With certain cars, you know at a glance the target audience that the automaker had in mind, even moreso nowadays, with automakers scrambling to define and fill every segment under the sun. In the 1960s, with just a few lines of cars in each automaker’s repertoire, it took some creative option and bodystyle combinations to […]
Van Order collection photos courtesy of Smithsonian magazine If you get an opportunity, pick up a copy of the April 2011 issue of Smithsonian magazine. In it, you will find an interesting article, “The Early, Deadly Days of Motorcycle Racing,” by David Schonauer, about board-track racing enthusiast and photographer Ashley Franklin Van Order. Van Order […]
Sir Stirling Moss will take to the track at Le Mans next month behind the wheel of his freshly repaired and race prepared 1961 Porsche RS 61, during the Le Mans Legend historic race. Moss bought the car back in March 2010 and entered it at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca last […]