Jalopnik
monterey historics
-
monterey historics
Madmen Will Put Any Number Of Weber Carbs On Any Engine You Want
We saw some cool Weber carburetor setups at last year's Monterey Historics, but the guys at the Pierce Manifolds booth have upped the Weber ante with their insane custom intakes. You want to put eight two-barrel Webers on your Chevy 348? No problemo- they can pull that manifold right off the shelf for you! How about a GMC Twin Six with 24 Webers? Yeah, we're drooling. [Pierce Manifolds]
-
question of the day
Are You Concours, Dream Cruise Or Sonic Parking Lot?
As you may have noticed, we divided our time this weekend between the 2008 Woodward Dream Cruise and the Monterey Historics. Both events are full of the kind of people who love cars, though the people themselves are often as different as a 1967 Mazda Cosmo 110S and a 427 Cobra Limo. The greatness of our car culture comes from the variety of our interests, backgrounds and ideas. And while we celebrate this oil-stained plurality, we understand that your ideal car show may not be our ideal car car show. So, what is your ideal car show? More » -
monterey historics
Olio, Huile, Or Oil? Gauges Of The Monterey Historics
Once I saw a tachometer with a "$$$$" marker at the redline and another driven by a leather belt coming off the camshaft, I decided I'd start shooting some instrument panels at the Monterey Historics. Italy, Germany, Japan, and Detroit are all represented in the gallery below, but Joe Lucas ( the Prince Of Darkness) caused all the shots of British gauges to come out blurry and/or dark.
-
monterey historics
1967 Mazda Cosmo 110S Doesn't Care How Many Pistons Your Car Has
When's the last time you saw one of these? This damn-near-perfect first-year Mazda Cosmo didn't go out on the track, but it did grab more attention than most of the quadrillion-dollar Ferraris, just sitting there parked.
-
-
-
monterey historics
What Do You Drive To The Monterey Historics? Leave The Camry At Home!
As soon as you arrive at the Monterey Historics and park your car, something becomes very clear: this isn't your typical bunch of parked cars! More late-model Porsches, Ferraris, and Corvettes than you can shake a briefcase full of nonsequentially-numbered $20 bills at, of course, but also dozens of funky old imports that drove to the event under their own seemingly miraculous power. I shot a handful of the cars I encountered on the walk between my parking space and the track. You can take the whole vintage-ride-to-vintage-race thing a big step further- if you're really serious- and do what the driver of a certain Trans Am Ford Falcon did: drive your race car to the track!
-
monterey historics
Not Just Engines At Monterey: Emblems, Chrome, And Shiny Baubles!
I've always loved photographing car emblems and hood ornaments, and what better place to do so than a huge racetrack complex full of priceless vintage racing machinery?
More » -
monterey historics
Engine Pr0n From The 2008 Monterey Historics
We saw a whole bunch of engine shots from the '07 Monterey Historics, so let's make it a tradition and check out some of the vintage go-fast hardware that roared into Steinbeck country this weekend. You get a pretty interesting mix of engines at this event, with exposed-valvetrain mills in horseless carriages, big Detroit V8s stuffed into tiny European machines, and all manner of high-strung Italian iron with camshafts and carbs all over the place. Make the jump for three big galleries.
More » -
monterey historics
Welcome To The 2008 Monterey Historics! Glorious Engines Everywhere, Not Many Meat-On-A-Stick Options
The temperature is a perfect 66 degrees, there's a soundtrack of wailing engines, and you can't walk 20 yards without encountering some legendary race car. Yes, it's the 2008 Monterey Historics, where I spent all day yesterday poking my camera into engine compartments and trying (in vain) to find a booth selling Deep Fried Porcine Lymph Nodes On A Stick. Check in later for some righteous Engine Pr0n! -
Earlier today we spoke of the Napier-Railton setting a 1939 speed record at the Brooklands Motor Course outer circuit. Sections of the British race track are still intact, or as the photographer who took these pictures writes - lying derelict, broken into by Gallaghers. [Brooklands Race Track]
