by Mike – The rock band, Coldplay, is providing the 2016 Super Bowl (American Football) halftime entertainment in Santa Clara, California on February 7. A few years ago I worked down the street from this new football stadium, which was not there at the time. I now live in Carmel about a one and a […]
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by Mike – The Bizzarrini P538 is a mid-engine topless race car with a tubular steel chassis covered by a fiberglass body. This is a stunning car in person, however, it did not have a successful race career. Originally introduced in late 1965 there have been many continuation cars made since the original four (although […]
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by Mike – Giotto Bizzarrini will turn 90 on June 6. Below is a video celebrating some of his creations. Play the video on full screen and turn up the sound. The music does not interrupt the engine sounds. Happy birthday Giotto Bizzarrini! Let us know what you think in the Comments. Get My Car […]
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by Mike – I went to Pebble Beach early today for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. I had to see the Bizzarrini class and the Ford GT40 assembly. The weather was excellent for a car show – overcast, cool and no smoke from the wildfire. Here are some of my photos from the day and […]
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by Wallace Wyss – all photos by Mike Gulett Every man’s Monterey car week is different. I go there not just as an historian and a photographer and fine artist but just because I love cars and these are the best cars I can see in America, (hey, Mike, where’s my ticket for Villa d’Este?) […]
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by Mike – Regular readers of My Car Quest know I am a big fan of all things Bizzarrini and Iso. Look at the top of this page and you will see my former Bizzarrini GT 5300 Strada. This year the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance included a very rare Bizzarrini class where assembled on one […]
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by Wallace Wyss – Way back in the last century, I worked at an ad agency writing ads for Chevys. My superior, Dick Wingersen, owned a Corvette and had it serviced at a place called The Vette Shop. One day Dick tells me “Ya oughta go over to The Vette Shop, they have some weird […]
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by Mike – We recently posted a history summary of the stunning Bizzarrini Manta by ItalDesign. The Bizzarrini Manta was the first car designed by the great car designer, Giorgetto Giugiaro, after he started his own design firm, ItalDesign in 1968. My friends, Ron and Diane Spindler, bought the Manta when it was under restoration […]
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by Mike Gulett – We have different reasons why we like certain car makes and models. We like some cars in a way that we want to own one and we like other cars in a way that we admire the art, the engineering, the shape or maybe the color but have no desire to […]
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by Wallace Wyss – I know there’s still the AutoTrader but my short lived career as a barn finder was built on the original newspaper-style Auto Trader that you could get at any liquor store. My method was to not look like a slickster from The Big Apple though I was actually buying for a […]
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