Take a look inside Greg Whitten’s car collection — including the Ferrari 250 GTO he sold at RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale last month:
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Keith’s Blog: Red Duettos and a Green Giulia Super
It was an all-Alfa weekend.
Last Thursday, the Alfa Romeo Club of Oregon hosted its annual “Red Duetto Tour.”
The brainchild of Fred and Lisa McNabb, the entry rules are simple. To participate, you must have a red “long-tail” Alfa spider, built between 1966-69.
Long-tail spiders were Alfa’s in-your-face response to impending safety regulations and larger bumpers. The Pininfarina-designed cars have impossibly delicate sloping front and rear ends. The slightest touch by another car when they are parked leaves a Read More
Video of the Week: Simeone Foundation Museum
Check out this MotorWeek video on the Simeone Foundation Museum (great footage of the Shelby Daytona coupe):
Keith’s Blog: A Collection of World-Class Winners — The Simeone Museum
The 1964 Shelby Daytona Coupe. The 1966 Ford GT40 Mk II. The 1970 Porsche 917LH. The 1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 B MM.
These are some of the greatest racing cars of all time.
They are four of the 65 world-class racing cars in the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia, PA.
Dr. Fred Simeone is a retired neurosurgeon who began building his collection in 1972, when his father died and left him with $8,000 and four cars.
He Read More
Video of the Week: Check out this video of a full-size Bugatti Chiron built out of LEGO Technic pieces
Keith’s Blog: Driving 1000 Miles in Stupid Old Cars
We were sitting outside a Porta Potty near Tenmile, Oregon. Our unlikely four-car caravan had traveled about 200 miles from Portland before our first catastrophic failure.
Our group included a 1966 Citroën DS-21 décapotable (cabriolet) owned by Greg Long from Seattle, a 1972 Alfa Berlina that belonged to Brad Miller and his wife Nancy from Portland (and Paris), the SCM 1967 Giulia Super with me driving and son Bradley as my companion, and the SCM 1992 Autozam – a 660-cc, turbocharged Read More
Video of the Week: Check out this video of the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
Keith’s Blog: Stuck on the Way to Monterey
Editor’s note: Keith Martin invited SCMers Luke Chennell and Richard Lincoln to come along on SCM’s Caravan to Concorso. Last week, Luke took over Keith’s Blog and wrote about the SCM Autozam blowing a head gasket. In this installment, Chennell takes us to California’s Lost Coast with a failing master cylinder:
I believe that fun is something that should be delivered good and hard. To do that requires hard work. It requires participation, kindred spirits and a commitment to goals.
Video of the Week: 1994 RUF BTR2
Check out the 1994 RUF BTR2 that will cross the block at no reserve during Gooding & Company’s Pebble Beach Auction this week:
Keith’s Blog: On the Way to Monterey
Editor’s note: Keith Martin invited SCMers Luke Chennell and Richard Lincoln to come along on SCM’s Caravan to Concorso. The catch: They had to drive SCM’s Autozam. Luke took over Keith’s Blog this week to tell the tale:
Road trips start off with a great longing of what’s to come, to see the adventures along the way, to know what’s over the next hill. It’s what drives humans to want the “news,” to have stories to share with those who Read More