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Fred Simeone: Gifts of the Father

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A young Fred Simeone stands next to the 1937 Cord owned by his father Anthony, who inspired him to not only become a great neurosurgeon but an avid car collector. The car is still part of the Simeone collection.

By Pete Vack
Photos courtesy Fred Simeone

Twelve years ago your Editor wrote an article for Automobile Quarterly about the Simeone Foundation Museum, which had just opened. Soon, the Museum will open once again after closing for the Covid-19 pandemic, and we decided to update that article for use in VeloceToday. Below is the our story about Dr. Simeone and his father Anthony, as published in V48 N3 of AQ; the first of several about the Simeone Foundation.

Fred Simeone inherited his father’s acute intelligence and penchant for medicine but also a passion for cars.  “What Dad gave me was more important than money,“ said Simeone.

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The Renault 4CV Part 1: First of a Million

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Renault’s first 1942 prototype (destroyed when the factory was bombed by the allies). ©Renault Communication

Story by John Waterhouse*

The Renault 4CV was a child of World War II. The German army had occupied northern France, including the Renault works at Billancourt on the outskirts of Paris and production continued, under strong pressure to provide vehicles for Germany’s war efforts. [Read more…] about The Renault 4CV Part 1: First of a Million

The Final Splendors of Hampton Court, 2019

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Following display at the Paris Salon this prototype Pegaso, along with two other cars, were presented to General Franco at the Pardo Palace.

Photos by Jonathan Sharp
Information in captions from event catalog

Bet you thought we were done with Hampton Court 2019, but we only gave you Alfa to Ferrari. Here are the rest in all of their splendor. We hope the swans will be return to the next Hampton Court Concours, still scheduled to take place on September 4-6, 2020, and they have lined up a number of very special Alfas for the event.

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Dale Powers’ Fascinating Finds Part 3

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Dale and his very special 4 1/4 sports racing Bentley posed with the motor home that took him and Marcia to vintage events around America.

Story by Eric Davison
Photos courtesy Dale Powers

From the Archives, December 2016

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Vintage racing was an activity ideally perfect for Dale Powers. He joined the SVRA in 1978; his membership is #9. In 1978 vintage racing was a great place for those who had dreams of being Stirling Moss, and magnificent old race cars were available on the cheap.

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Monaco Grand Prix, 1968 in Color

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The beauty that didn’t fly: the Eagle 1G Weslake by Dan Gurney. He qualified 16th and last, 1.32.9, and lasted 9 laps only in the race.

Story and photos by Aldo Zana

If you are suffering from Grand Prix abstinence you might be interested in remembering the Monaco F1 Grand Prix from so many decades ago, now akin to a fictional tale of times bygone. It was May 1968 when France and, later, the whole of Europe, were on the verge of profound social, economic, and cultural changes: students in Paris had started what went into the history books as “La revolte de mai”, the May revolution. The whole country was either on strike or shut down. [Read more…] about Monaco Grand Prix, 1968 in Color

Monaco Grand Prix, 1968 in Black and White

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Pedro Rodriguez, BRM P133, on the final straight iduring his 15th lap of the race. Note how “light” the car appears on the tires. It was a hint of things to come; read on!

By Aldo Zana

We present Aldo Zana’s black and white photography from Monaco 1968.

The Race

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Chuck Daigh Part 4

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Story By Willem Oosthoek

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During the 1961 season Chuck was mostly involved with development work on Scarab’s new aluminum Buick V8 engine, although he raced one of the old Scarab sportsracers twice for new owner George Lehmann in the West Coast series. He retired both at Riverside and Laguna Seca.

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Dale Powers’ Fascinating Finds Part 2

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A friend of Power’s discovered this Maserati 200S at a facility in Tampa where it had been sitting and notified Dale. Reasonable offer made and accepted.

By Eric Davison
Photos courtesy Dale Powers
From the Archives, December, 2016

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During the course of his automotive career Dale Powers has owned so many different great cars that he cannot recall all of them. There were Jaguars, Porsches, half a dozen Ferraris including a Daytona and a 2-litre Testa Rossa, a Kurtis, an HRG, an SS100. It would be hard to find a marque that he did not at one time own and drive. A beautiful Cisitalia cabriolet was his personal chariot for a few happy miles. [Read more…] about Dale Powers’ Fascinating Finds Part 2

An Event Not Covered

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His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent, Grand Cross of the Victorian Order, Patron of the Concours inspects the 1948 Delahaye 175 S Grand Luxe ‘Le Dandy.’

Photos by Jonathan Sharp
Caption information from Event Catalogue

We must explain the reason for all of the recent yet old Hampton Court coverage. Hampton Court Concours took place September 6-8, 2019 and must have been one whopper of an event. Jonathan Sharp was on hand to cover it, the weather was perfect, the cars stunning and the background at Hampton Court easily tops Pebble Beach. Yet at the time, we only ran a select few photos of the special featured Ferraris.

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Chuck Daigh Part 3

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Story by Willem Oosthoek

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Maserati 250F, chassis 2529

Chuck’s next event was also USAC sanctioned, a 3-heat Formula Libre race at Lime Rock in July 1959. Lucky Casner’s CAMORADI team had entered a 1957 Maserati 250F, acquired by Casner from Joakim Bonnier that summer. It was the very car in which Juan Manuel Fangio had won the 1957 German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring, while Bonnier had captured the 1958 Watkins Glen Formula Libre race with it.

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Dale Powers’ Fascinating Finds, Part 1

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1750 Alfa: An early find was this 1750 Alfa that had been brutalized with a hack saw to create cabriolet from a coupe. Powers searched for and finally found the severed top, only to come up a week short as the top had been scrapped before he was able to purchase it.

By Eric Davison
Photos courtesy Dale Powers
From the Archives, December 2016

Those of us who claim age to be an asset will remember a time when a two-year-old Ferrari was just a used up race car that had been superseded by something newer and faster and turned out to pasture. While there were not too many of them (there were not too many Ferraris of any kind in the 50s and early 60s) there were purchasing opportunities for those who had an eye for automotive excitement and were in a position to do something about those opportunities.

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Chuck Daigh Part 2

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Chuck Daigh, voted ‘Fastest U.S. race driver of 1960” by Road & Track, always considered himself a mechanic first and foremost, but invitations to race were welcome. (Bob D’Olivo)

Story by Willem Oosthoek

In Part 1, Daigh had gone from racing for Ford, then to GM, then back to Ford in those days before the major manufacturers pulled out of racing. Then along came Lance…

The second Ford spell did not last long. By September 1957 Daigh was hired away by Lance Reventlow’s organization for the Scarab project. Chuck was a perfect choice; he understood the blueprinting process needed for mechanical work and had experience with the new 327 ci Chevy engines in Atlanta.

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