CARSCOOP (Free subscription) | yesterday
This weird looking sports car is the W3 Triposto and it's the work of Canadian engineer Clyde Kwok and his son Hugh, a race car driver. Their company, Wingho Auto, builds the W3 Triposto using a Porsche 911 as a donor car. Clyde and Hugh prefer early 1990's 911s modifying the 3.6-liter boxer engine to produce 300HP, but the Canadian duo can work...
Puadkee (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
This car was purchased new by British race- car driver Earl Howe.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
It was the equivalent of finding an old Picasso or an unknown Beatles tape hidden away in your uncle's attic. Relatives of Dr. Harold Carr found an extremely rare 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante _ a Holy Grail for car collectors _ as they were going through...
MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
A rare Bugatti motor car, which has been parked in a garage gathering dust for nearly 50 years, is expected to fetch millions of pounds when it is auctioned next month
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Bugatti once represented the height of motoring achievement. The supercar was so ahead of its time it could go up to 130 mph when most other cars topped out about 50 mph.This particular car is even more valuable because it was originally owned by Earl Howe, a prominent British race car driver, and because its original equipment is intact, so it can restored without relying...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
LONDON — It was the equivalent of finding an old Picasso or an unknown Beatles tape hidden away in your uncle's attic.Relatives of Dr. Harold Carr found an extremely rare 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante - a Holy Grail for car collectors - as they were going through his belongings after his death.The dusty two-seater, unused since 1960, didn't look like much in the garage in Gosforth, near Newcastle...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
LONDON An extremely rare 1937 Bugatti has been found in a garage in England and is expected to draw a record price when it is auctioned in Paris next month.
The dusty but intact Bugatti Type 57S Atalante is one of only 17 ever made. It had a top speed of 130 mph (209 kph) at a time when most cars could only go half as fast.
The powerful two-seater car from the heyday of the celebrated...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Last updated January 2, 2009 4:35 a.m. PTRare 1937 Bugatti supercar found in English garageLONDON -- An extremely rare 1937 Bugatti has been found in a garage in England and is expected to draw a record price when it is auctioned in Paris next month.The dusty but intact Bugatti Type 57S Atalante is one of only 17 ever made. It had a top speed of 130 mph (209 kph) at a time when most cars...
Fanster - All Sports. All Phoenix. (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Great quote from the Suns’ Shaquille O’Neal in Men’s Journal: “Go to the cloning era, clone myself 20 times, and put myself in America as 20 different people. One Shaq would be a banker. One Shaq would be a sheriff. One Shaq would be a race car driver. One Shaq would be a prince. One Shaq [...]
trymi | yesterday
Two Canadian auto enthusiasts, a father and son, Clyde (a retired engineering professor) and Hugh Kwok (a racecar driver), came up with a car called the W3 Triposto which is coachbuilt and patterned after the Porsche 911 and comes with the capacity of seating three occupants across with the driver in the center. The engine of the Triposto is air-cooled horizontally opposed 6-cylinder
Styledash (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Style Tip of the Day Alpinestars has been dressing moto and race car drivers for years but dressing Hollywood's hottest starlets? Oh yes. It's happening. Their new line, which they call a cross between "James Dean and Cali surfer," offers a mix of biker inspired geared that has young celebs (think Blake Lively and Kirsten Dunst) on the verge of joining Hells Angels. Okay...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Australian police nabbed a 78-year-old driver doing 170 KPH in a 100 KPH zone on New Year's Day. His justification? He was a race car driver "enjoying the feel of the road." The go-fast grandpa was out in his hotted up Nissan Pulsar for a drive with the Nissan Datsun Owner Club. He and another club member in a Nissan GT-R were scooting along at speed on a narrow country road when...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | yesterday
Led Zeppelin "will tour and record album with new singer" according to Jimmy Page's manager Peter Mensch. Speaking to BBC6 Music, Mensch has said that the band would carry on, even though Robert Plant doesn't want in. Speaking to the...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
"People don't really understand it," Mensch explained to BBC 6 Music. "Jimmy Page has been playing guitar professionally since he was 16 years old. Jimmy Page likes being a musician. He doesn't want to be a race car driver or a solicitor.
BallerBlogger (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Men’s Journal via The Arizona Republic: What’s the most cherished possession you ever lost? My first credit card. That was in 1992, when I first got drafted. I put my wallet down, and everything disappeared. You know how you get out of college and you’ve got to be professional and do everything right? That just told [...]
