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Won’t Come Back From Dead Man’s Curve (Because You’ll Want to Stay All Year)
But, in the world of racing and classic cars, boldness and aggression often pay off, and this year’s Dead Man’s Curve Car Show, hosted at the Mahwah Sheraton this past weekend, certainly did. Without a doubt, the event this year surpassed all the iterations that had come before and played a true and dangerous competitor to Lead East.
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This Week in Motorhead History – Maria Teresa de Filippis Breaks Barriers in F1
On August 24, 1958, Maria Teresa de Filippis, who had broken one of motorsport’s biggest barriers by becoming the first woman to ever compete in Formula One, raced her third event of the year in a Maserati at the Portuguese Grand Prix at Oporto.
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Test Track Tease at Disney
Too much time was spent on the aerodynamic lines and tire choices and engine configuration, and at the end of our 120 seconds, we had an orange Dune Buggy meets Subaru meets 1920s Bugatti looking monstrosity in bright orange.
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Volvo? More Like Volv-E
Volvo has now joined their ranks. Announcing the decision to phase out models reliant on an internal combustion engine and produce a line of cars that focus on electrification at the core by their 2019 lineup, embracing fully electric, plug in hybrid and mild hybrid cars.
They are the first consumer car brand to make the move.
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Should the Manuals be Saved?
It’s a campaign begun years ago, as automatic transmissions began to become standard equipment on new cars, replacing, um, standard transmissions. “Save the Manuals” is the rallying cry.
But I don’t buy into it.
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In Praise of the First Year Car Show
This might sound a little sacrilegious, but bear with me. Sometimes, long-running car shows are boring.
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Gentleman Racing into the New Car Hobby
That is exactly what The Race of Gentlemen or TROG proprietors are aiming for, a carnival like atmosphere with vintage canvas tents, attire suggestions and specific requirements for all cars and bikes racing out on the beach.
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The New Frontier (Museum)
We chatted with Jeff Wandler, owner of The Frontier Auto Museum in Wyoming, to talk business, vintage toys and classic car nostalgia!
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The Greenwich Concours d’Elegance – Same Dynasty, New Blood
GREENWICH, CT – June 3rd and 4th marked the 21st anniversary of the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance in Roger Sherman Baldwin Park, a car show dedicated to the most elegant, most influential and most beautiful cars history has to offer. Though rain threatened Saturday morning, eventually falling Sunday afternoon during an abridged award ceremony, the Concours was a resounding success.
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Across the Sound and Worlds Apart
Recently, members of the CarShowSafari team went off in different directions on the same day. Although only a body of water separated their destinations, that body of water was perhaps the only thing those destinations had in common. Here are the divergent stories.
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Editorial
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Murphy Auto Museum, Oxnard. CA
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This is a list of the Car Shows you will want to experience before you die.
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Moment of Decision: John's 1963 Corvette Resto-Mod: Choosing whether to Restore or Resto-Mod an older Corvette isn’t always easy.
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I have a certain appreciation for the Edsel. I was not quite six years old when the car was introduced, and as part of the introduction the dealers were offering an incentive: Come test-drive the new Edsel and receive a scale model of the car. My father took the test drive, and I got the scale model.
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Rat Rods and Concours winners
Motorama
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This third installment begins an exploration of Ford Motor Company’s involvement in also building airplanes during WWII by focusing on the story of its facility in Willow Run, MI.
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Henry Ford was able to indulge a long-standing interest in mass-producing airplanes when in 1941 the Ford Motor Company garnered a contract to produce complete B-24 bombers at a specially-built plant in Willow Run, MI.
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It may not be well-known but there is more history of automobile manufacturers who have also produced aircraft, of which Honda is only the most recent example.
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This St. Patrick’s Day, celebrate both Irish pride and the arrival of Spring by taking a drive in your 1959 Shamrock.
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On March 17, 1834, Gottlieb Daimler was born in Germany. Had he been born 100 years later, he would have seen an automotive industry the likes of which early automakers could hardly dare dream, and yet, had he been born 100 years later, that very auto industry might never have come to pass.
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