Monday, October 2, 2017

Book Report: The Bridgebusters; the True Story Of The Catch-22 Bomb Wing

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This is a well-researched and written book: Thomas KcKelvey Cleaver is a screenwriter and World War Two air war historian.  It was ...
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Saturday, September 16, 2017

Off-Topic: Catch-22, Joe Heller, And Me

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Joe Heller, circa 1983 (from the back cover of his novel God Knows ). Catch-22 has influenced me more than any other book I've ...
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

A Photo-documentation Of The History Of Porsche 917-025

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There's no particular point to this post.  I just think an original car that's not iconic is interesting and fun.  Miles Collier Jr....
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Another Porsche 917 "Who Knew?"

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One of the fun things about the iconic nature of the Porsche 917 is that it must be one of the most documented race cars in history.  ...
Friday, May 5, 2017

Alfa GTZ Racing In The U.S.A.

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Vito Witting da Prato says in his mostly OK book  Alfa Romeo TZ-TZ  2: Born To Win  that the TZ was not raced in the United States (sidebar...
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Monday, May 1, 2017

Alfa Romeo GTZ's at Sebring, 1964-1966

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I backed into this post partly because of my amusement (with the distance of years) at Chuck Stoddard's reversal of fortunes at Sebring,...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

The Mini (And Me)

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Alexander, later Sir Alec, Issigonis.  After the Suez oil crisis of 1957, Austin's management green-lighted the revolutionary smal...