Stuff: 2010 Monterey Motorsports Reunion

Story and photos by John LeBlanc
LAGUNA SECA, Calif. – Since the mid-1970s, fans of vintage racing have been coming to the Monterey Peninsula’s Laguna Seca race track to see a wide variety of vintage racers, some of which trace their beginnings to the inaugural Pebble Beach road races in the 1950s. And like the senior [...]

Stuff: 2010 The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering

Story and photos by John LeBlanc

CARMEL VALLEY, Calif. – Now in its eighth year, The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, is held on the golf course holes that lies between the Santa Lucia mountains at the Quail Lodge Resort in Carmel Valley. If may not be as well known as the Monterey historic races at [...]

Stuff: 2010 Pebble Beach Concours D’Élégance

Story and photos by John LeBlanc
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.–If interest in the automobile is waning, don’t tell any of thousands of enthusiasts who made their way out to the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Élégance this year. Between the new, the old, the classic, the survivors, and the just plain odd cars on display on the famous [...]

The Crank: Ford’s New Age 2011 Explorer not all that new

By John LeBlanc
After a series of unmitigated sales flops (2005 Freestyle; 2008 Taurus X; 2009 Flex,) the “all-new” 2011 Explorer will be Ford’s fourth crack in the last decade at a midsize crossover based on the old Volvo S80 chassis from the last millennium.

First Drive: 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 Coupe

How much is that Shelby in the window?

While the rest of Ford’s 2011 Mustang lineup gets all new mills, the topline Shelby GT500 makes do with tweaks. Is it enough?

By John LeBlanc
CALABOGIE, Ont.—If not as big a money maker as his onetime racing car rival Enzo Ferrari, affixing 1960s’ American racing legend Carroll Shelby’s name [...]

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