Originally published in AutoWeek August 12, 1985 They don’t build elegant race cars anymore. Sophisticated lines don’t mesh with the crunch and thrust of modern racing, where equipage is carbon fibered and monocoqued and wind-tunneled and sponsor-covered and as functionally ugly an IBM PC. But it wasn’t always that way. Once upon a time one […]
Maserati Ghibli Spider: Driving under the Influence.
Originally published in AutoWeek October 18, 1982 Maserati Ghibli Spider, photos by John Matras. Summer nights are special magic, a sorcery that suspends time and makes déjà vu the common experience. A web of warmth and darkness and fantasy. The weatherman may say it is warm and humid, but anyone with a soul knows it’s […]
BMW 1600-2 Cabriolet: Blue-sky Never
Originally published in AutoWeek April 5, 1983 BMW 1600-2 Cabriolet; Photo by John Matras It drives BMW owners wild. It makes ‘em crazy. To be sure, others notice the BMW 1600-2 Cabriolet. Some, slant six Valiant drivers for example, ask what kind of car it is. Others, more astute, point it out to their friends. […]
1965 Corvair Corsa Spyder: Chevrolet’s mid-’60s Turbocar
Originally published in AutoWeek February 15, 1983 1965 Chevrolet Corvair Corsa Spyder; Photos by John Matras Conceived in the mist of Eisenhower’s orthodoxy and reared in Kennedy’s conformist Camelot, the Chevrolet Corvair was GM’s initial venture into the unconventional. No one expected such a car from Detroit, and by common knowledge, it should never have […]
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