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  • CENTOMIGLIA DEL LARIO 72° EDIZIONE

    Winning is EverythingWe won, and we don’t see a problem with that. Back in 1949 at the inaugural Centomiglia del Lario—the storied powerboat race ...

  • My Life With “The Bully,” or What It Costs to Run the Apache Warpath

    Jay Triandafilou recounts his over ten years of ownership of the Apache Warpath exclusively to Véhicule.“I purchased the boat in approximately 199...

  • Véhicule Presents: The Untold Story of Italian Cigarette Smuggling Part 2

    Smugglers on the mountain crests between Switzerland and Italy. Based on an interview with Tullio Abbate and Véhicule publisher Christopher Kippe...

  • Véhicule Presents: The Untold Story of Italian Cigarette Smuggling Part 1

    The blue hulls were particular types of boats, which Neapolitan crime used to smuggle cigarettes, the "blondes" as they were called in Naples. The...

  • Don Aronow: King of Offshore Powerboating

    With the help of two veteran boatbuilders, Don quickly transformed his young company into a true force to be reckoned with, largely by following his creed that the only way to market boats properly was to have them win races…

  • Don Aronow: The Formative Years

    Donald Joel Aronow was born on March 3, 1927 and grew up in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn back when the borough was largely farmland. He grew up rich, but that didn’t last…

  • Juan Almeida of Netflix's Operation Odessa on Véhicule Magazine

    Fort Apache was nothing short of addictive. It was magnetic. Even if you didn’t own a boat, you would be drawn in by the lifestyle and the indispu...

  • Véhicule Magazine Presents: The Bicycle Club

    These days, The Bicycle Hotel and Casino is a respected Los Angeles-area staple. With considerably more than 100,000 square feet containing aroun...

  • Véhicule Magazine Presents: IMSA GP of Miami 1983

    In 1983, Miami came one step closer to becoming the United States' very own Monaco. It was nearly there—the waterfront, the climate and the wealth...

  • Juan Almeida's Submarine

    By Juan Almeida It was a bright sunny day when Jeff Soffer and his personal assistant Wayne appeared at the Fort. It wasn’t unusual for Jeff to v...

  • My Father the US Customs Agent, Part 2

    Perico In Paradise - A Miami Retrospective "Miami. What can I say? I'm from here. Born and raised, as many of you (my friends) know. I love Miami ...

  • You're Busted! My Father the US Customs Agent.

    "My parents were federal law enforcements agents (father, US Customs - mother, IRS) and were intimately involved in some of the highest profile cas...