by Joe Farace | Dec 1, 2015 | *All Posts, Mercedes Benz
This photo of my wife’s old Mercedes 320SLK ( she still misses that car) was made in a local park using a Casio EX-F1 and the camera’s 16×9 ratio capture mode. Exposure was 1/640 sec at f/8 and ISO 200 in Aperture Priority (Av) mode. It was temporarily parked...
by Joe Farace | Nov 24, 2015 | *All Posts, Mercedes Benz, Range Rover, Subaru, Volvo
Today’s Post by Joe Farace My first car was a brand-new red 1961 Ford Falcon Futura, much like the one pictured below. Over the years I’ve owned lots of different cars and have written about a few of them in the “Our Cars” feature that appears here from time to...
by Joe Farace | Nov 6, 2015 | *All Posts
According to a Facebook post made by his son, Brett, George Barris, the car designer who created the iconic 1966 Batmobile died on November 5. He was 89. “He passed on peacefully in his sleep at 2:45 am. He was surrounded by his family in the comfort of his...
by Joe Farace | Nov 5, 2015 | *All Posts
Ford’s Legendary High-Performance Street and Race Cars The subtitle says it all. Ford Total Performance is a highly personal look at an era when automakers, especially Ford, waged an all out motorsports war producing a decade (1961-1971) long series of cars the...
by Joe Farace | Nov 3, 2015 | *All Posts, Chevrolet, Corvette
The U.S. Copyright Office recently issued a ruling to allow vehicle owners to perform vehicle diagnosis, repair and modification without fear of prosecution under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). However, the Copyright Office declined to provide the...
by Joe Farace | Sep 17, 2015 | *All Posts, Austin Healy, Jaguar, Land Rover, MG B, MG TD, MINI, MINI Cooper, Morgan, Range Rover, Triumph Spitfire
The Colorado English Motoring Conclave will be holding the 32nd edition of the Annual Conclave. Date: Sunday, September 20, 2015, Location: Oak Park, 64th Place and Oak Street, Arvada, Colorado. Time: Registration (for entrants) begins at 8:00 am, Voting (by...