Couple more steering wheels at work... The Packard wheel feels like it weights about 12 lbs!

American Road Racing The 1930s & American Road Racing: 1948-1950 The Sport Revived

Tazio Nuvolari... (the Flying Mantuan)  The cup looks bigger than him...  Nuvolari started out racing motorcycles (like John Surtees later...)

Part 13 of 16: Best of France & Italy Car Show and swap @ Woodley Park -- November 1, 2015 (Sunday)

Lancia Aurelia...  The car I most wanted to drive away with from the show...

Top 5 best gauges and steering wheel of all time...

Marina Del Rey -- November 8, 2015 (Sunday)

This is a catamaran type of sail boat and the the picture is of the front of the boat...

Part 6 & Last: From the French & Italian Car Show

Brake Drum from a 50's Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Veloce.  The drum is alloy with a steel liner for the pad contact surface and a steel reinforcement for the area that meets the hub/wheel...  Overall, it's very light (compared to cast iron drums that I've picked up before...).  Very nicely cast and designed/finned...

It's been "cleaned" and a protectant has been applied (keep the steel parts from corroding).  Don't know what I'll do with it yet...  Wall display?  Base for something?

Carlo Demand & Mark Donohue

Part 12 of 16: Best of France & Italy Car Show and swap @ Woodley Park -- November 1, 2015 (Sunday)

Austin-Healey 3000 with an Alfa Engine (next picture)

Books recently purchased from the "Last Book Store" in Downtown Los Angeles

http://lastbookstorela.com/

This appears to be a factory official item.  Pretty slick and glossy book/glorified broshure...

This is the second edition of this book (I have a copy of the first one that I bought used but it didn't come with the soundtrack CD.  This one does...) printed in 2010, I think...

This one is pretty obscure in that it's about Vespa production and promotion for scooters build in the UK (didn't know that they had a factory in the UK...).