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Arutunoff on the Mille Miglia Part 2

February 7, 2017 By pete

At the 1988 Mille Miglia with a 1951 Cooper MG.

Part 2 of the Excerpt from Steering with your Knees by Anatoly Arutunoff
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By Toly Arutunoff

We overnighted in Rome at the midpoint of the event, and my timing was such that while Karen was smart enough to grab a Coke and head straight for bed, I hit the lobby at the exact time another dining room was opened up to accept the overflow of competitors from the main room. Chicken, veal, pasta, pasta, antipasto, wine, beer — it was all there, fresh, and as much as you could choke down if you weren’t too tired to swallow. [Read more…] about Arutunoff on the Mille Miglia Part 2

Arutunoff on the Mille Miglia

January 31, 2017 By pete

At the 2005 edition of the Mille Miglia retro, Toly is seen here with Sandy Orttewell in Orttwell’s totally original 1928 1500S Alfa.

An Excerpt from Steering with your Knees by Anatoly Arutunoff published with permission of the author.

By Toly Arutunoff

It’s difficult to know what to say about the Historic Mille Miglia … it’s been covered by all the enthusiast press in articles of varying lengths, and since I subscribe to most of them I’m mildly saturated … I guess I just don’t want to simply rehash, from my personal point of view, all the things you might’ve read elsewhere. Now that that’s outta the way, let me say that the event taken as a whole is inspiring and enthusiastically stimulating to an American; more so I think than it is to a European.

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