Articles tagged Kohler

Page 40 of January 1982 archive issue thumbnail

Page 40, January 1982

The Sixty Mercedes

HAVING written a number of articles on different makes of sports-car, the last of which dealt with the 20 / 70 h.p. Crossley, the thought arose, which was the first sports-car? Several contenders come to mind, and have been cited by others — the 27 / 80 h.p. Prince Henry Austro-Daimler, the Prince Henry Vauxhall, the 15T Alfonso Hispano Suiza, even' the E-Type 30/98 Vauxhall itself. Yet all these...

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Page 55, July 1975

A return to the cyclecar

The economic recession resulting from the prevailing astronomical oil prices has turned thoughts in the direction of electric cars, steam propulsion and all manner of new styles of economy car. We were able last month to sample a three-wheeler that comes in the last-named category. It might have been conceived in the 1920s but was, in fact, designed eleven years ago by Bob Collier, who used to...

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Page 30, October 2008

Gordon Kirby – The US Scene

A road trip to remember The historic weekend at Road America in Wisconsin is one of my favourite events in the American racing season. It’s known these days as the Kohler International Challenge with Brian Redman and this year there were celebrations of Lola’s 50th anniversary, of Formula 5000’s founding 40 years ago, and of the Scarab marque. A tremendous turnout of competitors helped attract a...

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Page 34, September 2006

Can-Am Ball

On the 40th birthday of the biggest big-bangers ever, Gordon Kirby joins the party while Pete Lyons gets to grips with a monster from the past By all accounts, Road America’s annual mid-summer Brian Redman weekend – now formally known as the Kohler International Challenge with Brian Redman – has established itself as one of America’s leading historic racing weekends. Historic racing is booming in...