Bentley Motors is competing in the Mille Miglia next week with two of the company’s famous 4.5-Litre supercharged Blowers.
The 1930 Le Mans Team Car once owned by Sir Henry ‘Tim’ Birkin, one of the most celebrated members of a group of British gentlemen racers known as the Bentley Boys, will be joined by a former company demonstrator Blower with its original Vanden Plas Open, Sports Four Seater body for this renowned event. Even after nine decades on the road, this second Blower continues to de...
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SD-421 SUPER-DUTY PONTIAC: LIGHTWEIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT!
Swiss Cheese ’63 SD-421 Catalina is one of 14 factory built and held NHRA C/Stock record for a number of years.
As the 1962 drag season drew to a close, it was obvious that Pontiac’s position at the top of the Super/Stock hierarchy was weakening. Ford, Chrysler and Chevrolet were gaining on the Chiefs with bigger engines and an ever-increasing supply of special parts, including weight-saving aluminum components and body panels. Pontiac engineers knew they had to have a lighter, more p...
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’14 BMW M5: AGGRESSIVE LUXURY SEDAN!
Dan Scanlan test drives BMW’s uber-sedan boasting muscles and grace.
He really likes it!
Thirty years ago, BMW came up with a plan – embed a sports car in the skin of a family sedan. The result: a 3,500-pound M5 with a then-amazing 256-horsepower inline six where about 180-horsepower normally lived. It delivered a still-fast, impressive 0-60 mph sprint in way under seven seconds.
Fast forward to 2012, when the fifth generation M5 was introduced with 560-horsepower twin-turbo V-8 rep...
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BUICK GNX: THE GRAND NATIONAL TO END ALL GRAND NATIONALS!
Buick's GNX is one of the quickest, fastest and most legendary American performance icons of the 1980s. This one has been driven less than 100 miles!
For performance enthusiasts, the 1980s did not begin on a promising note. Auto manufacturers were submerged in a deluge of government regulations covering safety, fuel economy and exhaust emissions; performance cars received little thought and even less effort. Nevertheless, Buick managed to add to its long performance history with the Rega...
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TRIDENT ICENI MAGNA: WORLD’S FASTEST DIESEL SPORTS CAR!
Unique Trident specialty cars, fastback Magna sports car and Venturer estate wagon, offer performance, economy and environmental benefits.
Trident, the British sports car brand, today announced the global availability of its flagship Iceni sports car, the world’s fastest & most fuel-efficient diesel sports car. With a top speed in excess of 190 mph and the ability to run for 2,000 miles on a single tank of mineral or bio-diesel, the Iceni uses torque multiplication technology to achieve ...
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JAGUAR AT MILLE MIGLIA: CATS ON THE PROWL!
Jaguar Heritage Racing to field ten of the marque’s most celebrated 1950s models in the 2014 Mille Miglia, including XKs, C-Types and one D-Type.
Jaguar Heritage Racing will be tackling the legendary Mille Miglia classic car endurance event, from May 15-18, with a lineup of top-name drivers in ten of the most revered and sought-after historic Jaguars ever produced. The route covers over 1,000 grueling miles from Brescia to Rome to Brescia.
Household names from stage and screen, plus f...
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BARN-FIND CARS: MY DEAL OF THE CENTURY!
Stephen Cox blogs about the collector car that didn’t get away.
“Barn-finds” really happen. In the mid-1990s my Dad was visiting an old high school buddy in southern Indiana. As they talked of the good old days, my father noticed a dirty, old car sitting inside his friend’s barn. It was a blue ‘71 Ford Torino.
The owner said that it had been purchased new by his mother, after which it was passed down to his son. It still ran pretty well when he finally got a new car and parked the Torino...
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GOODWOOD MEMBERS’ MEETING: MAGICAL MOTORSPORTS!
OCTANE magazine’s Robert Coucher blogs about what he considers, ‘the best historic motor racing event in the world.’
It’s been 48 years since Goodwood’s Lord March has hosted a Members’ Meeting event, but he and his team have obviously outdone themselves this year. It was the 72nd Goodwood Members’ Meeting and while it is typically for members of the Goodwood Racing Club, it has been opened up this year to members of some serious single marque clubs. The results: 15,000 people per day and so...
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SHORT TRACK: RACING ON ALL FOURS!
Stephen Cox blogs about the growing four-cylinder trend in grassroots racing.
Once upon a time, entry level stock car divisions at local bullrings across the country were filled with the glorious growl of American V8 engines. They were called “Hobby Stocks,” “Pure Stocks” or “Street Stocks.” A few unimaginative promoters condemned them as “Bombers” or “Thundercars,” as if any fool would want to drive a car so named.
But regardless of the title, entry-level stock car fields at lo...
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CHEVYS AT THE NEW YORK AUTO SHOW: SLIDE SHOW!
There’s something for everyone: pace cars, racecars, Tinseltown Camaro & Corvette, super-high-performance Camaros & Corvettes you can buy, and even the Governor’s Corvette!
If you are member of the Bowtie Brigade and are in the Tri-State Area, the New York International Auto Show, which runs until April 27 at the Jacob Javits Center, NYC, is not to be missed. The latest customized Camaro & Corvette, above, featured in Transformers: Age Of Extinction are on display along with ...
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