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Featured Car: 1923 RLTF Alfa Romeo.
Story and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
Merosi's Finest Hour was achieved with the Alfa Romeo RLTF of 1923.
Amilcars are rare, coupes even rarer. But from 1921 to 1939 Charles Duval bodied a great number of Amilcars and was particularly noted for his charming coupes, this one on a 1926 CGSS.
John Surtees, age 74, Goodwood, September 17th, 2010
Photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt taken at the Goodwood Revival, 2010
This year Goodwood celebrated the life and career of John Surtees. Born in 1934, his racing career spanned 22 years from 1950 to 1972, winning world championship driving titles for MV Agusta four times and once for Ferrari in 1964, then going off on his own to create a series of Formula cars which met with mixed success. Few have experienced a more varied and successful life in motorsports than John Surtees.
In an exclusive interview granted in 2001 with VeloceToday Editor Pete Vack, the only Champion on two wheels and four tells it like it was…
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A serious side of Goodwood is the study of historically accurate costumes that reflect the fifties and sixties.
The Girls, the Background, the Cars of Goodwood in that order
Photography by Hugues Vanhoolandt
August 15th 2010. Hugues Vanhoolandt catches the Bug at Laguna.
By Werner Pfister
Is the new Bugatti fast enough to be at two places at the same time?
On August 15, at the Pebble Beach Concours, Bugatti debuted a new model of their very successful Veyron which had been developed in secret over the past year. [Read more…] about Record Breaking Doppelganger?
Sandy Leith pushing hard with his 1931 Type 37. Leith, who is the Registrar of the American Bugatti Club, tell us about his car: My car was the second-to-last T37 built. It was bought by a New York banker on vacation, Elgood Lufkin, in Paris who brought it home with him. After one or two more owners and an engine blow-up in early ARCA competition, it received the 4-cylinder, Ford B engine in 1935 and raced as the 'Scrambling Egg' Bugatti-Ford special with the ARCA until 1940 when it disappeared. I found it in 1995 and have kept it, essentially, as found.
Photos and Captions by Hugues Vanhoolandt
The best of the bugs from Monterey.
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.
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Fantastic imagery from our man Hugues Vanhoolandt at the LeMans Classic, July 9-11th 2010. Next week the French–
Argentine Luis Perez Companc trying hard with the 330 TRI spider Fantuzzi that won the 1962 edition with Phil Hill and Gendebien.
Photos and Captions by Hugues Vanhoolandt
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The Pre 1975 F1 GP cars race was the occasion to see a squadron of Tecno F1 cars, this one, a PA123 of 1972, owned and driven by ‘Nanni’ Galli himself who drove that car in period.
Story and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
For the 7th time, Monaco held the Historic Grand Prix on May 1st and 2nd. This author has been to almost every major vintage race event in the world, and believes that the Monaco Historic Grand Prix is an absolute must for every motosports fan. There are eight races, ranging from 1929 to 1984, and nowhere else can you be so close to the action. Surely more fun than the actual Grand Prix which takes place two weeks later. And the photos, please: [Read more…] about 7th Monte Carlo Historic Grand Prix