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Review by Pete Vack
More than ten years ago, S. Scott Callan published his massive, expensive, leather-bound Alfa opus, Alfa Romeo: View from the Mouth of the Dragon, 1900-1940 which in turn was derived from a CD ROM. Now, an expanded and more affordable softback edition (at only $125) is available. [Read more…] about Alfa Romeo: View from the Mouth of the Dragon Softbound Edition
Photo courtesy MAUTO
Story by Pete Vack
Dale LaFollette, photographer, collector, car genius and fortunately for us, a decent chap, recently came upon a photo that he wanted to share. How many people might be interested in a tulipwood Hispano on the Targa Florio he didn’t know but the picture was great. [Read more…] about Mahogony Alfa Romeo RLSS Mystery Car
This photo was taken when I was in Milan in 1987. I was invited out to the museum at Arese. It was winter, November, and not open to the public. They unlocked the museum for us and had a cleaning lady follow us around, turning lights in the galleys on and off as we walked from gallery to gallery, which is why the lighting is so bright up front and dark in the background. Needless to say this was not a formal photo shoot by any means, and was hard to get a good focus, but it is a rather evocative shot. And yes, we climbed in and out of most of the cars!
By S.Scott Callan
While we at VeloceToday were setting up two articles concerning the Merosi Alfa Romeo RLSS, we thought it might be nice if S.Scott Callan would allow us to use his remarkable researched and animated article on the RLSS from his website, www.velocitygroup.net. To learn more about Scott’s fascinating site, click here to read the accompanying piece.
Merosi’s Masterpiece: the Romeo series L The advancements being incorporated into the car Merosi and his team were engineering when the G1 was released signaled the end of brass era engineering principles and the beginning of a new era of automotive design.
“I took this shot at my desk to portray the elements behind creating the website. Decades of event Media passes, a story in mid-edit, kind of a visual bibliography of books and old magazines. Yes, those are Road & Tracks, Sports Car Graphics, etc. from the early 1960s stacked on the shelves. The image on the screen is from when Fabrizio (Giugiaro) invited me to road test the Nazca and Scighera at Monterey.”… S.Scott Callan.
By Pete Vack
We felt that the quite unusual graphic description of Scott’s Alfa RL article deserved further discussion, which is clearly addressed through the complexity of automotive subject coverage on his web site.
I became aware of the scope of Scott’s website when I asked him to contribute to the Fred Wacker Gordini story. To show the range of the material he had, he linked me to his interview with Fred. [Read more…] about Velocity Group Website Review
