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Dreams and Drivers: The Car Club Driven to Help
“We needed to be a car club that invited everybody,” Kaslar says. “There are people that love their cars and it doesn’t matter that I don’t like it. It matters that they like it, and they continue to teach their children the way, and they continue to share with their friends.”
read moreSlammin’ Sammy Swindell is Not Done Yet
Back in August championship-winning racer Sammy Swindell’s announced that he was retiring from winged sprint car racing – evidently the decision has been eating at him, because he has entered the United Sprint Car Series Frostbuster opener.
read moreMario Andretti, TQ Midget Racer
Most people know of Mario Andretti for his having won the Indianapolis 500 in 1969 or the Formula 1 World Championship in 1978. Racing fans also know of his upset victory in the 1967 Daytona 500 and his four Indycar series championships.
But it was on March 3, 1962, that Mario Andretti won what he later described as his “first victory of any consequence.”
read moreHigh Roller: BMW Announces a Rolls-Royce SUV
In the category of “now we’ve heard everything” comes the announcement that Rolls-Royce will develop an ultraluxury SUV.
read moreAAA, LeMans, USAC, and the Tragic Year of 1955
Sixty years ago, when the calendar flipped to begin 1955, the American Automobile Association began its 54th season as the major sanctioning body for auto racing in the United States.
AAA ran racing with an iron hand and drivers with aspirations of competing at the Indianapolis 500 were forced to work their way up the AAA sanctioned ladder of midget and sprint car events before receiving authorization from AAA officials to compete in the most prestigious race in the country.
read moreBreeding Out the Car Enthusiast
The most basic elements of owning and maintaining a car – specific to every single make and model on the road, oil and electricity and engines, and they are now slipping out of the reach of our clean, unstained fingers, in search of a modern, computerized type of car ownership.
read moreWill Electric Cars Replace Diesels in France?
France wants to rid its roads of old diesel cars – the country has announced that it is adjusting fuel taxes to be less favorable to diesel and offering a remarkable incentive to encourage owners of older diesels to buy electric cars.
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MINI Cooper’s Big Adventure
While the Mini Cooper line has managed amazing feats through cinema history, and proven a stalwart companion to the small city driver, it’s never gotten a chance to test its chops off-road, and, looking at the Mini Cooper Paceman Adventure, you have to wonder why.
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Rico Abreu and the Chili Bowl
Rico 2015We have been to the Chili Bowl previously, and are itching to return, but this year we had to settle for watching a live video stream. But even via the miniature speakers of an Ipad we could hear the crowd chanting Rico! Rico! Rico! after 2014 USAC champion Rico Abreu won the 29th running of the world’s largest indoor motor race.
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Has Your Jeep Been Recalled?
In June of 2013, 1.56 million 2002-2007 Jeep Liberty and 1993-1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee models were recalled, to mitigate a condition which can cause the vehicles to catch fire after being rear-ended – is yours one of them?
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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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