Is it “vibrant pink” or magenta?
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A Pontiac Solstice at a Mazda dealer? Makes you wonder if somebody traded it in on a Miata.
To illustrate how far out in the country Watkins Glen was, the main hotel in the area where the F1 (Oct.) and Sportscar/CanAm (July) establishment would stay during race weekends was the Glen Motor Inn, which is basically a modest, old-school 1950's-1960's motel. Baby boomers (and others) will recall staying in modest…
Lotus did commemorative editions of the Europa and Esprit back in the 1970's in sponsors’ liveries. There was a GLTL Europa to commemorate Rindt’s 1970 championship and a JPS version to commemorate Fittipaldi’s WDC in 1972.
The Pierre Cardin Special Edition AMC Javelin from 1972.
Yes, the best thing about the Essex sponsorship was that the racecars, and the limited-edition Esprit looked really cool in that livery.
Six million American-made BMWs and not one of them is a manual-transmission sports sedan.
Elizabeth - No history of sketchy, fraudulent sponsors in F1 is complete without Essex Petroleum and its founder, David Thieme.
Actually, a semester of high-school or college German would teach you how to pronounce German brand names, as well as actual German language sentences! But nobody in America bothers to learn foreign languages, and most of them won’t care.
The 1974 Matador Coupe was actually pretty sleek and racy-looking compared with the boxy, formal-roofline malaise-era cars it raced against in NASCAR (ahem, Monte Carlo and Mercury Montego).
I’ll give my usual answer to this question: the 1962 Dodge Dart. It looks like the committee that designed the grill never met with the committee that designed the fenders.
That’s the right color for a late 1960's Roadrunner
Honda USA is really incompetent these days. They have extended production cutbacks or closures due to the standard “supply chain issues”, it’s impossible to find the new Civic anywhere without markups.
1st Generation Ford Mustang: Simple 1960's mechanicals. LOTs of reproduction and performance upgrade parts are available, I think you can build an entire car out of spares if you wanted to spend the money. Much loved, and not just by baby-boomers, so you can sell it easily if you want to move on or you’re in too deep…
It’s worth noting that the modern starting procedure for F1 races, where the entire field has to come to a full stop all the way to the back of the grid, grew out of Peterson’s fatal crash.
In the current market, the stated MSRP is fictional. *IF* you can find one, they’ll have massive markups tacked on. Even if a dealer is selling them for MSRP, you’ll get a response like “Our allocation is already pre-sold”, or some such.
I can recall reading somewhere that Lotus used gold leaf for the lettering & numbers on the JPS black & gold liveried cars in the early years of the JPS sponsorship years in the 1970's, but later switched to something cheaper (either gold-colored paint or Mylar?). Gold prices escalated rapidly during the inflation of…
As long as dealerships have enough political influence in state & local governments to keep franchise laws on the books, we’ll continue to have the dealers as middle men.
My favorite book about racing is “Racing in the Rain” by John Horsman, who was chief engineer for the John Wyer Gulf team in the 1960's- 1970's, when they won LeMans 3 times. (NOT to be confused with “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, mentioned elsewhere in this thread.) He was chief engineer for Wyer when they raced…