A Strange Concours Coincidence – Or Is It?
by Mike - In the article yesterday, Classic Car Prices, Market Trends And Events, I used this photo below, just sent to me by Bruce Caron from Palos Verdes, of a Bugatti as an example of a car that a...
View ArticleConcorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este 2013 – A Photo Overview
by Mike I met Zoltan Papp in Italy this past April. He is a photographer of, and writer about, classic cars. Zoltan lives in Hungary and he traveled back to Italy for the recent Concorso d'Eleganza...
View ArticleA Few Photos From Pebble Beach
by Mike - I arrived at Pebble Beach at 7:00AM today and left around noon. After a light lunch in Carmel I drove home in the Iso Grifo.
View ArticlePhotos From The 2013 The Quail, A Motor Sport Gathering
by Mike - We all can't go to all the great events around the world. Here are some photos from an event you may have missed last year. My thanks to Geoffrey Horton for sending these photos from the The...
View ArticlePhotos From The 2013 The Quail, A Motor Sport Gathering
by Mike – We all can’t go to all the great events around the world. Here are some photos from an event you may have missed last year. My thanks to Geoffrey Horton for sending these photos from the The...
View ArticleAutomotive Marketing: Bugatti’s Forgotten Prototype and The Case for Bringing...
by Wallace Wyss – At a recent unveiling of a Bugatti special edition at the Quail, of yet another two seater mid-engined car, I saw the crowd was ten deep but I wonder if Bugatti has saturated the...
View ArticleThink Big – Thought Ettore Bugatti
So he did – but his timing was off… by Wallace Wyss – In retrospect, I gotta hand it to ol’ Ettore Bugatti, the car builder, because not only did he build cars that ended up winning 1000 races, but...
View ArticleA “Primitif” Love For “Streamline Moderne”
by Wallace Wyss – I can’t say when it was when I fell in love with “streamline moderne.” Maybe it was when my parents bought an Electrolux vacuum cleaner in the early ‘50s and I enjoyed its streamline...
View ArticleConcorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este 2013 – A Photo Overview
With the many car events canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic we will not see the car action we are accustomed to at this time of year. I thought it would be a good idea to reach back into the My...
View ArticleThe End of the Malibu Car Show? – I Do Not Think So
On August 26 I received an email from the City of Malibu (with a copy to Wallace Wyss and someone at the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department). The email summary, The car event that is advertised and was...
View ArticleShould Clone Cars be Allowed?
A philosophical question… by Wallace Wyss – Of course they are here, they are called replicas or continuations. Many are not exactly clones. I think they’ve been around as long as cars have been...
View Article1937 Bugatti Type 57 Cabriolet at Auction by RM Sotheby’s
by Mike Gulett – I generally do not lust over pre-war cars – but this Bugatti Type 57 is one exception. While I was previewing the RM Sotheby’s auction during Monterey Car Week I noticed this...
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