By Pete Vack
Mark Greene has got a good thing going. After spending the last 20+ years at Griot’s Garage where he helped the founder build up the business from the start, four months ago he started a new website, www.CarsYeah.com. [Read more…] about CarsYeah: Interviews With People You KnowArchives for November 2014
Touring, BMW, Victress: Designs Across Continents
This week we take you to Geoffrey Hacker’s site, Forgotten Fiberglass.com, to review an article we know many of or readers would find interesting. [Ed.]
By Geoffrey Hacker
Designs That Influenced The Styling Of The Victress S1 And Glasspar G2: The 1939/1940 BMW 328 Mille Miglia Roadster
What is the styling heritage of each of the vintage fiberglass cars we are familiar with?
I think this is an important question when trying to understand the place our cars occupy in history – not just in the manner in which they were built but also in the ways each of these cars were styled. [Read more…] about Touring, BMW, Victress: Designs Across Continents
VeloceToday for November 4, 2014
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Instruction Book.
DIAS Public No. 780 10/61 (15.000). Incredible, excellent condition, 14 pages with FOUR fold out wiring diagrams for the Berlina, TI, Spider and Spider Veloce. No water marks, rips or tears; you will NOT find one in better condition! This book covers the rare Berlina, the Berlina TI and the Spider and Spider Veloce for the U.S. market. $400 or best offer. Click here to see details.
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Four issues of Auto Aficionado, the automobile collector’s magazine edited by Larry Crane, including the initial three issues. Only sold together $80 plus $20 postage from France via paypal. Volume 1 No 1 March/April 2005, Volume 1 No 2 May-June 2005, Volume 1 No 3 Sept/Oct 2005, Volume 2 No 1 Jan/Feb 2006. Contact:Grahamgauld@Gmail.com
SOLD!! Alfa 1600 Sprint and Spider Instruction Book. Public no. 838-12/1963 (1500) R. Original, excellent to mint condition; spine is not broken, appears as new. Slight fraying on edge of Electrical diagram where it protrudes from the edge of the book. 80 pages, printed for US market cars. SS instruction book sold for $400; looking for best offer over $300. Click photo to see larger image. 1600 Giulia TI instruction book also available, good condition.
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Three volume classic, “The Grand Prix Car” by Laurence Pomeroy and LJK Setright. 1200+pp The history, theory, design , details and performance of all the important GP cars from the turn of the century through 1966. Hundreds of extraordinary technical drawings, charts, spec tables and racing results. Condition: excellent used, no marks beyond owner name Price $850 plus shipping(weight 12.5 lbs) Contact stevegurr@charter.net
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Maserati at Enzo Ferrari
By Jonathan Sharp
Last winter, VeloceToday correspondent Jonathan Sharp left the British Isles to vacation in Italy and brought back absolutely stunning photo journey through the old Lingotto factory and the new Museo dell’ Automobile in Turin. He has just returned from yet another Italian Interlude, and a visit to the Enzo Ferrari Museum, our first of several features is presented this week. More to follow and CLICK on PHOTOS to ENLARGE! [Read more…] about Maserati at Enzo Ferrari
Ludvigsen Tests the Birdcage
What was it like to drive a Birdcage in 1961? Below, Karl Ludvigsen graphically describes the feel, the noise, and the technique of driving the Magnificent Front Engined Birdcage. This article, originally published in the April 1961 issue of “Car and Driver”, has been republished here with his express permission. Originally published in VeloceToday on November 4 2009.
By Karl Ludvigsen
When you click home the ignition key on the sketchy dash of a Birdcage, a strong red light burns deep within the broad, thumb-sized starter button. To me that light became a symbol of the vast power lurking with this apparently ramshackle piece of machinery, like glowing coals in the crater of a slumbering volcano.
If you’re not already familiar with the Maserati Tipo 61, better known as the Birdcage, be informed by a glance a the accompanying cutaway or at the Tech Report in SCI, April 1960. Its designer, Ing. Alfieri, broke with all the Italian traditions of chassis design and trimmed to a remarkable minimum, a step made possible bit the increasing significance of short, smooth course American races and the decreasing stature of great sports car classics like the Mille Miglia and Tourist Trophy. Only the Targa Florio remains to separate the Birdcages and Lotus Nineteens from real road going automobiles. [Read more…] about Ludvigsen Tests the Birdcage
Maserati 250F In Focus
By Pete Vack
Maserati 250F In Focus
By Anthony Pritchard
10 x10, 224 pages, 192 color and B&W photos
£60 UK, $95 USD, $105 CAN
Veloce Publishing Limited, UK, 2014
ISBN 978-1-845845-63-6
Order from www.veloce.co.uk
Review by Pete Vack
Anthony Pritchard’s name should ring a bell with most Maserati enthusiasts for he authored the first comprehensive history of Maserati, published in 1976. Comparable to the Merritt/Fitzgerald Ferrari in 1968 and the 1964 Hull/Slater Alfa Romeo, Maserati: A History, was a watershed work and most remarkably, still a valuable resource over 38 years later.
Along with Denis Jenkinson’s early work on the history of the 250F chassis numbers, first seen in The Maserati 250F: A Classic Grand Prix Car in 1975, Pritchard was one of the first to list all the 250F chassis numbers, something Ferrari historians were also attempting to do with the Maranello marque. Both Jenkinson and Pritchard, however, were often led astray by the factory’s use and re-use of chassis numbers. As time went by and more research revealed new facts about the cars, the old histories needed updating. Among the most recent to try to correct dated S/N information were David McKinney and Barry Hobkirk (McKinney published with The Maserati 250F in 2003). [Read more…] about Maserati 250F In Focus