By William Edgar | Photographs Edgar Motorsport Archive Carroll Shelby, as he himself would say, has gone horizontal. He died at age 89 on Thursday, May 10, 2012, at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, after pneumonia earlier this year left him weak and vulnerable to what eventually comes to us all. He knew I was writing this story and I was looking forward to telling him it was published here in … [Read more...]
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Sir Jackie Stewart – Speaking Out of The Box
By William Edgar | Photographs as Credited It was July 19, 1974 that I really got to know John Young Stewart, even though I’d already met and worked with him several years before that British Grand Prix Friday practice day riding with him in a chauffeured Daimler out to Brands Hatch, a distance of some 25 miles from London’s Savile Row where we’d first made a stop at Jackie’s tailor. In the limousine with us were … [Read more...]
The Quail Life—Up Close at the 2011 Motorsports Gathering
The Quail Life—Up Close at the 2011 Motorsports Gathering Story by William Edgar Photography by William Edgar and Noted Arriving somewhat after the mid-August Rolex Circle of Champions Best of Show winner rolled onto, and off of, the awards ramp at The Quail Lodge Golf Club in Carmel, California—this article comes as an “up-close” companion to Sports Car Digest’s more timely, though slimmer, initially posted … [Read more...]
Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance 2011 – Report and Photos
The Art of Italian Motoring – 2011 Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance Story and photos by William Edgar To begin our special event report, I quote a favorite line that Stephen King scripted for the 1982 comedy horror film, Creepshow—“It’s Father’s Day, and I want my cake!” Well, I got mine, not as in the movie, if you should recall that macabre denouement, but rather here in Beverly Hills, California, as a delicious … [Read more...]
The Quail Motorcycle Gathering 2011 – Bike Day Bliss
Story and Photography by William Edgar At first it seems a medieval jousting field of honor, a time-travel panorama of knights and steeds flanked by peaked tents and smoke from roasting meats. Missing here, though, are armor and lance, and at least some of the ancient chivalry. The horses are not flesh but metal—steel, iron, alloy, carbon fiber—on wheels, not hooves. Ages after Sir Walter Scott’s 12th Century … [Read more...]
CSRG Infineon Season Opener 2011 – Three to Get Ready
Story by William Edgar, Photography by William Edgar and Graham Blake as noted To begin, I was driving through the Sonoma Valley early Friday morning on April Fools’ Day—I’m not kidding—to spend the next three mornings and afternoons doing what so many of us love to do, which is to attend a vintage racing weekend at one of America’s best road course raceways. The surrounding hills were green from recent … [Read more...]
John Edgar MG Special – MG Mighty Midget, TC for All Times
Our MG Mighty Midget, TC for All Times By William Edgar and photography courtesy of Edgar Motorsport Archive My first really dramatic recollection of our MG-TC was drifting through Sunset Boulevard’s curves, my father at the wheel. He’d folded the screen flat and the wind-blown tangs of hot engine and rubber were sheer adrenaline. I was 15 then, had already learned to drive the family’s Type 57C Bugatti, and … [Read more...]