Issue 006 is in the mail. This month, we celebrate the story of Caffeine & Carburetors and the man behind it all, Doug Zumbach. What began as a local Cars & Coffee gathering outside Zumbach’s Coffee has grown into one of the most recognized enthusiast events in the country. Inside Issue 006, Roger Garbow traces that history and highlights the Automotive Assistance Fund, Doug’s charity helping repair vehicles for people in need. If you missed picking up a copy at Caffeine & Carburetors this weekend, you’ll find them at Zumbach’s Coffee all month long—while they last. Shop the post: petrolicious.com/collections…

Your dose of Sunday Serenity™, featuring the Shelby CSX-VNT carrying Carroll Shelby’s final vision. No music. No commentary. Just turbocharged experimentation, 1980s performance ambition, and a forgotten piece of Shelby history. Watch the full film: bit.ly/45OVo7H Drive Tastefully®⁠ Director: Tiziano Niero Featured: Alex Leventhal ⁠⁠ #Petrolicious #DriveTastefully #SundaySerenity

There’s a certain sound that belongs only to old Lamborghinis. A 5.7-liter naturally aspirated V12 sitting inches behind your head. Forty-eight valves singing through the trees with nothing muting the experience except distance. In the Diablo VT, that sound still traces its roots back to Giotto Bizzarrini’s original Lamborghini V12 architecture from 1963, an engine born from Ferruccio’s desire to challenge Ferrari on both the road and the track. Before refinement became the priority, Lamborghini built cars that felt slightly untamed. The Diablo VT came from that era. Low, dramatic, mechanical, and unapologetically loud in a way modern performance cars rarely are anymore. Watch the film: bit.ly/4aIWGmW Drive Tastefully®⁠ 📸: Paolo Lekai 🏎️: OTS & Co / Derek Tam-Scott #Petrolicious #DriveTastefully

Your dose of Sunday Serenity™, featuring a rare Alfa Romeo Autodelta Giulietta Turbodelta far from the spotlight. No music. No commentary. Just turbocharged ambition, homologation-era engineering, and the unmistakable soul of vintage Alfa Romeo. Drive Tastefully®⁠ Watch the full film: bit.ly/4twkulq Director: Alessandro Bianchi Featured: Massimo Migliazzo ⁠⁠ #Petrolicious #DriveTastefully #SundaySerenity

There’s a version of car culture that existed long before algorithms, coffee meetups, and polished social media posts. A version built in cold garages, under streetlights, with borrowed tools and friends who stayed late to help finish the job. That’s the world John Roman is fighting to preserve at Ground Level Garage in Brooklyn. Inside his shop, old Japanese street cars are still tuned by ear. Customers are taught how to work on their own cars. Friends walk through the door and immediately start helping however they can. Nothing is precious. Everything gets driven. Watch the full film: bit.ly/4flL6S6 Directed By: Jacob Hopkins Featuring: John Roman (Ground Level) #DriveTastefully #Petrolicious

What started as a simple Monterey scouting trip quickly turned into a full-blown analog adventure centered around a worn, manual-swapped BMW E23 discovered through the Overcrest community. Instead of renting a car, the journey embraced the unpredictable charm of old cars, backroad friendships, tire hunts, and the kind of imperfect road-trip storytelling modern cars rarely create anymore. Drive Tastefully®⁠ Read more at petrolicious.com Written and shot by Kris Clewell ⁠ #Petrolicious #DriveTastefully

Hans Herrmann rose from helping rebuild his family’s café business in postwar Stuttgart to becoming one of endurance racing’s greatest drivers. Nicknamed “Lucky Hans,” he built a legendary career with Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, famously driving under a closing railroad crossing during the 1954 Mille Miglia and later winning Le Mans in 1970 aboard the iconic Porsche 917K. After finally delivering Porsche its first overall Le Mans victory, Herrmann immediately retired at 42, honoring a promise to his wife that he would walk away if he won the race. His legacy extends far beyond the victories, remembered not only for his fearless talent but for understanding when it was time to leave the sport behind. Hans Herrmann, 1928–2026 Drive Tastefully®⁠ Read more at petrolicious.com Written by: Kris Clewell Photos by: Porsche ⁠ #Petrolicious #DriveTastefully

Your dose of Sunday Serenity, where the Ferrari F355 meets the romance of Paris. No music. No commentary. Just timeless Italian craftsmanship surrounded by timeless culture. Drive Tastefully®⁠ Watch the full film: bit.ly/4v9q4eW Directed by: Maxence Massaro Featured: Alexis Parenty ⁠⁠ #Petrolicious #DriveTastefully #SundaySerenity

Ethan Moore can stand in a doorway and name a Maserati A6G by sight. It was a Bay Area shop he had been meaning to check out. He drove over, found the door open, and stood at it, naming what he saw to himself: a Ferrari 250 California Spider, a Fiat 8V Supersonic, a Maserati A6G. His boss-to-be, Rafi Najarian, was working on a Jaguar E-Type. Rafi saw him, waved him in, and after listening to a teenager freak out over the contents of his shop, asked Ethan if he wanted a job. “Hell yeah,” he said. His own car is a built 1995 BMW E36 M3. The E36 M3 followed the legendary E30, and for a lot of people it has been the first real sports car, the one that gets you in the door. “This car is just absolutely glued to the road,” he says. “It does what I want it to do, and that’s something that’s very hard to find in a lot of cars.” He lives around back roads and mountain roads. The E36 goes out every weekend. Watch the full film: bit.ly/3RAQ9nU Directed By: Paolo Lekai #DriveTastefully #Petrolicious

Your dose of Sunday Serenity™, featuring the Röhrl Ascona carrying the weight of rally history. No music. No commentary. Just vintage rally endurance pushed to its absolute limit. Drive Tastefully®⁠ Watch the full film: bit.ly/4m0paxg Director/Editor: Matthias Wagner Music & sound: P.K. Stephan Produced by: Unframed Films Photography by: Jonas Eiden ⁠⁠ #Petrolicious #DriveTastefully #SundaySerenity

Every system that touches you is built to take a decision off your plate. Phones have taken over, cars stay between the lines, refrigerators order groceries, and most of us don't notice anymore. Justin Cashmore noticed. His answer was a 1960 Renault Dauphine with no power steering, no power brakes, no traction control, and a supercharged Porsche VR6 behind the seats. He calls it Le Brute. The chassis is cage-stiffened. The shifter throws backwards from convention with a bike handlebar grip for a knob, and the whole car is right-hand drive because he wanted it that way. Justin used to ride sport bikes but stopped when his daughter was born. He needed the visceral hit back with something around him. Le Brute was the answer. Drive Tastefully®⁠ ⁠ Watch the full film: bit.ly/42LlYN9 ⁠ Director: Tiziano Niero Featured: Justin Cashmore #DriveTastefully #Petrolicious

The Venturi 400 GT remains one of the automotive world’s best-kept secrets, a raw French-built supercar that embodied the same uncompromising spirit as the Ferrari F40. Developed from Venturi’s one-make racing series, the ultra-lightweight machine paired twin-turbo V6 power, aggressive aero, and a stripped-back driving experience into a road car built with pure motorsport intent. With only a handful of street-legal examples ever produced, the 400 GT has become an almost mythical figure among collectors and enthusiasts. Its rarity, analog character, and overlooked legacy represent a forgotten era when small manufacturers could still challenge the world’s biggest supercar names through passion, engineering, and sheer audacity. Drive Tastefully®⁠ Read more: bit.ly/4tPqV2z Written by David Marvier ⁠ #Petrolicious #DriveTastefully

Your dose of Sunday Serenity™, showcasing the well-worn charm of a race-proven Volkswagen GTI. No music. No commentary. Just a lifelong relationship between driver, machine, and the open track. Drive Tastefully®⁠ Watch the full film: bit.ly/40fy4g8 Director: Tiziano Niero Featured: Travis Washay ⁠⁠ #Petrolicious #DriveTastefully #SundaySerenity

Ralph Guglielm bought this 1965 Volkswagen Beetle out of the woods above Boulder Creek for $1,500 after it had been abandoned between a breakup. The shift linkage was broken, the coil was dead, and the drive home to Santa Cruz happened entirely in second gear. Now the same car lives as a Baja-converted Herbie tribute that has somehow found its way onto frozen lakes in Montana, rally stages in Utah, and into the middle of one of the strangest enthusiast communities imaginable. For Ralph, the Beetle became the thing that pushed him out of safe decisions and into the kind of life his aunt always told him to chase: one where you ask first and figure the rest out later. This is a story about underdogs, bad ideas, analog driving, and why an old Volkswagen still makes people smile sixty years later. Drive Tastefully®⁠ Watch the full film: bit.ly/4ubX5Ge Directed by: Paolo Lekai #DriveTastefully #Petrolicious

Your dose of Sunday Serenity™, featuring the Fiat 8V Supersonic in its purest form. No music. No commentary. Just the sound of Italian artistry pushing the boundaries of performance and design. Drive Tastefully®⁠ Watch the full film: bit.ly/4sxWLBo Featured: Tucker Watson Directed by: Tiziano Niero ⁠⁠ #Petrolicious #DriveTastefully #SundaySerenity

In 1975, Dan Rowzie sat on the roof of the Red Ball Garage in Manhattan waiting for the Cannonball clock to start. The car was a Porsche 911 fitted with an IROC engine. The target was Brock Yates and Dan Gurney’s cross-country record: New York to Redondo Beach at an average of eighty miles an hour. They didn’t beat it. But Rowzie still believes their thirty-eight hour and thirty-nine minute run remains the fastest Porsche time of any official Cannonball. Today he’s eighty-eight years old and still spending time with a Burgundy 1968 911 in his garage. Vintage race motor. Roll cage. Good taste. “There’s a lot of feedback and spirit,” he says, “that’s missing in the later heavier cars.” Drive Tastefully®⁠ ⁠ Watch the full film: bit.ly/3RdPxEp ⁠ Director: Tiziano Niero Featured: Dan Rowzie #DriveTastefully #Petrolicious #FilmFriday

Across two days at Goodwood Motor Circuit, the 83rd Members’ Meeting unfolded as a full spectrum of motorsport, where cars built decades apart were pushed to their limits in the same space. The Protheroe Cup highlighted the enduring appeal of the Jaguar E-Type, while the Super Tourer shootout brought a more modern edge, rooted in cars that once mirrored everyday road machines. Alongside it all, the presence of a championship-winning Formula 1 car served as a reminder of how quickly innovation can reshape the sport. At Goodwood, those moments are not separated by time, they exist together, continuing forward. Drive Tastefully®⁠ Read more at petrolicious.com 📸 Jathu Thillai ⁠ #Petrolicious #DriveTastefully

Your dose of Sunday Serenity™, where a Subaru 22B never forgot where it came from. No music. No commentary. Just the sound of rally history settling in. Drive Tastefully®⁠ Watch the full film: bit.ly/4tL8Ymk Directed by: Ben Adams ⁠⁠ #Petrolicious #DriveTastefully #SundaySerenity

Just a Ferrari 365 GT4 BB ripping through a forest. Five liters of mid-engine flat-twelve, the rarer of Ferrari's twelves, and a sound most people have only ever read about. Drive Tastefully®⁠ ⁠ Watch the full film: bit.ly/4cVUuZT ⁠ Director: Paolo Lekai #DriveTastefully #Petrolicious #FilmFriday

Your dose of Sunday Serenity™, a lightweight finding its place at the top. No music. No commentary. Just the sound of an underdog rising. Drive Tastefully®⁠ Watch the full film: bit.ly/3P4ks4S Featured: Quentin Leblond (navigator), Valentin Simonet (driver) Directed by: Maxence Massaro Special Credits to: Hamdi Ben Lagha Lucas Pariset Thomas Joncquel Balthazar Jullien Ugo Missana ⁠⁠ #Petrolicious #DriveTastefully #SundaySerenity