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Perhaps you have heard the rumors that — following the Clarkson debacle a few months back — that Top Gear, now apparently cancelled by BBC, will be revived as a Netflix series.  In the meantime, here’s a 928 being abused … Continue reading →

I’m nearly a week late on getting this post out.  Dennis Hoyt sends along more photos from the Bahrain Grand Prix, showing his exhibit display tent and his presentation to Bernie Eccelstone and the Crown Prince of Bahrain. See this and … Continue reading →

A couple of years on, now that it is pretty well sorted, Herman tells me that this sweet little thing is now his daily driver.

ClassicCars.com’s blog reports on last week’s Gooding & Company auto auction in Phoenix (Scottsdale, to be more specific) and the continued astonishing rise in prices for Porsches, including the once-lowly 912. Of course, the 944 species seemed to be absent … Continue reading →

The 2014 F1 season in review:

The Blue Rascal, thankfully,  has that increasingly-rare feature … a manually-shifted gearbox.  If the current trend continues, eoncoboxes will be the only new cars so equipped (and maybe even those will give way to CVTs).   The use of the traditional … Continue reading →

Today, we have Chad McQueen (yes, the son of …) in a 911 chase with Nicolas Hunziker … Published in September 2014. Seeing this reminds me that the art of “heel-and-toe” is almost obsolete, given the modern industry trends, arguably led … Continue reading →

Friend Herman passes this along …