The following is my review of the movie, Ford v. Ferrari. It was over the summer of 1963, on the heels of Ford's near miss at the...

Book Review: "Edsel Ford and E. T. Gregorie: The Remarkable Design Team and Their Classic Fords of the 1930s and 1940s" Edsel Ford was...

If you were a hot rodder, Southern California was the place to be in the 1950s. Gasoline was cheap, the junkyards were flush with all the...

Grand Prix great Dan Gurney died January 14, 2018. He was age 86. Three-time world champion Jackie Stewart described him as, “The...

Two Reviews: CORVETTE—FIFTY YEARS, by Randy Leffingwell My brother, a car enthusiast extraordinaire, has driven them all—Porsches,...

Incredible but true. Porsche is a German car that owes its popularity to California. Being a native Californian, it seems only fitting....

Filmmaker Roger Corman wrote a book some years back entitled, “How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime.” Roger...

October 1973 — We turn left and head east on Imperial Highway, away from the ocean: two Porsches, one a canary-yellow Coupe, the other a...

If you’re into cars, the following three book reviews should kick-start your engine. CARS AT SPEED, by Robert Daley — When "Cars at...

Lee Iacocca could be abrasive, impatient, and obstinate. But he also could be a good listener and open to new ideas. He wasn’t...

Looking for a book to add to your summer reading list? How about a racing novel? Chances are you’ve never read one before, and yet a...

What do Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise, Paul Newman, James Garner, and Jeff Bridges have in common? Yes, they’re all actors....

It’s the sand that gets to you. It blows in from the North Sea and gets in the sandwich you’re eating, inside your collar, up your nose,...

You’re riding with F1 driver Jensen Button at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. He’s about to enter Eau Rouge, a combination left-right-left...

Back in the day, no one was ahead of Colin Chapman on the F1 design curve. Beginning in 1960 with the Lotus 18, Chapman led the way and...

Summer, 1967. We're sitting inside my brother Charles' 356 Porsche Coupe, facing downhill into the darkness. Somewhere beyond the reach...

John Lennon was a child of the street, a tough guy who, as a youth, seldom backed down from a fight. But he had a sensitive side, too,...

Throughout the 1950s, Ray Charles scored big on the rhythm-and-blues chart, and closed out the decade with a number-one hit single, his...