"Silver Clouds" reviewed in Automobile

Late last year, I sent copy of my limited edition book "Silver Clouds: The 1934 Grand Prix season" to Jean Jennings, President and Editor-in-hief of Automobile magazine to get her impressions.

Just before Christmas, Jean called me to interview me about my book. She asked very good, detailed questions about it, and it was a great interview.

On Tuesday, the March issue came out on the newsstands, and the review was published in Jean's column "Vile Gossip", which is always the last page sign-off of the magazine.

As you can read, the review is wonderful, with Jennings really capturing all the subtle elements and the "raison d'être" of the book.

Now, I'm more eager than ever to start book #2 of my series on a significant year from each Grand Prix decade. This next one will cover the 1986 Grand Prix season.

The Automotive Word from the East

In the latest Automobile magazine (December 2011), one of my favorite automotive journalists Jamie Kitman makes an interesting journey through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, cruising in a new Jaguar XJ.

On his travels, he meets up with an old friend of his Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who happens to be the President of Estonia.

Along the way, he also met with a friend of mine, journalist/writer/engineer Margus-Hans Kuuse; he even provides a sidebar into to Margus-Hans in his feature.

Margus-Hans is the main info source of all things automotive in Eastern Europe, and has been that source since the Soviet era of the early 70’s. 

A couple of years ago, Margus-Hans used my Cevert portrait in a story of his, and I’ve since had the honour of being counted as one of his numerous friends.

It’s wonderful that this amazing pillar of automotive journalism be recognized for his groundbreaking work. Bravo!