Slippery Listers

Cool period photos of the Frank Costin-designed Lister Jaguars. Costin was, aside from Jaguar's Malcolm Sayer, the premier designer of aerodynamic racing car bodies in Britain at the time, penning the famous Vanwall GP cars as well as many early Lotus models.

2002 Memories

During some house-cleaning today, I turned up this old photo of my beloved blue 1973 BMW 2002, which was my first car.  It was a real peach, with round tail lights, a single weber carb, very little rust, and a beautiful wooden Nardi wheel. Thought I'd put it up here to share. I have many fond memories of this car, which I learned to drive stick on.  Despite the car's diminuitive size, it still had the highest steering effort I have ever experienced when parallel parking!  I wonder who has the car now and why I didn't take more photos of it when I had it...

Any other '02 owners out there who want to share their stories?

Video of the Week: TRANS AM!

This movie clip has some really phenomenal in-car footage and shots of the drivers at work! What a great period for American Road Racing the late 60s and early 70s was...

Midtown Maserati

Bertone's B99 GT5: Jaguar XJ12C Reborn!

I really loved the overall look and feel of Bertone's B99 Jaguar coupe concept at Geneva. I think it captured the Jaguar ethos better than the marque's current offerings.  But I must confess I loved the outlandish racing version of the car even more than the "production" version of the concept. The aggressive haunches and proportions instantly recall the Broadspeed XJ12C racing car campaigned by British Leyland in the 70s, and the wild spoilers and diffusers bring to mind some of the crazy Japanese Silhouette racers from the 80s.  Sure, it's a bit wacky, but after the trauma of the Alfa 4C, the Saab PhoeniX and the BMW Concept, it was a nice salve for my eyes. Check out these awesome renderings released by Bertone!