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Larry Crane

Peter Mullin Automotive Museum: Bugatti Before the Cars

April 27, 2010

Larry Crane takes us on an exclusive tour of the furniture of Carlo Bugatti.
Photos by author except as noted.
Peter Mullin is a gifted artist, at least equal to his talents as a businessman. In spite of his new museum’s name, he wants the public home of his collections to be seen as an art museum, [...]

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A Car Life by Larry Crane

September 23, 2009

A Zagato in the closet

Bill Henry called me at Automech. We met a couple of weeks earlier during a Riverside SCCA weekend. He had stopped by the shop and admired my bright turquoise Mini, with the ivory stripe to match its wheels. Now he was proposing a trade. An even trade for pinks.

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A Car Life, by Larry Crane

June 16, 2009

Following Le Mans veteran Oliver Mathai, in the Aston Martin DBS, through the Ford chicanes in Aston’s 2009 V8 Vantage.

Aston Martin’s latest V8 Vantage benefits from 80 years of development for the 24 Hours of Le Man and we chase its history on the storied circuitton
Photos by Nick Dimbleby, Pete Robain and Ian Dawson
Cornering [...]

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A Car Life, by Larry Crane

June 10, 2009

Tracy (the only blonde in the picture) finds a bleacher seat to share with the locals to watch the Mille Miglia.

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Bob Tullius and I were pushing the D-type slowly toward the starting ramp. Light, misty rain had been continuous since nightfall. The umbrella covered the driver’s seat but Mark Miller’s navigator perch [...]

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A Car Life, by Larry Crane

June 4, 2009

Chasing the bikes, we had no idea our direction from Salisbury and did not note the names of the tiny villages en route. This was simply a picturesque shot with an audience of one.

Italophiles in the Emerald Isles Too.
“Like old bikes?” Spoken in a thick brogue by an old gentleman in a well-worn tweed jacket [...]

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A Car Life, by Larry Crane

May 27, 2009

Rounding Creg-ny-Baa en route to famous Kate’s Cottage (in reverse direction from the TT) with the roar of 16 tiny Bugatti cylinders. During the Manx TT super bikes round the Cottage corner with knee-down and descend this hill at 160 mph+.

Italophiles in the Emerald Isles
This is the Cranes we’re talking about here. When we did [...]

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A Car Life, by Larry Crane

May 19, 2009

DRIVING BUGS

The Veyron, above is a modern interpretation of a pur sang Bugatti. The EB 110 below, while a brilliant engineering exercise, is not; all that went into Artioli’s factory.

EB 110
An Italian Interpretation
It’s clean and comfortable in here. The engine idles so smoothly it’s hard to know if [...]

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A Car Life, by Larry Crane

May 6, 2009

Pro Drive

The Ferrari forecourt from reception.
The iron gate is in the distance. Could
that be the famous Crane Lancia B20,
right there in Maranello? A ride in a new
Testarossa awaits our Senior Editor.

The acrid smell of vaporized rubber wafted into the cockpit. Through its pale haze we watched the red Testarossa just ahead of us perform [...]

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