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The Race of Gentlemen – A Race for the Ages
The Race of Gentlemen is a visceral, sensory event. One didn’t attend the show, they experienced it. The revving of engines on the line seemed to reverberate through the wild, excited crowd. Hot sun baked our skin, vintage, boozy root beer cooled our throats.
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Detroit Autorama
For a long, long time, American gearheads have held the tradition of hot rodding and customization close to their hearts – If there is one show you absolutely have to check out to see the best of the best in this part of the automotive world, it’s the annual Detroit Autorama.
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The Indianapolis Not-Quite-Nine
When the checkered flag waves over the winner of the 100th Indianapolis 500 this Sunday, it will, as is customary, signify the end of the race. But it was not always so.
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An Ode to Harley Earl and the Concept Car
For more than a few generations of car enthusiasts, it has gone without saying that the new year will bring about beauties and beasts from all corners of the car industry – We can thank Harley Earl for that.
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For Want of a Nail, the Jeep was Lost
A shortage of steering wheels threw a wrench into production of the Jeep Cherokee and the Grand Cherokee this week, with production shifts being canceled or shortened at Fiat Chrysler’s Toledo North Assembly Plant in Ohio and the Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit.
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The Little Microcars That Could (Almost)
It’s hard not to respect, and in some cases, love, the microcars with which we might be less familiar, the strangely shaped and quirky, the underpowered and slow. In some ways, they were ahead of their time, better on gas, lighter, and more efficient, and because of that, now seems as good a time as any to pay them the homage they deserve.
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Aussie Grit (Your Teeth to Read This Book)
Mark Webber is many things. He’s a success story, an incredible inspiration, a racecar driver who defied the odds over and over, a small boy from rural Australia who rose the ranks, and more. He’s all these things, but he’s not a writer.
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Englishtown Report
On April 15 we visited the Spring Swap Meet at Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, for the first time in many years. This year’s event was the 34th annual edition and to judge by things at Englishtown, eBay and the internet have not killed off swap meets.
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Opening Night in America
As the weather turns warmer, race tracks across the country awaken from a wintertime nap to launch a new season of competition, and what played out this past Saturday at Wall Stadium in New Jersey is just one example.
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New York in a Nutshell
Despite the obsession everyone has autonomous technology, and the green tech talk that is becoming less newsworthy by the day, there was nothing concrete that could solidify the companies to a theme this year, except for this: hope for the future.
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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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