“An earth-shaker from Great Britain” is how the influential writer Ken Purdy described the original Jaguar XK-E, a car stunning in looks and performance when it made its debut on March 21, 1961, and a car that remains stunning in looks and performance to this day. How...
On February 28, 1940, Mario Andretti and his twin brother, Aldo, were born in Montona, a town on the peninsula of Istria which at the time was a part of Italy. We mention Aldo because, while today Mario is known worldwide as a championship-winning racing driver, few...
During a visit to St. Petersburg, FL in early February we made an all-too-brief side trip to the Tampa Bay Auto Museum in the northern suburb of Pinellas Park. This amazing facility was opened in 2005 by Mr. Alain Cerf, the founder of privately-owned PolyPack, a...
Greetings fellow car enthusiasts. I’m very excited for this opportunity to work with Car Show Safari! My name is Chris, and I’m from Waltham Massachusetts. I currently work in the auto industry in car sales. I may be stating the obvious, but I am a die-hard car...
On February 7, 1958, the Dutch truck manufacturer DAF introduced its first passenger car, the DAF 600, in Amsterdam. Groundbreaking in neither size nor appearance, the car is remembered for having a continuously variable transmission. The “Variomatic” transmission...
It’s really This Month in Motorhead History, because two events in the month of December converged to have a lasting effect on the history of the automobile. It began 215 years ago, on December 29, 1800, in New Haven, Connecticut, when Charles Goodyear was born. ...
