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Amelia Island Concours in Review
I’m doomed to remain an automotive dilettante rather than an expert. If this were college, I’d be the perpetual undergraduate, always trying out a new course, unable to just settle on and complete a major. If you can relate, let me tell you: the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance is the event for you.
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Celebrating 50 Years of the Ford Mustang
The Fairlane Committee began working on a car for America’s youth. It would be sporty, aesthetically pleasing, affordable, and unique. It would challenge the two-seater racing European models that World War II vets had fallen in love with overseas. It would go on to celebrate its fiftieth birthday in April of 2014, as the longest consistently produced American car in history. It was the Ford Mustang.
read moreNo NHTSA Recall for Stalling Chrysler Minivans
This week the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration concluded an investigation into stalling problems in older Chrysler and Dodge minivans, and despite confirming the existence of the condition, NHTSA did not order a recall. The reason? That the defect would not likely lead to crashes.
read moreThe T-Bird That Almost Made it to the Moon
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of Congress the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American to the Moon. The President turned to several leading American corporations for help, including the Ford Motor Company. So along with top scientists at NASA, Ford began top secret work on a modified vehicle that could be brought to, and driven on, the moon.
read moreThe End of Clarkson’s Top Gear
Top Gear will still be good. It’ll still be fantastic, with its quirk and humor, and the novel length magazines, and all that makes it what it is. But it won’t be the Top Gear that we know, simply because it can’t be.
read moreTop Gear Host Jeremy Clarkson fired by the BBC
The BBC has confirmed that Top Gear Host Jeremy Clarkson has been sacked. The individual most closely associated with the world’s most popular car guy television program has been shown the door.
read moreJet Dragsters at NHRA National Events in 2015
It has been announced that Hanna Motorsports’ jet-powered funny cars, the “GOJO Firebird” and the XLERATOR “Top Secret” Firebird, will be appearing at four NHRA National Events in 2015.
read moreAtlantic City Car Show 2015 Review
Four years have passed since I’ve last been to the Atlantic City Car Show, but despite how desperate I was for a winter car show, I was disappointed.
read moreDreams 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.
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Editorial
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Many products from the fabled Studebaker Corporation that span the company’s rich automotive history have appeared in the Pebble Beach Concours. However, one illustrious member of the company’s product line has been conspicuously absent from the show field. That situation will change in 2026 with the acceptance of a 1964 Avanti R3 as the first of the entire line to compete for Best Of Show.
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Review: Pebble Beach Auctions presented by Gooding Christie's, Monterey Car Week 2025
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Review: Exotics on Broadway, Monterey Car Week 2025
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Review: Concours d'Lemons, Monterey Car Week 2025
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Review: Peninsula Cars & Coffee, Monterey Car Week 2025
Motorama
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Many products from the fabled Studebaker Corporation that span the company’s rich automotive history have appeared in the Pebble Beach Concours. However, one illustrious member of the company’s product line has been conspicuously absent from the show field. That situation will change in 2026 with the acceptance of a 1964 Avanti R3 as the first of the entire line to compete for Best Of Show.
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In 1925, Hudson’s subsidiary Essex Motor Company decided to capitalize on aviation’s appeal to promote a new six-cylinder model in its popular Essex line by sending an example on a three-month nationwide tour via airplane. The proposed aircraft, the new Remington-Burnelli RB-2, was the first dedicated cargo airplane. It designer, Vincent Burnelli, hoped to leverage the tour’s publicity to help to sell the unconventional aircraft to conservative aviation customers.
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Plymouth's Savoy was a popular police vehicle from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s. A beautiful example of a 1964 model owned by the San Jose California Police Department is at the scene of a freak aircraft accident that disrupted the tranquility of a local suburban neighborhood.
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Shell Oil aired a commercial in 1997 of a speeding Ferrari F310 seemingly being refueled from an aircraft as a component of its then-current campaign entitled “The Future Is In The Making.” The campaign was developed to emphasize Shell’s obsession with developing innovative solutions to satisfy customer’s current and future fuel needs.
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How did an airplane end up on a car dealer’s lot? Pilots are generally fervent about only selling an aircraft to someone within the flying community. In the case of one Piper Cub being traded toward a new car, it is safe to say that passion was overruled by a greater need.
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