Re-Live The 1958 Alpine Rally

I’ve been obsessing over vintage rally films lately. There’s a bunch of them scattered all over the Youtube-verse. The cars, the driving, and the scenery is absolutely stunning. I can only imagine what it must have been like to tear through the mountains and around cliffs on skinny tires and with absolutely no driver aids whatsoever. The skills and shear guts it took to wheel an old car around the woods is impressive. Not that rally drivers have it any easier today, but it’s always fun to watch the heroes and legends of the past in action.

The Alpine Rally was held every year from 1952 to 1971. Watching car entries like the BMW 328 roadster, Lancia Flavia, and Alpine A110 being hustled around rocky cliffs had to be a sight to behold! Frenchman Bernard Consten won it in 1958 driving an Alfa Romeo Giulietta. Here’s one of my favorites from the 1958 Alpine Rally.

Mike Miessler

I inherited the "car gene" from my brother. He painted car models. I crashed them. After a short stint in college on an FSAE team, I realized that I'm better at fixing cars than I am at driving them. That took me around the U.S. and Canada playing with race cars of all sorts; Formula Fords, MX5 Cup cars, and Porsche Cup cars. For the last decade I've been lucky enough to meet great people, see awesome tracks, and get my hands dirty on a little bit of everything. Now I'm writing about cars. A little different from driving and working on them, but just as fun!