Autoweek Daily Drive — Tuesday, August 14, 2012

HOME   |   CAR NEWS   |   CAR REVIEWS   |   RACING   |   AUTO SHOWS   |   VIDEOS   |   COLLECTOR   |   SUBSCRIBE Tuesday, August 14, 2012                  A 1963 Brabham BT6 was one of more than 250 vintage racing cars competing in the Monterey Motorsports Pre-... The races have begun More than 250 vintage racing cars took to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Aug. 11-12 for what is called the Monterey Motorsports Pre-Reunion. The event was formerly known as the Monterey Pre-Historics, and it serves as a lead-in to the Monterey Motorsports Reunion staged during the Pebble Beach weekend on the Monterey Peninsula. A large percentage of the cars participating in the Pre-Reunion will ...   Goodguys 1932 redux to be given away The iconic Goodguys 1932 Ford sedan logo car is being cloned. Not in a laboratory, but by custom-car builder Dave Kindig of Kindig-It Design in Salt...   Cadillac to show off 1930s-era cars at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance On Monday, we talked about what Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar were doing at Pebble Beach this...   Third time is the charm for a 1969 Chevrolet Z28 Camaro owner He swears he's not giving it up again. After all, Rich Pelton was lucky to find his 1969 Chevrolet Z28 Camaro the third time. Pelton, of Sparks, ...   For the love of Mercury We've determined that the magic age is eight. That's when most car nuts can remember a significant car moment. In Tony Herk's case, it was his father's purchase of a new 1958 Mercury Park Lane, the successor to the Turnpike Cruiser and the most ostentatious of any Mercury. “I fell in love...   Remembering Sergio Pininfarina, 'The Godfather' I grew up in the service department of my family's Dodge-Chrysler-Plymouth dealership on Detroit's east side. I swept floors and washed cars and did oil changes. I liked seeing the 'Cudas, Road Runners and Chargers, but the first car I ever really loved—the one that first got me excited about ...   Few cars perform well in new insurance group crash test The insurance industry has unveiled a new, tough frontal-crash test. The first batch of 11 luxury and near-luxury cars put to the test by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety didn't fare so well--only three were rated as good or acceptable. The test rams the front corner of a car into a...   Pikes Peak fans: Dirt or asphalt? The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb went dirt-free for the first time on Sunday, and the reviews from fans and competitors have been mixed. Record speeds highlighted the event, as four drivers this year cracked the...   Inside the mind of every driving instructor . . . Every occupation has its hazards, but we imagine that teaching teens to drive exposes one to a higher than average number of white-knuckle moments. Sharp-eyed reader David Disch captured a photo of this vanity plate that reveals what driving instructors are really thinking every time they...   Preparing to wander the Woodward Dream Cruise Last year as I prepared to pull onto Woodward Avenue in the thick of the Woodward Dream Cruise, I saw two Batmobiles in my rearview mirror. Not one. Two. Count 'em. Later on that day, someone vaguely offered to sell me a stunt-car Dodge Charger ... You May Have Missed...   Nissan shows 20 years of GT-R evolution in Web documentary The Nissan GT-R went from Japanese oddity to video-game fantasy to American reality in less than 20 years. Now the car with video games in its blood—and its instrument panel—is sweeping racetracks across the world. On Friday, Nissan released a 20-minute documentary about the evolution...   Vintage articles on vintage racing at Monterey The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is just around the corner, and before those classic engines roar to life at Laguna Seca once again, it's worth remembering the origins of the long-running event. Once called the Monterey Historic Automobile Races and known popularly as the Monterey Historics,...   Mercedes and Jaguar set for Pebble Beach While Chrysler, Ford and General Motors concentrate on the Woodward Dream Cruise, Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar are preparing for Pebble Beach weekend.Mercedes will host a tribute to the W194-chassis SL roadster. It will also show 45 years of its performance arm AMG and display the Concept Style Coupe,...   Second Fisker Karma fire under investigation Investigators hired by Fisker Automotive are looking into a Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid sedan that caught fire on Aug. 11 in a suburb outside San Jose, Calif.This is the second instance of a fire involving a Karma in the last three months.In a statement Monday, Fisker said its investigators from...   Alfa Romeo 4C convertible likely for 2015 Conventional wisdom holds that if you want to take on Porsche's 911, you need a convertible variant. And although Alfa Romeo's often marched to the beat of a wonderfully idiosyncratic drummer, it sounds as if it's hewing to general sporting-car rules of thumb with the 4C.According to a report in...   Paul Dallenbach in good condition after Pikes Peak crash caught on video Paul Dallenbach, multiple champion at Pikes Peak, is in good condition following a crash into the forest early into his attempt at the Pikes Peak international Hill Climb on Sunday. The team released a statement on Monday.The Dallenbach team's car was powered by a naturally aspirated engine that...   Gilmore Car Museum surprises What a difference a year has made at the Gilmore Car Museum. We have not been there since the new Genevieve & Donald S. Gilmore Automotive Heritage Center was completed last winter. The new complex is not readily noticed approaching from Kalamazoo, Mich. Following directions from the former main...   Former Indy racer Jerry Grant dies at 77 Jerry Grant, a 10-time competitor in the Indianapolis 500 and the first person to turn an official lap faster than 200 mph in an Indy car, died Sunday, Aug. 12. He was 77.Grant, a prominent American road racer, turned his historic 201.414-mph lap in 1972 at Ontario, Calif. But he is probably best...   With Harvick feud still fresh, Cope sisters try to raise funds: What's the buzz? Last month, Sprint Cup driver Kevin Harvick ripped into NASCAR Nationwide Series rookie Amber Cope.During the F.W. Webb 200 in Loudon, N.H., Harvick, who was leading the race with 10 laps to go, got tangled up with Cope, who, at the time, was 33 laps off of the lead. Brad Keselowski passed Harvick...   Chrysler dealers fix faulty Pentastar V6 engines: Autoweek TV Also in this episode: The DeltaWing Le Mans prototype may become the next Indy Lights car, and we review the winners of this past weekend's motorsports events.TRANSCRIPT-- Chrysler dealers are fixing plenty of Pentastar V6s. -- We may see more of the DeltaWing race car. -- And we catch up on the... CLICK HERE TO UNSUBSCRIBE from the Autoweek Daily Drive E-mail or to sign up for other Autoweek e-mail products. IMPORTANT: Please add Autoweek.com to your E-mail Address Book to ensure you will continue to receive our newsletters. Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail. You will not receive a reply if you use this e-mail address. Crain Communications, 1155 Gratiot Ave. Detroit, MI 48207.