Stephen Cox blogs about what Luca Filippi means for open-wheel racing.
Perhaps I'm the lone voice in the wilderness on this, but I was very impressed with Luca Filippi's IndyCar debut at Mid-Ohio last week. He was fantastic in qualifying. Had he not been penalized, Filippi could have had a starting spot in the first three rows; been a genuine threat on race day.
He ran a conservative, nearly mistake-free race and moved from dead last to as high as 11th during the event. Nearly all of his p...
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Month: August 2013
’53 FORD SEDAN DELIVERY: 302-INCH REST-MOD HAULER!
Stephen Stanley blogs about transplanting a V-8 powertrain and bringing his beast of burden back from the dead.
I purchased my ‘53 Ford Sedan Delivery in 1984 from the original owner, who had used it to deliver tea in San Francisco. The cost: $750.00. This was a heater-delete model powered by a Six, three- speed column shift, no clock, no radio and only one sun visor. A basic model that was popular with fleet managers and tradesmen. A far cry from the way it looks and runs today.
For the c...
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MID-OHIO HONDA 200: SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!
Lexington, OH’s Mid-Ohio treats fans to a weekend of wheel-to-wheel racing, covering eight different series from open-wheel IndyCar to tin-top door slammers!
Sunday’s GTS winner was Lawson Aschenbach, Jupiter, FL in the Black Dog Speed Shop Camaro. Here he is dropping downhill in Turn 12, the “Carousel”. This reminds me of the old Trans-Am series where cars you saw on the street everyday ran bumper-to-bumper. If you aren’t familiar with the Pirelli World Challenge, you may want to ch...
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JAGUAR LAND ROVER: HIGH PERFORMANCE @ PEBBLE!
Concepts, racecars, sports cars, and consumer drives of latest production vehicles, highlight its Pebble program.
In addition to its full product line, Jaguar Land Rover will debut its Jaguar Project 7 concept car, above, its first showing in North America. The all-aluminum-bodied roadster, based on the ‘14 F-TYPE and featuring a Jaguar D-Type inspired fairing and a single-seat cockpit, was revealed at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Land Rover will feature, for the first time at Pebble Beac...
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’61 PLYMOUTH FURY: MAYFLOWER MAKEOVER!
Consummate hot rodder Dave Wallace, Jr. blogs about an 80,000-mile Survivor brought back to life by a do-it-yourselfer who has been watching it since 1981!
Dave Wallace usually writes about ferocious fuelers and kick-ass hot rods, but when he met up with hands-on car guy Scott Edwards and his ’61 Fury, he was impressed. They bonded almost immediately as Dave’s driver is a 70,000-mile ’61 Belvedere and both Plymouths were in the same place at the same time! Unlike Scott’s 360 V8-powered Fury,...
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McLAREN 12C SPIDER: DROP-TOP ROCKET!
Dan Scanlan samples the latest sophisticated Supercar from McLaren.
And, he wants one!
New Zealander Bruce McLaren began building open-wheel racecars in 1964, his M1A such a winner that he built 24 for others. His company's tradition of building championship-winning machines - F1 cars as well as Can-Am, Formula 5000 and Formula 2 and 3 and Indy - continued after his death in 1970. They proudly flew the Bruce McLaren Motor Racing orange livery. High-performance street cars were...
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’70 PLYMOUTH SUPERBIRD: VITAMIN C!
Ron Charity’s Dad bought this winged Road Runner Superbird new and
it’s still in the family!
The story of Ron Charity’s ‘70 Plymouth began in August 1969, when the 440 four-speed Superbird rolled off the line at Chrysler’s Hamtramck plant in Michigan for delivery to Sorenson’s Plymouth/Dodge in Toronto, Canada. Ron and his Dad were going car shopping, driving a small-block ‘67 Chevelle 327 on Sheppard Avenue. Their first stop was Hudson’s Chevrolet to check out an orange ‘70 Pontiac GT...
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