Thursday, February 12, 2009
What you see here is the classy smile of a 1937 Bugatti Type 57SC Atalante, one of not all that many handsome streamlined coupes to emerge from the factory in Molsheim, France. Last August, it sold at auction in Pebble Beach, California, for a not-unsubstantial $7.9m. Carmi is all about “up” this week, and as [...]
What you see here are the dual chromed exhaust pipes that fall elegantly from the long, vented hood of a 1938 Mercedes-Benz 540K Sport Cabriolet, with one-off coachwork by Erdmann & Rossi. They remind me of the arms of the robot in the 1960s TV series, “Lost in Space.” You know the one, the Model [...]
These downdraft Weber carburetors sit atop the 3-liter V12 of a 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder. Cal Spyders are rare indeed, and the short-wheelbase variant, as this car is, with covered headlights, as this car has, is about as rare as it gets. Webers are the nostrils for this rorty Italian engine, breathing [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Carmi’s theme this week is “sweet.” I’ve devoured my fair share of sweet in the last six days, but I haven’t photographed any of it. I did, however, shoot this BMW M3 a couple months ago. I was on my way home from work and the sun was in that good place, and I wanted [...]
Saturday, November 22, 2008
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is a slightly ostentatious cocktail party for cars, and in August we all celebrated 100 years of General Motors. Yay, General Motors, look at all that great 1950s spacecar design. GM is in a way these days, deep, and thick as thieves with the rest of Detroit. This is an [...]
Saturday, November 15, 2008
I am still on the lookout for images about rows. I remembered this one from the not-so-deep archive and judged it appropriate. You can’t not know this car.