Normally, racing is responsible for the destruction and abuse of cars, rather than the preservation of cars. However, in the case of this 1983 Toyota Starlet for sale on Hemmings.com, racing is the reason for its preservation, while its street-driven counterparts have all but rusted away by now. As always, we’d like to see paperwork […]
While we’re pretty sure we positively identified Private Lewis van Alstyne’s car as a one-off G.J.G. racer, we haven’t closed the book on the car yet, and Marianne DeAngelis of the New York Guard sent us a couple additional photos of the car, recently discovered in the Elting Library’s Heidgerd-Haviland collection. Marianne writes:
He (Private van […]
* I’ve always read about how the Chevrolet Vega was built/designed to be shipped on its nose in special train cars from the factory, but I’d never seen any pictures of Vegas actually hanging, hamhock style, in train cars until I came across a few over at Rich Barstis’s blog.
* To help celebrate Land Rover’s […]