* This’ll make you want to go back to college: Stanford University will offer a new program studying the automobile in all its cultural, archaeological, aesthetic, technological and social aspects, starting with a symposium held this past week focusing on a 1933 4-1/4-Litre Bentley. * Over at ForgottenFiberglass, Geoff’s tackling the mystery of this fiberglass-bodied […]
The Canadian auction house, RM, was chosen to oversee liquidation of the onetime Bertone Museum, and its 30-car auction at the end of May in Italy promises to be one of the high-end sales season’s very peaks. Six of the cars will be actual Bertone creations, dating from the 1963 Chevrolet Testudo. Arguably, the wildest […]
The story of the Intermeccanica Torino/Italia is one that doesn’t get repeated often nowadays. It started with Jack Griffith, the New York car dealer (see “Hot Rod Hero,” HMM #92), who attempted to follow up his TVR-based Griffith 200 and 400 with the clean-sheet, Bob Cumberford-designed, Mark Donohue-engineered, Chrysler V-8-powered Griffith 600, but ran out […]