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Rollie Free stripped to swim trunks and lay flat on a Vincent to hit 150.313 mph at Bonneville in 1948
In September 1948, Rollie Free peeled off his riding leathers on the Bonneville Salt Flats and went back out in a bathing suit. He stretched out flat along a…
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8 Datsuns sold in America before the 240Z, from the 1958 Datsun 1000 to the 510
The Datsun 1000 sedan and a small pickup opened Nissan’s American story at a Los Angeles import show in January 1958. Then came a decade of sedans, roadsters and…
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8 diesel cars sold in America before 1985, from the 1949 Mercedes 170D to a BMW-powered Lincoln
Mercedes-Benz started selling diesel cars in America in 1949, nearly three decades before the Oldsmobile diesel brought the idea to Detroit’s big sedans. In between came French and German…
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Nancy Reagan gave her husband a 1962 Willys CJ-6 for Christmas 1963, and he drove it on his ranches until 1997
Ronald Reagan’s favorite ranch truck started life as a Christmas present. In 1963, Nancy Reagan bought her husband a used 1962 Willys CJ-6, and he kept it working on…
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