Author Archives: Neil Eschenfelder
I needed to visit the Raleigh, North Carolina, on family business. Knowing my short stay wouldn’t take up my entire time I thought I’d see what goes on in Raleigh when it comes to cars and performance shops. I hopped on Google and punched up performance car shops. Wow! No shortage here! Paging through search [...]
Sometimes serendipity provides the ultimate juxtaposition. In the Watkins Glen International Raceway Tech Garage I encountered one of those rare moments during the SVRA 2011 US Vintage Grand Prix. There, just waiting for me, sat a pair of classic racing vehicles whose moments in history lay only 50 years apart but whose indelible impact on [...]
Previous Daily Derbi Weekend Wallpaper submissions originating from my desk suggest a sense of wonder as dedicated drivers converge on America’s race tracks with their treasured 4 wheel family members to show how fast they can go driving equipment relatively new to American society of the time submitting a pull still irresistible in today’s society; [...]
Ed. note: This is part 3 of a 3 part series on Ford GT40s. Here is Part 1 and Part 2. Continuing with historic Ford GT cars, Mr. Jim Cullen of California gave me a rundown on his original Gulf color version. Jim states, “The car is a Superperformance GT-40R based on the original GT-40 [...]
Ed. note: This is part 2 of a 3 part series on Ford GT40s. Ford GT’s make up some of the more interesting participants at vintage racing events. As I mentioned in my last article, Ford GT swagger continues to this day. Those driving street versions proudly park their wheels where people like me can [...]
Ed. note: This is part 1 of a 3 part series on Ford GT40s. Back in the hazy days of my high school career, news bits from Ford’s dominance of the ’66 LeMans 24 Hour race trickled through the car klatch of friends and pseudo auto enthusiasts with which I hung out. A new really [...]
