THE GOLDEN AGE OF MOTORSPORT, THE 1950's AND 1960's . . . . WELL, IT'S MY GOLDEN AGE, FIND YOUR OWN IF YOU HAPPEN NOT TO AGREE . . . . INDY CAR RACING, WITH AN OBVIOUS FOCUS ON 'THE BRICKYARD' WAS THE ZENITH OF THE CATEGORY . . . . BEAUTIFULLY FAST.

REAL MEN DRIVE WITH THE ENGINE AT THE FRONT . . . . MOST MODERN RACE CARS MAKE ME YAWN.

How could anyone who is into motor racing not be moved by the aesthetic delights of the Indy Cars they were racing in the late fifties and early sixties ? At a period where the earliest of the rear engined cars as pioneered by Colin Chapman were beginning to appear the definitive and traditional Offy powered rigs were still the thing to beat at their spiritual home, Indianapolis. . . . the fact they were ultimately doomed to extinction by the monocoque, engine-as-a-stressed-member imports is beside the point, for all the advantages of the new breed interlopers they were never surpassed in their sheer voluptuously brutal beauty. In my estimations no open wheeled race cars have ever come close, not even the Italians with their F1 Grand Prix rigs of the same period. Below are just two examples that conclusively prove my case . . . . personal preference you say, bah humbug say I.