Is it possible to think of South Africa anytime before the Mandela era and dissociate it from the images of apartheid that remain with us? Perhaps if all you saw of the country were its automotive advertisements. Then again, I suppose the same postulation rings true of any country (America included) at any period of […]
Lewis Strang in a Thomas at the French Grand Prix, 1908
Many men participated in the dawn of organized motor racing in the US, and many lived hard and died young. Lewis P. Strang stands shoulder to shoulder with Louis Disbrow, Barney Oldham, Ralph De Palma, David Bruce-Brown, Louis Chevrolet and other titans of the era, […]
Mark McCourt and I have been back from the big import show in Carlisle since Sunday night, but what with deadlines and all, I haven’t had a chance to go through my photos until now. You can’t talk about Carlisle without talking about the weather, and we were lucky there – it only rained on […]