Bobby Clark
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A nearly stock Velocette Venom averaged over 100 mph for 24 hours at Montlhéry in 1961
On March 18 and 19, 1961, a 500cc Velocette Venom averaged 100.05 mph for 24 hours on the banked track at Montlhéry, near Paris. Eight…
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Mazda built 14,336 Rotary Pickups for 1974, then just 632 for 1976 after skipping a model year
In 1974, Mazda built 14,336 examples of its Rotary Pickup, the Mazda REPU, for North America. Then sales stalled, Mazda paused production for the 1975…
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A Long Island Ford dealer put a 289 V8 in the TVR Grantura and sold it as the Griffith
The TVR Griffith 200 was a small British fiberglass coupe with a Ford 289 V8 installed on Long Island, New York. Jack Griffith, a Ford…
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8 Humber Super Snipes from the 1938 original to the last Series VA in 1967
The Humber Super Snipe ran for almost three decades, from a fast 1938 saloon to the Series VA that bowed out in 1967. Along the…
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W.O. Bentley’s Lagonda V12 ran third and fourth at Le Mans in 1939, months before war ended production
In June 1939, two Lagonda V12 cars finished third and fourth in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Lagonda treated the race as a trial…
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8 Bimotas and the engines they borrowed, from Honda’s 10-bike HB1 to a Ducati-powered Tesi
Bimota built frames, not engines. Valerio Bianchi, Giuseppe Morri and Massimo Tamburini founded the company in Rimini, Italy, in 1966, and its name combines their…
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8 details on Alfa Romeo’s Cuorerosso, a 2+2 concept with steer-by-wire and a 33 Stradale-inspired dash
The Alfa Romeo Cuorerosso is a red 2+2 coupe concept with four individual seats, rear-hinged back doors and a cabin that borrows from the 1967…
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Oldsmobile’s W-31 put a 325-hp Ram Rod 350 in the Cutlass, and 742 were built for 1968
The Oldsmobile W-31 was a small-block performance package for the mid-size Cutlass and F-85, built from 1968 to 1970. Its 350 V8 carried a 325-hp…
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6 Grahams from the 1928 Graham-Paige to the Cord-bodied 1940 Hollywood
Graham-Paige began when three brothers bought a Detroit carmaker in 1927, and it ended car production in 1941 with a sedan built on Cord body…
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AMC told the NHRA its 1969 Super Stock AMX made 340 hp, and the NHRA rated it at 420
The 1969 Super Stock AMX was a two-seat American Motors coupe turned into a drag car by Hurst. AMC put its 390 V8 at 340…
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