Those who worship at the altar of the Snake will kneel and genuflect, but was it ever a real car?This prototype is the only 427 Cobra Daytona Coupe in existence. Following the successful campaign of the small block Cobra Daytona Coupes in 1964,...
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Whoever won the battle to own this car spent an absolutely scandalous amount of money to do so, presumably because the car is so historicallyimportantIn April of 1964 the Ford GT40 was unveiled to the automotive press, and the journalists and in...
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The car was like a snappy retort delivered after the party was over-clever, but presented to an empty roomFollowing on the success of Wilbur Shaw's win in his Maserati Tipo 8CTF at the Indianapolis 500 in May 1939, the Maserati factory was confi...
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I couldn't keep away from the white GTA on the showroom floor, admiring it like it was a Playboy centerfoldThis striking Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA is documented as the car in which future Ferrari and Alfa Romeo T33 sports-prototype star Andrea de Ad...
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The over-the-top factory team cars like the Lotus 27 and Lola Mk 5 were the reason Formula Junior died offPowered by JAP and Manx Norton motorcycle engines, Cooper's innovative mid-engined racing cars dominated the 500-cc Formula 3 scene in the ...
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Most vintage racers are somewhere between intimidated and scared to death of actually driving a turbocharged Indy car-and for good reasonThe CART series has long been America's premier open wheel racing series, and with multiple championships, t...
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Alternate terms for these quirky cars are \"full of personality,\" \"individualistic,\" and various other ways you'd go about describing a blind dateWhen the Lancia Flavia was first presented to the public at the Turin Motor Show of 1960, most p...
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There's something romantic about cars that signify the end of an era, the last and greatest of their kind, yet doomed by the coming revolutionThe year was 1961. Jim Hall was an ambitious young man from Midland, TX, who had done well in oil and w...
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Your 16-year-old son would probably be happy lighting incense in front of it and inviting his friends over to worshipFew cars in the history of the American automobile have captured the imagination of car enthusiasts like the Dodge Viper. What s...
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In the late '60s there just wasn't anything badder than a 427 Cobra, and the fact that they were rumored to kill an abnormally high percentage of people who dared to drive them only increased the reputationAlthough the 289 Cobra was well proven ...
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If you can hustle one of these babies around the track, nobody will ever question your manhoodThe Can-Am Series for unlimited sports cars began in 1966, and a year later Bruce McLaren won his first championship, driving a car bearing his own nam...
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The U.S. MG distributors were hoping to put a gleam in the eye of the dentist from Columbus, who might imagine his car out there running with the Ferraris and PorschesSebring in 1964 was one of the world's top-tier endurance races, part of the F...
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Chevron B16s are just about the coolest, most beautiful, fastest little fantasy of a race car that you can get your hands onOnly 23 Chevron B16s were built and today they are universally praised by their drivers for handling, performance, and-mo...
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Few race cars have made such a serious strike for female equality-Pat Moss and Ann Wisdom took an overall victory in the most difficult rally of the time in this HealeyBritish Motor Corporation's Austin-Healey marque introduced the new 3000 mo...
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Of course, there is no experience like driving an F1 car: The sound, the incredible horsepower, the ridiculous braking ability, and the sheer competence of the chassis combine into sensory overload of the best sortWhen Jody Scheckter won the For...
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