I’m a planner. There’s always a chance that my clutch leg won’t be fully operational time for the 2020 SCM 1000. I plan on driving the route, so I’ve been musing about affordable, 1974-and-earlier two-pedal options. If I had an unreasonable budget, my first two choices would be either an […]
I’ve been driving something for as long as I can remember. It started with the blue-and-white pedal car my grandfather got me when I was 3 years old. Soon enough I had a Hawthorne 20-inch single-speed coaster-braked bicycle. We ordered it from the Montgomery Ward catalog and picked it up […]
SCM’s beloved 1975 Ferrari 308 GT4 is on Bring A Trailer at No Reserve! Click here for the listing. The auction ends Thursday at 1:35 p.m. This is a remarkable car. I bought it from Fantasy Junction a year ago, flew down to Oakland with Bradley and drove it up […]
The team at SCM has created a perfect way for you to look back over 2019. The first-ever SCM Year in Review is hardbound and suitable for your coffee table. It is 100 pages of never-published images and new articles about the year and the market from SCM regulars Donald […]
“What an amazing display of “A-list cars.” That was the response of Jakob Griesen, Head of the U.S. Motoring Department and Vice President of Bonhams, as he viewed the cars entered in the first annual Las Vegas Concours d’Elegance. Arrayed on the show field at the DragonRidge Country Club, located […]
The World of Speed Motorsports Museum celebrated motorsports personalities who have a connection to the Pacific Northwest on Saturday night. I attended with SCMer Michael Pierce and World of Speed two-time summer program alumnus Bradley Martin. Located just south of Portland in Wilsonville, Oregon, the World of Speed is a hub […]
I first met Gary Bartlett at a small gathering of Americans participating in the Mille Miglia in 1992. We were in the small town of Soragna, near Brescia, Italy. Longtime SCMer Joe Tomasetti organized the dinner. This was before the “MM” became a bucket-list event for wealthy enthusiasts from all over […]
The celebrity-driven Lifestyle Weekend is emerging as a new wave of car events. I’m just returning from the inaugural Chattanooga Motorcar Festival, where the backdrop of downtown Chattanooga, a 1.5 mile flat-out time trial against the clock along the Tennessee River and various celebrity panels provided three full days of […]
Fixing cars on the cheap never works out well. I was in a planning meeting for the 2020 SCM 1000, and a serious question came up — how many mechanics do we need? The 2020 SCM 1000 has a spectacular route that includes Mount St. Helens and the Oregon Coast […]
There was a time in the late ‘80s when I was gainfully unemployed. I had left my job as Sales Manager at Ron Tonkin Grand Turismo and decided to make my living buying, fixing up and selling Alfa Romeos. At that time there was no shortage of non-running but not-yet-decrepit […]
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