Illustration of the transition of Concours from carriages to automobiles: at left is a seven-window Dress Coach used on the occasion of the wedding of Napoleon III to Eugenie de Montijo on January 29, 1853, at right a 1937 Delage D8 Letourneur et Marchand Aerodynamic...
Part 1 presented the circumstances concerning the development of the very creative marketing stunt developed by Sunoco in 1935 to promote a new gasoline. The highly unusual nature of this event required that the major players involved possess equally unusual...
Automobiles and airplanes began to develop in parallel starting in the early 20th century, spawning numerous instances in which their respective technologies or products came into direct contact with each other. In some cases, these encounters contributed to the...
Today we honor those who greatly influenced the automotive industry that we lost in 2022. Kevin Kalkhoven, winning car owner for the 2013 Indianapolis 500 and a key figure in the CART/Champ Car series in the early 2000s. A venture capitalist of considerable wealth,...
We watched Al Unser, Jr., in his Indy 500 debut. We watched him win his first, and his second Indy 500s. We watched him give a thumbs up to Emerson Fittipaldi when they crashed while battling for Indianapolis victory. We heard him as he said, “You just don’t know...
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and Monterey Car Week 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance program cover In the automotive world, terms with French origins are not as prevalent as in other fields, notably aviation, where fuselage, empennage, aileron, and others...
