Stanford University Libraries. Ferrari 250 GT / Testa Rossa (RT) 9/7/1960 - Stanford Digital Repository. Stanford Digital Repository Ferrari 250 GT / Testa Rossa (RT) Photographer: George Phillips (Photographer) Date created: Type of resource: Still image Genre: Digital image Collection: The Collier Collection of the Revs Institute for Automotive Research Subject: Automobile > History Revs ID: 2006-001PHIL-1960-b1_52.0_0026 Table of contents Image 1 Use and Reproduction: Users must contact the The Revs Institute for Automotive Research for re-use and reproduction information.
Copyright: Courtesy of the Revs Institute for Automotive Research. . ← Return to Gallery Ferrari 250 GT / Testa Rossa (RT) Connecting the past, present and future of the automobile. I was 7 when my parents first let me drive.
I can remember it well: taking the wheel of a red six-speed ZR1 Corvette (top speed 180 mph, 0-60 in 4.2 seconds), keeping pace with a blue Porsche 928 across the Golden Gate Bridge, down Lombard street towards the Transamerica Pyramid, to the foot of the Bay Bridge, I got my first taste of what it was like to be in control of an automobile. I thought nothing of how lucky I was to get to drive at such a young age - the year before I had flown an Apache Helicopter, was an old pro on the links at Pebble Beach and had played one-on-one basketball with Larry Bird - but my time in the driver's seat of a Vette had me hooked. In the years to come I would drive the F1 circuit at Monaco more times than I can count (though I've always struggled with the Nouvelle Chicane), and have wrestled with the blind crest of Laguna Seca's corkscrew in everything from a Silver Mercedes AMG CLK 55 to a Mini Cooper 1.3i (British Racing Green, of course).
End. ReMix: Road & Track. Road & Track Project Archivist Hired. The Manuscripts Division is excited to announce that David Krah has been hired as the Road & Track Project Archivist.
David has processed multiple collections at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Engineering Archives, including records, photographs, and drawings documenting the San Francisco drinking water system. Previously he worked as an archivist in the Special Collections Department at the University of California, San Francisco, where he processed the papers of geneticist Ira Herskowitz and the organizational records of Larry Crooks' Radiologic Imaging Laboratory. David holds a BA in English from San Francisco State University and an MLIS from San Jose State University. Stanford/REVS Receives Road & Track Archives. John Morton sits in the Collier Collection’s Porsche 356B Abarth Carrera GTL with his head and torso wired.
Various parts of the car are electronically monitored as well, all in the name of research by the Revs Program at Stanford. The sending unit for the telemetry can be seen above the rear window. The event is the 2011 Porsche Rennsport Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Impressive Progress at the Revs Program at Stanford University By Michael T. Last week we spoke of the issue of disposing of one’s automotive ephemera, or at least the portion that has been unused for some time. Auto Archives Land in Safe Havens. Connecting the past, present and future of the automobile. Motoring Memories: Retrospective: John Bond, "Father of Road & Track"
Road & Track is the longest running North American automobile enthusiast’s magazine; it will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2007.
Although not R&T’s founder, John R. Bond saved it when it was collapsing in the early 1950s, gave it direction and purpose, and can legitimately be called “The father of Road & Track.” When John Bond, who was in turn R&T’s associate editor, technical editor, editor, owner, and with his wife Elaine, publisher, died in 1989, it marked the end of an era for this writer, and countless sports and small-car enthusiasts, particularly those who “came of age” in the 1950s. John wrote his first article for R&T, “What Is a Sports Car?”
(then a burning issue among sports car enthusiasts) in 1948. Road & Track had been started in Hempstead, N.Y., by two young motor enthusiasts named Wilfred H. The financially precarious publication’s next issue appeared in May, 1948, now out of Burbank, California. John brought strong credentials to his writing.