Episode 197 includes interviews from the 100th Anniversary celebration of the Maserati Trident logo. The event was held at Maserati Sydney in Waterloo in Sydney on a chilly July night and celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Trident logo, created by Mario, one of the Maserati brothers - an artist rather than an engineer. In 1926 the Tipo 26 was the first Maserati to … [Read more...]
Ep 196 CSCA & TSOA Track Day
Episode 196 covers the Combined Sports Car Association (CSCA) & Triumph Sports Owners Association (TSOA) track day. On the 14th June I went down to One Raceway near Goulburn to meet with the drivers and watch some track action. I recorded six interviews with Triumph, Maserati and Jaguar owners during the day whilst watching the track action - clockwise and … [Read more...]
Cunningham
This article is about a specialist car company that developed pure racing machines and was a huge success in the States. The company is Cunningham – the creator of the racing stripe at a time when teams used national racing colours. This Cunningham is not related to the luxury Cunningham cars of the 1920s and 1930s. The company was founded by Briggs Cunningham II in the US … [Read more...]
Car Names Go Like The Wind
Car names are fascinating. Historically manufacturers either wanted their family name on the vehicles, for example Ford, Ferrari or Lamborghini, or they wanted a fast animal - Jaguar or Panther spring to mind. In some cases manufacturers were named after notable people: De Soto (after an explorer) or Cadillac (after the founder of Detroit). Dropping down a level to a … [Read more...]
Transaxles
A transaxle is the combination of a differential and gearbox in one unit. What this does is to reduce the packaging of the components into one unit rather than two. So in effect it is a transmission axle or "transaxle". In a traditional rear drive car, the engine is at the front with the gearbox connected at the rear of the block converting the power delivery through a prop … [Read more...]