Non-residents are allowed to buy a small amount,(1/8 ounce, I think.) but, they can't take it out of the state and no one can smoke in a public place and the cops will stop you if you smoke it while driving... so, the real answer is NO.

That is an interesting place near Berlin. Been there for lunch and they have some great photos on the walls of the races in the past. Of course the steep banking has long since been demolished and is now a parking lot for trucks, I think.

The Miura does look very very good in blue, but, seeing one in black gives it a slightly sinister look.

Perhaps the rarest of the rare. The elephant sculpture created by Rembrandt Bugatti for his brother Ettore. The radiator caps of the 6 Bugatti Royales were adorned with Rembrandt's work.

Before Auto Union built their V-16, Harry Miller in LA built this V-16 beauty. I think it makes the Auto Union look like a lump of cast iron. And it's got proper overhead cams, not those "push-me, pull-me" rocker arms and push rods.

Actually,the banked section at Monza does have an "Oval" layout which includes the pit straight also used for the road course. Avus, on the other hand, is a long skinny "Dog-Bone" layout with two very long straights with steep banking at the north end and a flat south curve.

I was a bit surprised to read that the Bertone Mustang's ownership is a closely guarded secret. A few years ago, I remember reading an article about the car. Unfortunately, I can't recall exactly where or when I saw the article, but do remember some of what was written about the car. Apparently, L. Scott Bailey had…

Usually, the tiny back seats are the result of having to find room for the folding top and it's mechanism when it's down. Some of the trunk space is sometimes used also, so other than increasing the wheelbase (expensive), engineers have to squeeze the folding top between the rear seats and the trunk compartment.

A good friend of mine had a Gullwing and I had a chance to drive it on a number of occasions. I never once used the pivoting mechanism on the steering wheel. It's not an easy car to get into or out of under the best of circumstances, but having the wheel in the normal locked position at least gave you "hand hold" when…

My 944 Porsche has the handbrake outboard of the driver's seat like the Corvette, but it's a little further back between the sill and the seat. It's not in the way getting in or out and it's easy to use. So, it works for me...

This is sacrilege.... a pox on the house of Torchinsky!

Is the new ATS company the same as the old ATS??

Having owned an original 1966 Mini-Cooper 1275 and done the Mille Miglia, I have to go with the original movie also. After all it was actually filmed in ITALY and not LA. And what other movie has a Muira driving in the Alps in the opening credits and a "real cliff-hanger" at the end?

My curiosity got the better of me, (I should be working...) so, looked it up on Google. According to Wikipedia, the track still exists, but in a shortened form, much like Spa. It used to be 8kms per lap and 48 turns, but is now only 3.8kms. It had the same problems as the Nurburgring, being built on the side of a…

Clermont-Ferrand was one of the great Grand Prix tracks. I know it's not used for F1 anymore, of course, but is it still used for other types of racing? Or has it been abandoned completely?

The track was originally built by Pierre Bardinon, a wealthy French business man, who also had probably the premier collection of vintage Ferraris extant. Included in his collection were a number of very rare factory sports racers and, oh yes, TWO GTO's.

When Templehof was first built, it was the largest building in the world. Outdone only when the Pentagon was finished. The huge underground facilities were also used to build fighter planes during the war. Even though it still has some of its' Nazi Stigma" attached to it, the layout of the building was ahead of it's…

Volkswagen bought the original Bugatti Estate and restored many of the buildings such as Chateau St. Jean, the Stables, etc. The original Bugatti factory is not owned by Volkswagen. It was bought by Hispano Suiza in the early sixties to manufacture aircraft components, such as the landing gear for the Concorde. I'm…

No doubt, your numbers are closer than mine. I was going by just what the Group B rules were at the time. That 200 examples had to be built and then an additional 10% (20 cars) could be "Evolution" versions. Of course, the whole Group B was killed off, so the rules no longer applied. A business associate of mine…

Also, Ford Motorsport UK built an additional 20 "Evolution" cars with 610 HP under the Group B rules, so the final count was 220 cars.