Daytona Speedweeks may be the rite of emergence from racing’s winter hibernation on our shores, but in Europe, it’s the running of the Monte Carlo Rally. That event is so venerated that, as with Le Mans, Monaco and Goodwood, it’s spawned a hugely popular offshoot limited to historic vehicles. This year’s Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique, the […]
Our good friend Mike Eldred recently returned to the States from a few weeks in Eastern Europe observing the recent elections in Moldova. Sounds like a good time, doesn’t it? Mike wrote: It was a real gas to be in the former Soviet Union and the other East Bloc countries. Moldova was kind of a […]
When you think of vehicles originating in the Czech Republic, or former Czechoslovakia, you probably think of Škoda. But if Škoda isn’t esoteric enough for you, you may recall the fabric-bodied Velorex three-wheeler. From the “Strange But True” files comes news of the rebirth of the Velorex. While original Velorexes were never imported to the […]