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Celebrity Drive: Joe Mantegna, star of CBS’s “Criminal Minds”
When actor Joe Mantegna isn’t driving his red 1970 Opel GT to the set of CBS’s “Criminal Minds,” he’s usually at his Burbank restaurant, Taste Chicago (where Jay Leno sometimes stops by in one of his cars), or entering his restored 1947 Buick Special Series Model 41 in local car shows. Read the rest of this entry »
Ford Mustang II II – Five Future Mustangs We’d Like to See – Car and Driver
Ford Mustang II II We wouldn’t blame you for double-checking your calendars, since it sure seems like the early ’70s all over again. High fuel prices have every manufacturer clambering to produce more-fuel-efficient vehicles, effectively ending an era of unrestrained gas guzzling and transforming a raging horsepower war into more of a horsepower squabble. Heck, we’ve been thinking about breaking out the bell-bottoms and a vinyl copy of
Ben Collins: What I’d Do Differently – Car and Driver
C/D : So let’s start at the beginning. You didn’t start racing until you were 19?
BC: That’s right. My first taste was at the Silverstone driving school in England, in a single-seater. I had a few pretty wild spins in it, but when I got a lap together, I was under the record time for that car and my instructor told my dad I should go racing.
C/D : You had the speed and you drove alongside people who’ve made it to the top, including Mark Webber and Scott Dixon. So why did your single-seater career stall? Read the rest of this entry »