By Roger Boylan 

In November 2009, Autosavant published a short piece of mine entitled “Dmitri Nabokov, Car Guy” about the cars in the life of Dmitri, son of the great writer Vladimir Nabokov, and himself a man of letters, noted car buff, and former racing driver. For the article I used mostly generic photographs, obtained online, of the models of cars referred to in accounts by him and various interviewers. Then, shortly thereafter, I entered into correspondence with Mr. Nabokov on this and other subjects, and he sent me what amounts to a family album of the cars of his life: a gesture typical of the generosity that has characterized his part in my dealings with him. 

I have included his photographs in this short addendum to the previous piece. They and their captions are Dmitri Nabokov’s; the bracketed insertions, mine. 

My very first car, a pedal-powered Mercedes 

1959, Triumph TR-3A (my first race, in Monza) 

My dear mother [Véra Nabokov] with the Bizzarrini Strada 

My Alfa GTZ at the Parabolica curve, Monza 

My turquoise 1957 MGA 

Four of my cars in Switzerland: Ferrari 348 TB, Ferrari 456 GT, Viper, my second Ferrari 308 (GTBi Quattrovalvole) 

My first red Viper RT-10 

The Triumph again, in San Remo, with my parents [Véra and Vladimir Nabokov], aunt, and cousin 

The last of my four Vipers, a rare GT2, of which 100 were built to celebrate Viper’s GT championship 

The 308 GTBi with radio-controlled helicopter on the roof 

The 348 TB near my place in Montreux 

The first of my two MG TCs 

My mother with my first Ferrari 308 

My last Ferrari 308 (GTBi Quattrovalvole)