Porsche Classic has reprinted more than 700 original driver’s manuals. In doing so, Porsche has provided first-hand documentation for virtually all its early models, starting with the 356 from model year 1952 right the way through to the 911 type 996. The documents are now available from all Porsche dealerships worldwide or be ordered directly from the Porsche Classic online shop. The documents for older classic … [Read more...]
Reviews of books, model cars and automobilia, plus stories and information about other automotive collectibles.
Porsche Archives Grow Over Time
The Porsche Archive is based in Zuffenhausen -- but that’s not the whole story. There are also thousands of design drawings housed in a basement room in the Weissach Development Center. All in all, this 70-year collection contains over 100,000 sheets. Uwe Geisel's movements are almost reverential as he unrolls a construction drawing with the utmost care and caution on the table top in front of him. He caresses the … [Read more...]
2017 Monterey Car Week Photo Book
Monterey Car Week has grown by leaps and bounds over the past several years, making it next to impossible to see everything. Some days there are multiple events happening at the same time throughout the Monterey Peninsula, which inevitably means you end up missing something spectacular. To the rescue is the book 'Nine Over Nine – Monterey 2017', which captures everything from the Monterey Pre-Reunion to the Best of … [Read more...]
Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2015-2016 – Book Review
Dr. Orsi and Mr. Gazzi have an enviable skill for considering vast amounts of data on the $1.2 billion-plus annual collector car market, presenting it in salient graphs and each year coming up with new and insightful ways to make sense of it. Even more remarkably they make reading about it enjoyable and easy to understand. The Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2015-2016 includes results from 107 individual auctions in … [Read more...]
John Fitch Archive Collection Expanded
The life of racer and engineer John Cooper Fitch is reflected in the myriad of items that recently were presented to the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) in Watkins Glen, New York. The gift from Fitch's sons, John, Christopher and Stephen Fitch, significantly enlarges the John Fitch Collection created at the Racing Research Center in 1999, when papers were donated relating to his career as a … [Read more...]
Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2014-2015 – Book Review
Collectors, dealers, agents, auction houses and a few observers pick through the entrails of transactions and auctions seeking the portents of trends in the market. To many there is never enough information, and certainly not enough cogent information, to divine the future before it becomes the present. The uncertainty is manifest in the frequently wildly erratic pre-sale estimates of auction companies. If they – … [Read more...]
Special Ferrari Registration Offered
Ferrari North Europe will auction the unique personalised registration 'V12 LAF' to benefit the Henry Surtees Foundation. Selling to the highest sealed bid submitted before the end of November, the personalised registration is obviously the perfect number plate for a LaFerrari, the Prancing Horse’s ultimate hypercar. The Henry Surtees Foundation was named in honour of the son of 1964 Ferrari F1 World Champion, … [Read more...]
Rudy Mailander Photos Added to Revs Digital Library
Rudy Mailander was a busy man. Although his long career in the automotive world covered writing, publicity and business affairs, it is his motor sports photography that endures. One of the greatest photographers of the early sports car revival in Europe, Mailander traveled the race circuits extensively from 1950 – 1955, capturing the action and the people – who always seemed to respond singularly to his camera lens. … [Read more...]
New Book Honors Gabriel Voisin
A new book celebrating the life of designer, inventor and visionary Gabriel Voisin has emerged. VOISIN: La Différence is a modern retrospective on Gabriel Voisin and his avant garde designs and pioneering inventions, documenting his life with stories and photography of many of his most important innovations. Created in partnership with the Mullin Automotive Museum, VOISIN: La Différence was authored by the world’s … [Read more...]
Revs Institute Adds Tom Burnside Collection
The Revs Institute for Automotive Research acquired famed automotive photographer Tom Burnside's collection of images chronicling decades of automotive racing, personalities and car collections. The collection, which numbers some 40,000 negatives and prints, will become part of the ever-growing archive at the Institute’s research center in Naples, Florida. “Tom Burnside’s work has been highly regarded for decades … [Read more...]
The Magnificent Monopostos – Book Review
The Magnificent Monopostos - Alfa Romeo Grand Prix Cars, 1923-1951 By Simon Moore, Edited by Malcolm Harris, Parkside Publications, Seattle, 2014 Review by Rick Carey, Auction Editor It is impossible to be sufficiently lavish in praise for the third of Simon Moore's definitive compendia on Alfa Romeos, The Magnificent Monopostos. Simon set himself a daunting task twenty-eight years ago of presenting … [Read more...]
Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2013-2014 – Book Review
In the collector car auctions' relentless series of events there is rarely an opportunity to sit back and take stock. At most it becomes an occasional consideration of the major events of Scottsdale, Retromobile, Amelia Island or Monterey. Adolfo Orsi and Raffaele Gazzi provide the opportunity each year with their Classic Car Auction Yearbook to reconsider all the major sales in one thoughtful, illustrated, well … [Read more...]
The Longest Day Book Project
Do you remember the moment when you fell in love with cars and racing? For Chris Workman, the author / illustrator of a new children's book project called The Longest Day, his passion for racing was born when he attended his first live race event. “I kept thinking about the excitement I felt when I went that first IndyCar race at Road America with my father and older brother, and how I fell in love with racing … [Read more...]
Revs Digital Library Now Available Online
Stanford University's new Revs Digital Library provides a web-based tour through the world of the automobile – its past, present and future. In 2011, Stanford University and The Revs Institute for Automotive Research, Inc. in Naples, Florida established a partnership designed to provide access to the historic collections curated by the Revs Institute. As a result of this partnership, the new Revs Digital Library … [Read more...]
Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2012-2013 – Book Review
Review by Rick Carey, Auction Editor It isn’t until page 12 of the 2012-2013 Classic Car Auction Yearbook that authors Adolfo Orsi and Raffaele Gazzi slip in the paragraph that defines their conservative, reasoned take on the 2012-2013 auction results: “The question is: Are we at the crest of a wave with some of these high prices? Those who have been so kind to read our comments over the years probably noted … [Read more...]
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