From The "It's About Time" Department:

Phil Hill (Ferrari 410 S) badgers Chuck Daigh (Scarab) in the  Los Angeles Times Grand Prix at Riverside in 1958.  Hill
ran second until the Ferrari's carbs vapor-locked.  Daigh won.

Bob Varsha said in a recent race broadcast that "Some of us are calling Turn 1 at Circuit of the Americas 'Phil Hill.'"  Good!  Let's make it official.  It's about time that the U.S.'s first World Champion had a corner on an American circuit named for him.  The uphill run into Turn 1 at COTA is even vaguely reminiscent of Turn 7 at Riverside Raceway.

Better yet, name the uphill left-hander Turn 6 at Road America after Phil.  He actually raced there and won the "big bore" event twice, in 1955 and 1958.

Good Luck...

...seeing who's coming up behind you.  Of course, in 1970-1971, not many people were coming up behind you.

Mini vs. Alfa At Goodwood

Couldn't find a still shot of the (only) Alfa GTA battling with the Minis, and, in fact, it was the Lotus Cortinas that gave it
the most trouble.  It finished 3rd on Saturday's race, behind the Fairlane Thunderbolt and sandwiched between two
Cortinas.  It finished 5th on Sunday's race, again behind the Thunderbolt and Cortinas.  But the finishing
order in vintage racing is almost irrelevant to the enjoyment of it.

This video is great fun, if you have 24 minutes to watch it.  Or just use the slider.  Not all of the vid is in-car; there are various camera viewpoints mixed with the in-car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WhMusod7MM

Old School

Ferrari 250 TR (Photo: Petrolicious)

Nothing digital for the engineers to analyze.  Nothing adjustable for the mechanics to tweak.  No radio strategizing with the team manager.  No spotters in your ear, either.  Plain old incandescent bulbs in the headlight buckets.  Your job, if you were lucky enough to have it, was to get in a drive for 3-hour shifts. If it rained, you got wet.  Maybe an extra pair of goggles around your neck.  "Deal with it," as we say nowadays.

Trivia Ancien

Who are they?
What is it?
When was the picture taken?
Where was the picture taken?
Why was this car built?

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Here's another shameless plug for John Saccameno's restoration shop, Sport & Specialty.  John brought this Austin Healey 3000 to the B.C.F. to showcase S & S's work.  And as an example, for a clinic/seminar that B.C.F. sponsored on restoration.  Re-assembly has begun after down-to-bare-metal and paint.

The body is an original Healey 3000, but the frame is new-old-stock supplied by an outside manufacturer.  The car will
have a medium-blue leather interior.  And possibly period-and-car-correct alloy wheels instead of the wires shown
here.  John is building this car for himself, so it will have "Most Mod Cons" (as the Brits say).  His red Big
Healey, which was restored to 100% original/correct several years ago, is for sale.

It's not hard to see where the man-hours go.  Only the wiring harness for the trim is in, because the
trim was installed to spiff the car up for the show.  Rebuilt and correctly refinished engine and
drive train and interior and top &c. &c. &c. still to go.

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1932 MG TA, actual size.  Humans shown for scale.  ;-)

Engine bay, unrestored 1952 Aston Martin DB 2.

For me, the lines of the XK-150 still works the best of the postwar Jags.  Boulevardier, but so what?

Hotshoe (next to driver's door) couldn't get over this McLaren.  He walked away and came back three times.  He liked
interior and thought the lines of the car made it wear any color passably.  Neither the car nor the color is my cup of tea.
The McLaren doesn't move my needle.  The Ferrari 458 Italia does.  But neither of us has to overthink this: supercars
are from our "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride" Departments.

Speaking of which, if I had to get to the West Coast in a car, comfortably and fast, I'd go in this Bentley.  Can't complain
about the color, either.  ;-)

Even the parking lot is interesting at the British Car Festival.  When I was young, I considered the Mercedes 280 SL a
heavy, slow, ugly, not-really-sporty, girly car.  But I'm all grown up now.  The interior is first rate.  And brown leather
goes well with dark forest green metallic.  Another superb Sunday afternoon car.