To: Howard Goldman From: Harry Newton Subject: British Cars in the Mille Miglia… and a bit more! Dear Howard: Before we left in May for Europe, you asked us for a report on some of the more interesting Mille Miglia entrants. We got that and a lot more. For example, in the Inter-Europa Cup historic races…
The year was 1950. A fledgling auto salesman, I commuted from Westchester County to my job in Manhattan at the wheel of my first sports car, a medium green, right hand drive MG TD. Like a first serious romance, that car always has occupied a special place in my memory. Not only was the car…
“To all the cars I’ve loved before, that wandered in and out my door, I’m glad they came along and I dedicate this column to all the cars I’ve loved before…” 1956 was the year that I really and truly got hooked on motor sport, I mean all aspects. Rallying, Hill Climbs, Mud Plugs, Ice Racing, (Rubber to…
Back in 1949 we were living in a suburb of Chicago, however I frequently went to New York city on business. Our family car was a Crosley sedan-yes that’s right- tin and cardboard with a brazed steel engine! We were however looking for a better car and eyed Singers, Morris’s, Morgans, Hillmans, Sunbeams, and of course…
Like most men, I have been an automobile freak since I was a small child. Now that I’m a big child, I own a sports car that I’m in the process of restoring. Two short summers ago, I tackled an engine rebuild with the assistance of my daughter Lisa, who was three at the time….
How can it possibly be 25 years since I acquired my first Sprite? How could I have gotten so old and still be adolescent enough to drive a Sprite to work every day? I say adolescent because of all the British sports cars, I feel that no other has the youthful exuberance of the Sprite,…
OR ‘How I Learned to love the ground clearance of my Austin-Healey exhaust.’ The Hurst shifter and radar detector cord dangling from the sun visor should have been a dead give away. Larry was considered a novice by the Northern Ohio Valley SCCA and as such was entitled to a get-acquainted run through the autocross course, with an experienced driver before the…
By the mid-1950s, the MG and Jaguar nameplates already were well established in the United States market… synonymous with the term, sports car. But, you knew that already. Two additional nameplates appeared toward the middle of that decade in a quest for sales in a market just above the entry level MG and below the…
Well, here we go, heading into the Summer, and what a relief it must be for those of you who have suffered through one of the worst winters on record, especially in the Eastern half of the nation. We knew you must have had enough of it, when customers started asking what the weather was…
Tracy Drummond fell in love with British cars at age eight while riding his bicycle. He came across a British car show in the Glenwood Springs, Colorado, high school parking lot and was mesmerized. “They were so different from American cars,” says Drummond. “They had a different sound and smell, wire wheels and tonneau covers…
