Scuderia’s performance in Canada, all of that was washed down with a decent red wine in central France during this weekend’s French Grand Prix. [Read more…] about French Grand Prix
Ferrari Racing Days Paul Ricard (May 30th, June 1st 2008)
1954 Maserati 250 F (winner of grid A races).
Photos and Captions by Alessandro Gerelli
This year the event included the Ferrari Challenge (Italy and Europe), the Ferrari Shell Historic Challenge and the F1 Ferrari Clienti program. [Read more…] about Ferrari Racing Days 2008
Story and photos by Brandy Elitch
The CG was made in both coupe and spyder configurations, but this spyder was recently spotted at the Retro show.
The CG was a derivative of the Simca 1000 sedan, a very successful small four-door sedan manufactured from 1961-1978, with 2 million cars sold.
[Read more…] about CG: The Original Anti-Alpine
Photos and captions by Alessandro Gerelli
The harbor area is the broadest part of the track and where there are stands, garages and the pits.
Our Italian correspondent, Alessandro Gerelli, arrived in Monaco a week after the Grand Prix. He found that there was still a great deal of work going on to remove the race barriers and structures after the 2008 Grand Prix of Monaco. [Read more…] about Monaco, the morning after…