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The Broken Road
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When I was in high school, my parents did what any sensible family living in the District of Columbia did in the 80s: they fled to the suburbs. In a city where you couldn’t even guarantee the picking up of dead bodies, let alone the picking up of the trash, the promise of a remotely…
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Kabuki! Turbo! Questionable chassis rigidity! Nissan Cedric for '84.
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Among the automotive casualties of the Malaise Era, the four-door hardtop is probably one of the least mourned. Born with the ’55 Buicks and Oldsmobiles and died with the ’78 Chrysler fullsizers, the idea of a B-pillar bereft saloon (and occasional wagon) made family cars measurably cooler, but as the Naderites were all too eager…
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Synth Music and A Kidney Bean Oval? Must be Trenton Speedway!
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You know what’s missing from modern oval racing? Right turns! The old Trenton Speedway, in Trenton, N.J., featured a bend in the starboard direction (known simply as “the Dogleg”) from 1968 until it closed in 1980. These are the opening laps of the April 23, 1978 200 mile USAC Indy car race as shown on…