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...Ccrvair Monza (6) 2-dr. hardtop...
Deep down, even the most Milquetoast driver occasionally imagines himself a Juan Fangio or Jimmy Clark, shifting down for the Curva Grande at Monza or roaring onto the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans. Few automakers play on this fancy so successfully as Milan's Alfa-Romeo. An ad for the sporty Giulia GT model, for instance, shows a father strapping on a crash helmet while his wife and child prepare to climb in. "The family car that wins races," proclaims the ad. Thanks to its fast cars and fanciful advertising, Alfa-Romeo is pulling ahead in the Italian auto...
Suits & More Suits. The Florida accident occurred in 1963, as State Legislators James T. Russell and David C. Anderson were driving home to St. Petersburg from a session of the legislature in Tallahassee. On U.S. Highway 19, Russell's 1962 Corvair Monza went out of control and overturned, hurling Anderson out the door. He died six days later...
...active competitor, to one degree or another, in the world's biggest participant sport. Nearly everyone who drives a car thinks, at one time or another, about beating the "hot shoe" in the next lane. Auto companies do their best to enhance the illusion: naming cars "Le Mans," "Monza," "G.T.O.," "Grand Prix"; equipping them with bucket seats, tachometers, four-speed transmissions, and speedometers thoughtfully calibrated up to 160 m.p.h.-85 m.p.h. above the highest legal speed limit...
Nothing, though, could have prepared him for what happened at Monza midway through the 1961 season, when the Ferrari of Germany's flamboyant Wolfgang von Trips swerved suddenly, with Jimmy's Lotus directly behind. For one horrible instant, the two cars touched at 150 m.p.h. The Ferrari hurtled up an embankment, ricocheted off a steel guardrail, sheared through a wire fence, and spun end over end, back onto the track. Clark leaped out of his crumpled Lotus and pushed Trips's car off the road. There was nothing he could do for Trips-or for 17 spectators...