Sunday, November 29, 2009
CAR FANATICS HAS MOVED!
Saturday, June 27, 2009
The Bugatti Veyron Grand-Sport

There has been a great deal of conversation regarding the new topless Veyron.
There have been endless photo galleries showing it at Pebble Beach and Calais, yet no one seems to have caught sight of one of these precious hyper cars. Until now. The first two production models showed up in front of me, walking down a back street in the Wine Country town of St. Helena, California. I walked around the town waiting for my uncle to show up for dinner, and stumbled on not one, but two Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand-Sports.

One in pearl white, one in silver, both sitting undisturbed just for my eyes to feast on, enough car to render me speechless. At first, I had to turn away, then turn back to be sure it wasn't a dream.


Monday, May 18, 2009
Heaven on Earth: The Ferrari Challenge




The next bit of fun began while we were perusing the 1954 Maserati 250F near the pits when the owner invited us, a couple of teenage car-nuts, to have a seat. Little did we know that 250F #4 was formerly driven by the great Sir Stirling Moss, who famously won the 1955 Mille Miglia and set the course record in a Mercedes 300SL. We left feeling that our hind-ends had been blessed in some way by the former presence of one of our greatest racing heroes. Maybe that is the essence of the Ferrari Challenge; to expose enthusiasts to three days of seeing their most cherished race cars, old and new, up close, on the track, and driven the way they were meant to be. Maybe the point is to give us all a taste of the driving glory associated with the legendary Prancing Horse. There is something to be said for the wealthy people who don't just let their old racecars sit in temperature controlled garages but take them out and not just drive them, but thrash them, to stuff their foot into the car of their childhood dreams and remind themselves and the car, how great they really are. If the car is built to go fast, it should go fast, as long as it stands on four wheels. For people like me, a 16 year-old, absolutely yearning to hear the sweet sounds of Italian Exotics and to get his hands on such driving magic, the Ferrari Challenge really is Heaven on Earth.

Labels:
Ferrari,
Ferrari Challenge,
Maserati,
Motorsport,
Racing
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Highway Survival At Infineon Part 1: Drifting in a Dodge Intrepid



Labels:
Drifting,
Highway Survival,
Jim Russell,
School of Racing,
SkidCar
Sunday, August 31, 2008
About the Author...

My name is Trevor Green-Smith, and though I love to write about cars, I've only just started driving them. I've loved cars my whole life, I guess it runs in the family, and so does the love of driving. My Grampa, owned everything from a performance tuned 57' Chevy, to a metal flake Mustang GT, to a Datsun 280Z, and mind you, he raced every car he got his hands on. My Dad's first car was a 67' Pontiac GTO, and my Mom owned the original Mini. My Uncles have had Porsche 911's and Mercedes SL550's, so I would conclude that cars are in my blood. I was keen on exotic cars from a pretty young age, to the point that I could name every car on the road by the age of four. When I learned what the fast-red-cars-that-made-great-noise's were actually called "Ferrari's", the deal was done. I was a Car Fanatic. Driving cars, as I've recently discovered is a whole other matter. After getting my permit, and subsequently enduring a truly awful 2 hour lesson in a Dodge Stratus with a 478 year-old man in the passenger seat, you could say that I was a bit discouraged. However, this hasn't stopped me trying to become Mario Andretti Jr., despite the fact that my parent's Toyota Landcruiser isn't exactly driving Nirvana either. Anyway, my experience with cars isn't just my lineage, but my own passion. I visited the Ferrari factory last summer in Maranello, Italy, I am constantly pestering the staff at the local exotic car dealers, and Infineon Raceway is a 20 minute drive away. Lets just put it this way, trips to London, Paris, Rome and other European cities don't exactly help me with my addiction to exotic cars. Enough said.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Tiburon Classic Car Show 2008
A collection of my photos from the 2008 Tiburon Classic Car Show...
A gorgeous 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, one of only 36 ever produced:

A fantastic Lamborghini Murcielago with a perfectly fitting background:

A row of 1948 Porsche 356's and a 1955 Austin-Healey 100M:

A collection of old Alfa Romeo's including a beautiful yellow Giulia:

An extremely rare 1951 Jaguar C-Type, the first race-car to run disc brakes at LeMans, one of only 52 cars ever built, the C-Type won the 24 hrs of LeMans on it's first try:

This 1961 Ferrari GT SWB needs no words:

I have absolutely no idea what in the world this is, but it is really, really cool:

A brand new silver Maserati GranTurismo, in my opinion, the best looking GT car ever built:

Friday, May 30, 2008
Aston Martin V12 Vantage RS: A Serious Driver's Car

Friday, May 16, 2008
THE LAMBORGHINI GALLARDO LP560-4: What Supercars should be...

Thursday, May 15, 2008
THE FERRARI CALIFORNIA

Some were hoping for a hard core, lightweight super car, some imagined a replacement for the 250 GT California of old, and some hoped for an F430 replacement, however, we received none of the above. On the contrary, we received none of those. What we see could be a replacement for the 575 Maranello, a 2+2, with possibly a folding hardtop, and a big V8 in the front and *gasp* a second pair of seats in the back. But there is one problem. It's not that original. It's drop dead gorgeous, no doubt about that, but is it really a Ferrari? Does it really carry the flare, the insanity, the passion, and the soul of the Ferrari's that we've all come to love? To me, it feels like competition for the BMW M3 or the Mercedes CL63 AMG, but just more expensive, and with that heart-stopping Ferrari badge on the front, and a few pieces of carbon fiber here and there. What we have here is not a supercar, but a toned down Ferrari, a subdued prancing horse. It almost feels like Ferrari held back on this one, it's missing the purity and the excitement that give Ferrari it's name, and all we can hope, is for the lunacy to return.
Images From Ferrari SpA
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
WELCOME!
Welcome to Car Fanatics Unleashed, where guys who are crazy about autos talk endlessly about the hottest exotics in town! We'll have weekly design reviews, roasts for cars we don't like, and a Car of the Month award to the car that doesn't get totally ripped apart!
Join us for a wild ride filled with news, pictures, adventures, and ridicule!
We look forward to your comments and suggestions!
Thanks,
Trevor
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