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Frank Bacon's 1947 FB-500
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[The above image and following text is adapted from Unique Cars & Parts’s “Car Spotters’ Handbook,” and is reprinted here with their kind permission – Ed.] After World War II ended, British car enthusiasts could once again seek out something spirited to drive. But these were still hard years, and money (and petrol) still hard…
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Art Monday- Junior Achiever
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Milan Kunera’s book and its film adaptation The Unbearable Lightness of Being centers around the lives of four individuals during the Prague Spring and subsequent Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. It’s too bad it wasn’t about race cars, because that would have been a lot more interesting, and this 1957 Stanguellini Formula Junior would have…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Monterey California Weekend Review
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Yes it was quite a weekend on the Monterey Peninsula last weekend, with the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, The Mecum at Monterey Classic Car Auction, The Monterey Historic Races (since renamed), the Concorso Italiano, and of course the Concours d’LeMons. Unfortunately, I wasn’t anywhere near California to cover the events, but there were other sites…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Bonneville Speed Week Review via BangShift
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It seems that this point in August that Automotive Gods converge, as there are a number of events that are not only historic, but must attend events if you are an automobile enthusiast. Last week we saw all the doings at Monterrey, California including: The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the Concorso Italiano, the Rolex Monterey…
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Vintage Aussie Racing To Get You To The Weekend
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Having a rough Friday? Wearily watching the clock, counting down the minutes until you’re set free to enjoy your weekend? Well if it makes you feel any better, I’m sitting on the couch drinking coffee and Bailey’s today. What’s that you say? It didn’t help? Strange. Well then perhaps The Incomparable Mr. Scroggs can help,…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: 1959 Fiat 682/RN2 Bartoletti Open-Deck Race Transporter
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Imagine arriving at an historic race with your vintage Ferrari on this instead of in an enclosed trailer. It can happen, as Automotive Traveler’s Rich Truesdell discovered recently, and it can be yours if you have the scratch. Read more after the jump.
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Last Call – Who Says the French Are a Bunch of Wimps? Edition
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It takes real couilles to rally a Citroen DS through the snow during the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally, while smoking a cigarette and looking completely nonchalant about the whole affair. Lucien Bianchi (an Italian-born Belgian, actually), my hat’s off to you. May those filthy Americans and rosbifs never insult the glorious mère patrie again! La…
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Flying Nurburgring Racers Save the Day!
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The word “awesome” is overused far too often. This is not one of those times.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Group 6 Baja Cars makes us Crazy
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While cruising around BangShift this past week, I spotted this article by Brian Lohnes about a class of Baja Racing Machines that are largely forgotten today. While BangShift was covering the Extreme Outlaw 250 Desert Race in Reno, one of the most outrageous and infamous of these cars appeared fully restored. Of course, this discovery…
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History Road 2010: Simplificate and Add Lightness — The Prequel
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Years before Colin B. Chapman, CBE, instituted his oft-stated mantra of “simplify and add lightness”, that mentality was in wide use during the 1920s and 30s amongst those few brave souls willing to undertake the sport of auto racing. In fairness, those lads may have taken it significantly further. They may also have had balls…