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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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The Whooshmobile Turns 50
Its turbine engine, adapted from helicopter use, made a mere fraction of the noise that a piston engine produces, emitting a high-pitched whine that led to the “Whooshmobile” nickname. The car’s paint was a brilliant red-orange, and Granatelli’s crew wore eye-popping STP-logoed coveralls.
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JFN Studios
Specializing in automotive & race car art, Joel F. Naprstek provides freelance illustration, commissioned paintings, T-shirt & poster art in a bold, colorful style, covering a wide range of subject matter and genres. Joel has been a freelance illustrator for over 25...
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Remembering “Pelican Joe”
Joe Leonard, who died on April 27 at the age of 84, was best known for having made nine consecutive starts at the Indy 500 in the years 1965 – 1973, claiming the 1968 pole position in the STP Turbine, and earning the season-long Indycar championship in both 1971 and 1972.
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The Great of the Furious
After eight films and nearly two decades, I have finally figured out how to watch the movies in the Fast and Furious franchise.
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In the U.S., summer is prime car show season, giving rise to a sense of anticipation and enthusiasm of the local and large-scale events that are held during this period. Car enthusiasts in other countries undoubtedly experience the same feelings, but none more so than in what intuitively may be an unlikely location: Sweden. The land and people that gave us the niche brand Saab along with Volvo, producer of the original yuppie status symbol, are avid show attendees.
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Crown Classics & Exotics - Ventura, CA
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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.
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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