Petrolicious found this and used it to get my attention... I must compliment them (well, I do, often) for an EFFECTIVE method of getting attention by using a Tony Kelly image, he is quite the imaginative and enjoyable photographer

Proof it's not all Ferrari! Nice to see a Fairlane/Torino in the collection! 

By the way, a good time to bring up the difference between photography and porn, a bare butt ain't porn. No pink parts, then it ain't porn. 

I can't imagine how he can afford the set ups for the scenes, the amount of rental cost, for helicopters, sports cars, mobs of beautiful models, it's quite amazing

https://www.facebook.com/tonykellyworld

https://tonykellyworld.com/fine-art

1954 Mexican Road Race Ferrari was driven to P2 by Phil Hill and Richie Ginther

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the golden age of sports car racing IMHO

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no caption or introduction needed

https://www.facebook.com/groups/804065043454052

when a playful BOOP on the nose, goes too far

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the Bahamas Speed Week at Nassau (end of the racing season grand party) was the brainchild of a sports car racer and seaplane fleet operator Sherman “Red” Crise, who realized the abandoned Windsor Field airstrip would make a great racetrack

Crise was an interesting figure. He cut his teeth as a page at the New York Stock Exchange while studying for an aeronautical engineering degree. After graduating, he invested his NYSE earnings in a chain of three garages in New York, where he soon also gained the racing bug. 

Surviving the Wall Street Crash of 1929 relatively unscathed, he went touring across Europe with an American racing team in 1930 and returned to the USA the following year to set up a seaplane base, which soon became very successful.

The racing bug was still there and Crise soon tapped into the burgeoning interest in midget racing by establishing a chain of dirt tracks, which prospered from 1938 to 1942, when the USA entered World War Two. 

Crise - already a pilot - was swift to sign up and was assigned to the First Photographic Squadron, flying unarmed fighter planes on photographic missions, before transferring to Air Transport Command as a Captain. 

Towards the end of the war he was forced to bale out over China and suffered a broken neck, eventually being repatriated to Miami to recuperate. From his hospital bed he then dreamed up his next venture - the Miami Beach Marine Basin - which lasted a year until being destroyed by fire. 

During this period, Crise and his wife would often take yacht trips out to the Bahamas and it was during one of these visits to New Providence Island, home to the capital Nassau, that Red first spotted the open expanses of asphalt that made up the abandoned Windsor Airport. An idea soon formed in his head...

https://www.racingcircuits.info/north-america/the-bahamas/nassau-windsor-field.html

Invitations were sent out to the competitors of the SCCA at the end of the 1954 season, anticipating the first Speed Week from 6-12 December. 

When confirmed entries were slow in coming through, Red Crise put out feelers with the local car dealers and soon there were almost 100 unofficial enquiries for starting positions.

 The addition of a bike race also helped to ensure the event would have a decent chance of success and, bit by bit, a good entry was finally obtained.

https://www.racingcircuits.info/north-america/the-bahamas/nassau-windsor-field.html

In 1954, the Nassau Trophy Road Races were born on the Windsor Field circuit, with Masten Gregory taking victory in a Ferrari 375 MM. The following year it was Phil Hill’s turn, behind the wheel of the Ferrari 857 S, while in 1956 Stirling Moss triumphed in a Maserati 300S.

The track saw the greatest names of the era pass through, including Alfonso de Portago, Carroll Shelby, Dan Gurney, A.J. Foyt, brothers Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez, and Innes Ireland, alongside cars that would go down in history: the Lotus 19, the Scarab Chevrolet, and the Chaparral 2A of Hap Sharp and Roger Penske, which dominated in 1964 and 1965.

https://automedia.revsinstitute.org/sun-sand-and-speed-an-atmospheric-look-at-the-1955-bahamas-speed-week

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In August 1942, the British govt started a (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF at Nassau Airport to train general reconnaissance crews using the North American Mitchell and Consolidated Liberators.

(Why train in the Bahamas? Far from the European theater of war?)

In December 1942, the airport was named Windsor Field (after the Duke of Windsor, who had taken up regular residency on the island after abdicating as the King of the United Kingdom.) and became a Royal Air Force (RAF) station.

The OTU returned to the UK in September 1945 and was disbanded.

Invitations were sent out to the competitors of the SCCA at the end of the 1954 season, anticipating the first Speed Week from 6-12 December. When confirmed entries were slow in coming through, Red Crise put out feelers with the local car dealers and soon there were almost 100 unofficial enquiries for starting positions. The addition of a bike race also helped to ensure the event would have a decent chance of success and, bit by bit, a good entry was finally obtained. In June 1946, the RAF withdrew from Windsor Field and it reverted to civilian use. 

In November 1957, Nassau International Airport at Windsor Field was brought into full operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynden_Pindling_International_Airport

Annie Soisbault de Montaigu took part in the Tour Auto, and the hillclimb at Mont Ventoux in 1965, in a Ferrari 250 GTO #3607, and was the only Monte Carlo Rally competitor to ever bring her pet cheetah to the start (Thank you Paul!)

Annie Soisbault (maiden name)  https://www.racingsportscars.com/driver/archive/Annie-Soisbault-F.html

In 1956, she entered the Monte Carlo Rally "clandestinely," riding in the back seat of a Simca Aronde alongside two friends. Snow joined the fray, and the difficulties piled up. She took the wheel and impressed everyone, setting some impressive times. She finished 119th out of 233.

In 1957, she entered the Mille Miglia, driving a Panhard Dyna. She retired. No matter, the bug had bitten. She bought a Delahaye Grand Sport, then a Triumph TR3.

after running her privately owned TR3 she was brought into the factory Triumph team. 

In 1958, she became French Rally Champion and officially joined the Triumph team. The following year, she won the European Championship. She didn't limit herself, not even by competing in single-seaters. At the wheel of a Lola Mk2-Ford, she competed in Formula Junior races, eventually finishing 12th overall at Chimay.

After rallying moved into racing with her husbands Ferrari GTO, raced the Tour de France in 250 GTO (#5575) and the Prix de Paris (in #3607)  and here wiping out on the hill climb at Mont Ventoux, famous for the Tour of France cycle race. 

She won her class, then followed up with a fourth-place finish at the 1000 Kilometers of Paris in a Ferrari 250 LM, partnered with Guy Ligier.

After a few attempts at long-distance rallies—the East African Safari in 1966 and the Paris-Saint-Raphaël in 1969—she retired from competition. But not from cars. She took over the Mirabeau garage in Paris, then an Aston Martin dealership.

Living between Paris and Saint-Tropez, she became a discreet socialite, both elegant and independent. She passed away on September 18, 2012

https://www.envoiturecarine.fr/2025/annie-soisbault-de-montaigu-la-grande-dame-du-sport-automobile

https://forums.autosport.com/topic/175131-annie-soisbault-1934-2012/

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https://collectorscarworld.com/the-grand-dame-of-motorsport/

the rich people around London are pushing for more scrutiny from London Metro Police to bust hooligans... and a Dubai-registered Ferrari Monza SP2, (1 of 499 made, worth 4M), was confiscated because it was uninsured and the driver wasn't properly licsensed

It was one of 90 vehicles worth a combined total of more than £8m seized over the weekend as part of an operation with the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB) cracking down on uninsured motorists and antisocial and dangerous driving around Hyde Park, Kensington and Chelsea.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/10/police-officer-gets-chance-to-drive-ferrari-seized-in-met-crackdown

what are Ferrari's most impressive 5 cars... I think this group ain't it. Where's the 59 Testarossa? 1963 250 GTO? The 1968 365 GTB/4? These qualify for the modern era... but is not definitive for the brand, for all time. Not even close

https://rmsothebys.com/stories/five-legendary-ferrari-halo-cars-heading-to-monterey/
https://www.instagram.com/rmsothebys/

https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/mo26/lots/#?SortBy=Default&SearchTerm=Ferrari&page=1&pageSize=40

I finally watched the movie Ferrari with Adam Driver last night...

 good movie for the inside look at how he struggled with his wife, hating him for their son's death, and his mistress, wanting THEIR son to get his full attention, and his other mistress, and the cost of keeping all them in mansions, without letting his wife know what that cost them financially

The Ferrari shop, well realized on the set, hell, it's nearly real in the movie

the cars...wow. The sound, incredible, but REALLY LOUD compared to the actors talking. So, yeah, every damn minute of the movie you are lower the volume, and raising the volume

but the cars? I've never seen the 58 Testa Rossa driven around until now.. what a beautiful car! 

Mostly the movie is about a month in his life, as he deals with bankruptcy, insolvency, the wife owning 1/2 the company, and mustering the drivers into a team to win the Mille Miglia. Then a crash, blamestorm, etc

a scene in the 1959 version of On the Beach, a futuristic film about atomic war set in 1964.

Everyone is dying from radiation. Near the end, Fred Astaire seals his garage door, climbs into a Ferrari race car, revs the smoky motor and lays back in the seat to die.

1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Spider, one of 35 and the racing sequences filmed at Riverside Raceway in California and at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit.

https://www.autoblog.com/news/55-ferrari-750-monza-speeds-from-show-stand-to-race-track-to-si

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Enzo’s Revenge, The 1967 24 Hours of Daytona victory formation.

 

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Daytona Beach 1954.

 Guido and Mario Levetto posing in a Ferrari 340 America (serial #0120A).

 Car was owned by Jim Kimberly and was driven at the meet by Jack Rutherford

It set a sportscar speed record in the mile for a two way average of 136.03 mph

Guido is said to have served as translator for the France family and the Italian teams that came to Daytona.

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40 years ago today, this “Ferrari” hit the movie screens in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

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I am still waiting for the promised and promoted https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-sequel-to-ferris-buellers-day-off.html  movie about the parking garage attendants who take it for a joy ride   

As of a year ago, it was still getting made https://movieweb.com/ferris-buellers-day-off-spin-off-sam-and-victor-update/

Mike Parkes Labrador Federica in the cockpit of his Ferrrari 512 during the shooting of the movie "Le Mans".

 

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This 1954 Ferrari a museum in Marseille is a 150 cc 2-stroke, built by the Ferrari brothers (no relation to Enzo) in Milan. At some point the car company tried to stop them using the name, to no avail. (Thank you Kim!)

Did you see and hear about this travesty that Ferrari will regret for decades, until (or IF) it's ever forgotten? Ferrari stock instantly DIVED 10%. 600k electric car that looks terrible. Utterly unlike anything Ferrari ever made, because Ferrari never made anything this ugly before

 
Anthony Dick, an auto analyst at Oddo BHF, added that Ferrari's stock drop is “by far the sharpest reaction we’ve seen for a car design - the market has spoken," adding, "Luce marks “the furthest deviation from the brand’s ethos we’ve ever seen."

https://fordauthority.com/2026/05/ford-evs-look-like-masterpieces-next-to-the-new-ferrari-luce/#comments

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2026/05/government-distorts-market-again-and.html

coffee and donuts video with great cars to get your morning off to a good start, there are Cobras ,Ferraris, a Pantera, a Stratos, GT 40s, E types, Lolas, 908s etc

The original Lupin the 3rd anime series (Part I) first aired in Japan on October 24, 1971, and ran until March 26, 1972. Like Tin Tin, it's loaded with cool vehicles

This is the actual opening credit sequence... how can this not be admired?! Mercedes-Benz SSK (W06, 1928-1932  thank you CoSC!)

and the 1st scene in the first episode, is a Gran Prix

according to the cartoon, it's a Ferrari 312 (312 = 3 liters, 12 cylinders)

The character Fujiko  that is either Lupin's girlfriend, or double agent spy, drives an Alpine in episode 1

and the bad guy in episode 2 drives a Messerschmitt