Because sometimes, even a car guy needs to sit back, turn on the TV, and...wait, what were we talking about?
La Carrera Panamericana: Are Studebakers Amphibious?
Haller hooked us up with this example of an overcooked holiday meal. During this year's La Carrera Panamericana, Rusty Ward came through this corner a tad bit too hot and ended up dumping his Stude cop car into a stream. Luckily, Rusty and his co-driver James Miller escaped intact, and even hammered the car out enough …
La Carrera Panamericana: Rachel's Story, Finally
As Coop pointed out, raceblogging is tough business when you're covering the kind of ground that the drivers on La Carrera Panamericana do. So of all of our La Carrera pals, Rachel ended up writing the least on the race. That's now changing. Scotto enlisted her to write a five-part story for 0-60. Go check it.
La Carrera Panamericana Hangovers
Coming down off the end of a marathon drive is always a little tricky; adapting back into the real world after spending thousands of miles watching for hazards and pushing oneself to the limit. But as Coop notes, "Maybe the fear of death does this to you, but food tasted better, the air smelled sweeter, everything just …
A Whole Mess of La Carrera Panamericana
Haller, Rachel and Coop have all checked in with updates on the state of the race. There've been a number of hairy wrecks with at least one person, the navigator in an E-Type, landing in the hospital. Coop reports:
La Carrera Panamericana: Coop Checks In
Everyone's favorite fully-bearded Oklahoma-native pin-up, hot-rod and rock 'n' roll artist finally turned in a report from the Mexican road race, and he claims there's much more to come. He, Gerie Bledso and Jim Silver qualfied 7th and took 7th overall in the first stage. Then some do-gooder complained that their…
La Carrera Panamericana: It's a Race, Not a Rally
Inverting the maxim constantly bandied about by competitors in the Gumball 3000 and Bullrun, among other events, La Carrera Panamericana is most assuredly a race. We've had radio silence from our correspondents from the last day as they were busy with qualifying (qualifying isn't mandatory for La Carrera, but a good…
La Carrera Panamericana: Mothers of the Pearl
We ended up finding the website for Nicolina H bert and Anna S rensson's La Carrera effort, the pearl-gray Saab 96 simply down as the Pearl. It turns out that it started with the two women meeting at a party and striking up a conversation, when H bert admitted that she'd dreamed of doing the Mexican road race since…
La Carrera Panamericana: The Pearl is Ready to Rock
Nicolina Hubert (right) and co-pilot Anna Sorensson are set to run their vintage Saab 96 — bearing the Steinbeckian sobriquet of "The Pearl" — in La Carrera Panamericana. The 96 was famously campaigned in rallies by Erik Carlsson back in the early 1960s and enjoyed a 20-year production run, with the last one trundling…
