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"That used to be the title of this column, and this month it seems appropriate to be at the top of the page because our April issue has a variety of unusual features. The current by Executive Editor Douglas Kott is all about Mustangs. All sorts of Mustangs, from the V-6 convertible to the V-8 GT to a host of special versions, are corralled and ridden, but not tamed.   The has become an American-car icon since its debut in the spring of 1964. I was in college then and the Mustang was a big hit on campus with young car enthusiasts. It offered very different styling and a price that was not out of reach, once we graduated and found employment, that is. Later in the 1960s, Steve McQueen made the Mustang famous in the motion picture Bullitt, and racing giants like Parnelli Jones, Jerry Titus and George Follmer frequently drove the Mustang Trans-Am cars into the winner&amp;#039;s circle at road-racing circuits across the U.S. and Canada.   Over the years, Mustangs changed dramatically; sometimes not for the best (remember Mustang II?). But the new-for-2005 versions are terrific, with lots of style, performance, comfortable seating and improved interior room. And the handling characteristics are quite good too.   Museum Quality Cars   It&amp;#039;s very rare for Road &amp;amp;amp; Track to do a story about a car collection, but we delved into in this issue because some of his cars were selected for an exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum of Boston. And over the years we have published Salon features on some of his fabulous automobiles. The exhibition, Speed, Style and Beauty, runs until July 3 of this year. It&amp;#039;s a fine opportunity to see some truly sensational cars with significant histories. And we couldn&amp;#039;t resist sending Editor-at-Large John Lamm back to the East Coast to put together our story on six of the cars as seen through the eyes of some very knowledgeable car enthusiasts.   Let the Racing Begin   This month&amp;#039;s Sport column features our annual Formula 1 Drivers&amp;#039; Ratings by Contributing Editor Sam Posey. We are delighted that Sam has taken on this task for the past several years, and brought his keen perception to bear on the drivers who will make the upcoming season something worth watching. Posey, of course, was an excellent racing driver for many years, in most every kind of competition from Trans-Am to Can-Am to Indy and beyond. He later became the voice of Formula 1 television coverage on SpeedChannel for many years, along with Bob Varsha and David Hobbs.   Posey has also penned numerous stories for R&amp;amp;amp;T, and brings an erudite and entertaining writing style to our pages.   Longtime readers will recall that the F1 drivers&amp;#039; ratings were compiled for many years by Rob Walker, our dear friend and contributor who died in 2002. Rob was able to bring an insider&amp;#039;s view of the F1 circus, until the advent of televised Grands Prix made our six-week-old reports redundant.   We are nonetheless excited about the season that is just starting and anxious to see what develops with some of the new technical regulations outlined by F1 expert Adam Cooper in the Sport column. Who knows, perhaps someone will outperform Michael Schumacher and Ferrari this season.   Bill Pollack &amp;amp;amp; the Allard   I had the pleasure of enjoying dinner last summer with Bill Pollack and his wife, Bobbi, at Cypress Point Club in Pebble Beach. Bill is one of the foundation drivers of sports-car racing in America, and he has published one of the warmest and most interesting books about the sport. Red Wheels and White Sidewalls: Confessions of an Allard Racer is Bill&amp;#039;s very personal story of how he fell in love with sports-car racing.   The book is a delightful read and Bill rounded up inserts from a variety of people who were also involved in those early days, including Phil Hill, John Fitch, Mary Davis and a host of others. This truly is a labor of love and those who missed that era would be well served to lay hands on a copy of Red Wheels and White Sidewalls. It&amp;#039;s available through Brown Fox Books, 1090 Eugenia Place, Carpinteria, Calif. 93013; or . The price is $23.95, plus $3.00 for shipping and if you live in California you have to pony up the sales tax too. But Bill is a delightful storyteller who enjoyed so many exciting adventures that you will enjoy this book from start to finish. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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