One of the things I miss about living on the Oakland-Emeryville border was proximity to Fantasy Junction. The proprietors were kind enough to let me wander in and marvel at a John Player Special, or become transfixed on a safety wire running through the head of a bolt on a Bugatti Type 35. Now you […]

Investment or driver? The constantly debated question becomes kind of a moot point with race cars – after all, they were built to be driven, and to be driven hard. They went through constant changes – updates and repairs alike – so that there often is no one absolutely correct configuration. And who cares about […]

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 […]