But too beautiful not to share. Just gorgeous filmmaking.
Have you ever seen a more beautiful color?
•January 3, 2012 • 11 Comments(Okay, French racing blue on the Bugatti Type 35 comes to mind.)
Read somewhere that the color here is called “Patina Green,” although that could be wrong.
Perhaps more interestingly, could any modern car pull off this color?
About the car:
The start of something new in 2012?
•January 2, 2012 • 36 CommentsReader Joel sent in this idea (a variation of similar requests we’ve periodically gotten in the past from other readers):
I know a few good roads and several car guys that would love nothing better than to go driving 🙂 And that gives me another idea. You should work on a way to link up local MCB fans.
So what do you say, MCB readership— is this something that folks would be interested in? If so, let us know, along with your city and state, and depending on the level of interest as well as uh, geographical synergies, we’ll try to come up with something.
We note that these sort of ‘meet n’ drive’ groups actually appear to be quite common in vintage car- and supercar-owning circles, but why should those clubby groups get to have all the fun? Regardless of what you drive, we want to democratize motoring con brio 🙂
Leave a comment here, or if you prefer, email us. This could be the start of something fun and grassroots-y in 2012.
(Image: Roger Egea)
Assorted grab bag of stuff we like
•January 2, 2012 • 8 Comments
And now for a bit of self-aggrandizement: our automotive year in pictures
•December 30, 2011 • 10 Comments
Here are some of our personal highlights from 2011. There were times where we didn’t carry a camera and others where we couldn’t be bothered to shoot – a rained-out Watkins Glen event (when does it ever *not* rain at Watkins?) and a sweltering summer weekend at Summit Point come to mind – but for the rest of those times, here’s some photographic output.
Scene from last winter. All the world’s a rally stage when it snows, no? At least in appearance:
Other than a freak snowstorm in October, we have yet to see anything remotely resembling snow this winter. Eagerly waiting in anticipation— the opportunities for a bit of old-fashioned hooning are what we look forward to the most in the winter, which is a sentiment we’re sure a lot of our fellow hoons living in northern climates share 🙂
We see the addition of a new stablemate, and immediately proceed to pour lots of money into it— the joys of keeping an older car looking good and running well 🙂
Lime Rock in June any time of the year is a fine place to be:
We drive the Tail of the Dragon and other area roads, easily the best we have ever had the pleasure of driving. This is motoring heaven, enough to rival even the experience of driving on race tracks (in our opinion).
Granted, we were fortunate enough to encounter some seriously favorable driving conditions— largely clear skies, minimal traffic and law enforcement presence, no mechanical issues of any kind. We realize the pendulum could have easily swung the other way, but such is the unpredictable nature of driving public roads.
We toy – briefly but intensely – with the idea of a bargain-priced E28 M5. After going to check out the car, we think better of it— one of those cases where it looks good from far but ends up being far from good.
Not the last time we’ll look at an E28, we’re sure.
Quick shoot with a friend:
S52B32 engine (from an E36 M3) under that Diamondschwarz bonnet. The car is a riot to drive, as one might expect.
Lightning circuit at New Jersey Motorsports Park:
And finally, one last hurrah at Lime Rock:
That’s all, folks. Got any images from this year that you’d like to share? Feel free to send them in or link them here.
Thanks for tuning in, and happy motoring in 2012.
Black-and-white images © automobiliac.com; Lime Rock images © pointnshootphotography.com
Our favorite ‘Youtubes’ of 2011
•December 29, 2011 • 2 CommentsLots of good ones. We tried to keep this to videos that were actually published or upload in 2011, lest this exercise quickly get out of hand.
Without further ado (and in no particular order):
“Embedding disabled by request” (why?), but well worth the click-through:
Josh Clason (“Depth of Speed”) = good stuff. Here are two of his fine films:
Know of any we missed? Let us know about it!
Our favorite cars of 2011
•December 28, 2011 • 15 CommentsOf all the cars we posted in 2011, these are our favorites (filtering out examples that aren’t realistically attainable— your 458 Italias and BMW M1s and the like). Recall any that we missed? Drop us a line or a link in the comments.
Here they are, then, in no particular order.
Motoring Con Brio 