On August 24, 1958, Maria Teresa de Filippis, who had broken one of motorsport’s biggest barriers by becoming the first woman to ever compete in Formula One, raced her third event of the year in a Maserati at the Portuguese Grand Prix at Oporto. Though she drove the...
This past week, I went to Disney for the first time. I was down in Orlando for a conference and we turned the trip into our vacation– someplace I’ve never been before. I’ll admit, for someone with a bit of a Disney Universe bias, I had an incredible experience. (And...
Green tech is a buzz word in the automotive industry right now– but as of this week, Volvo decided to take it further than that. Much further. According to a 2012 article on HybridCars.com, the Toyota Prius sold 223, 905 models in the United States. That same...
This might sound a little sacrilegious, but bear with me. Sometimes, long-running car shows are boring. Yeah, I said it. I have a handful of car shows I’ve been attending for literal decades, and I can name what kind of car is going to be in which spot before I even...
WILDWOOD, NJ – It is one hundred degrees in the sun, as vintage hot rods pull up to the starting line for the 2017 Race of Gentlemen event on the beach, but the crowds stretch down the sand dunes and fill the libations tent undeterred by the weather. They shout as...
