The California Mille, a four-day, 1,000-mile homage to Italy’s historic Mille Miglia, will start off from the plaza in front of San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel Monday; and this year’s event is particularly bittersweet because for the first time in ages, its founder, Martin Swig, won’t be there. Mr. Swig died last July at his home in Sausalito, Calif., at the age of 78.
If there was ever an echt Car Guy, Martin Swig was it. He loved just about anything on wheels  … More