This particular GTO (5111) was also owned by Henry Manney III, Road & Track's European correspondent. He bought it back in the late sixties, I think, and drove it for a number of years. I seem to recall that he paid considerably less than ten grand for it, as it was simply a "used-up race car" of little practical…

You're right... Henry Ford was a little too cozy with the Nazis leading up to the German's declaration of war and it wasn't just to protect his business interests. He did admit to admiring Hitler, but, how much, he was careful not to say. There's little doubt that Henry Ford was an anti-semite, and he wasn't shy about…

If you dig a little deeper, I think you will find that when Germany declared war on the US in December 1941, they confiscated all American owned companies. The big Ford plant in Cologne was one of them and was run by the Nazis during the war and probably did produce war material for the German army. It was not under…

Another track that has been almost forgotten is Autodrome Terramar near Sitges, Spain. It's extreme banking is like a Velodrome for cars. Truly amazing. It was abandoned after only a few races were held in the Twenties because of financial difficulties. Today, it is largely intact, including the buildings, and can be…

I have always thought the "Nembo Spyder" looked much better than the 275 NART

Perhaps his real problem is that he is only a millionaire in a town where Billionaires out-number lowly millionaires three to one. He probably feels that he's a member of the persecuted under-class.

There are a lot of race cars smaller than the Shadow Can-Am car. Most of the 1.5 liter Formula 1 cars of the early sixties were tiny by comparison.

This is just my best guess, but I would say "none of the above". It's probably a case of all 50 states following the classic "Bell Curve" There would be a small percentage of very good drivers, the largest percentage would be mediocre/average drivers and then, of course, the rest are really bad drivers. It's the last…

Perhaps not the best car movie, but it did have some period racing footage of Indy cars and dirt track racers, but, the plot was not much better than other racing films.

Since the very first speeding ticket was issued more than a hundred years ago (in Ohio, I think), it's never been about speed... it's always been about MONEY. The cities, the States and the insurance companies think of drivers as their "cash cows". So, now they can't do without the revenue.

After viewing the video a couple of times and considering the physics involved, I thought the truck came to a stop in a reasonable distance for a vehicle of that size and weight.

The Daytona Coupe in the Simeone Museum is the very first one built. The only one built in LA. The other five were all done by Gransport in Italy. You're right, it ran at Bonneville and set speed records before it was sold off by Shelby. After a few owners, it disappeared for many years. It was owned by some crazy…

Having had 2 Lotus Elans, the second one the same "safety yellow" as in this photo, I can say they were the most fun to drive of any car I have ever driven.. Even if bits and pieces fell off from time to time. It was part of the ownership experience.

I'll see your Bugatti engine and raise you one Gurney-Westlake Eagle V-12.....

The German police used Porsche 911's back in the sixties... why shouldn't the Italians have a Ferrari? Makes sense to me. Don't the Italian police now drive Lamboghini Gallardos? The story continues....

On a couple of occasions, I was "buzzed" by a B1 while driving Rt 50 in southeastern Colorado. They were doing very low level practice bomb runs. Apparently, the topography of southeastern Colorado is very similar to the Russian Steppes. (This was a few years back... it was still the USSR then.)

You could be right about it being an alloy. And I can't recognize the "Type" of Bugatti from the photo... need a overall view to compare it to what's in my books.

It's not really a big deal...I've seen worse... a good "panel-beater" can bring the body panels back to their original shape without having to create new panels or patch in any unoriginal metal.

I think the rivets were originally used on the Aerolithe coupe because the body panels were a magnesium alloy of some kind and couldn't be welded back then without bursting into flames.