Do I have to choose?
Month: June 2010
Categories
Hammond and Moss
This excerpt from a longer interview makes me REALLY want to see the full program which aired a few nights ago in the UK. There’s some additional details on Stirling’s site.
via
I love it when old ideas are re-examined alongside new innovation. After being banned in 1957, the dustbin fairing is returning to the contemporary motorcycle racing scene on the 2010 Agni E1 electric race bike.
Just look at this video. With the rider’s simple black racing suit you can almost make yourself believe you’re looking at 50’s footage—until you see the back half of the bike anyway.
Limited power? Limited range? Sounds like electric bikes will, somewhat unexpectedly, give the modern world a return to old-time racing.
Hell for Leather has the complete story.
“I feel that the Lotus is the best attempt yet to provide the enthusiast with a competition car at a price he can afford to pay. In essentials, it is just as sound an engineering job as the most expensive sports car, and the economy is only brought about by the clever adaptation of mass-produced components.”
Sounds to me like J. V. Bolster was on to something. This Lotus 6 looks every bit as desirable today as it did when Autosport wrote this glowing review in 1953.
Categories
Kruse Loses Auction License. Now What?
Kruse International Auctions had their auction license pulled by the Indiana Auctioneering Commission last week for multiple complaints of non-payment to sellers. Yikes. I wonder how this might affect the auction community and whether this experience will create a mistrust of selling at auction that will spread to other houses. Does Kruse’s poor practices taint the wider collector car auction market? Will collectors treat this is an isolated incident unique to this auction house?
Interestingly, the Kruse homepage currently directs visitors to Auburn and Leake auction houses. I don’t know that I’d happily take Kruse’s endorsement right now.
Update: Sports Car Market reports that RM will be announcing that they have purchased Kruze…