Ted Christopher and I first met in 1994, by which time he had already established himself as a championship-caliber racing driver, and I last spoke with him earlier this year. We were not friends, but we enjoyed a cordial relationship, he in his role as driver, and I...
Everyone has at least one colorful story about an experience in a car dealership. Why: because the car buying process is unlike anything else in the retail world. It’s a wacky setting to do business. Thankfully, car buying as a whole has become a lot less painful....
In 2015, a gentleman by the name of Mike Trio watched “Rush,” the Ron Howard film about the rivalry between Formula One greats Niki Lauda and James Hunt. Not long thereafter, Mr. Trio, in his role as City Manager for the town of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, walked...
Following last year’s Vintage Indycar Celebration at Pocono, presented by the Classic Racing Times, we wrote about the cars driven by Parnelli Jones and Eddie Sachs in the 1963 Indy 500, cars which were reunited on the track last year and which reminded us of the...
Okay, I’m not going to say that it’s more difficult to get my hands on a copy of the 1988 film, Tucker: The Man and His Dream than it is to get my hands on a real Tucker, but it’s pretty damn close. The technology-savvy partner and I scoured the Internet, looking even...
MAHWAH, New Jersey – Six years ago, everyone in the New Jersey car show hobby thought Dead Man’s Curve had lost their collective minds. Here was an organization, albeit with a history of successful car shows, that thought to challenge the long-standing,...
