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Wendell Scott won at Jacksonville in 1963 two laps ahead, but officials first declared Buck Baker the winner
On December 1, 1963, Wendell Scott drove a 1962 Chevrolet to the finish of the Jacksonville 200 two laps ahead of everyone else. Still, he…
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Nash’s 1936 Bed-In-A-Car let two adults sleep inside by folding the rear seatbacks up
In 1936, Nash gave buyers a reason to skip the motel. Its new Nash bed feature, sold as the Bed-In-A-Car, let two adults sleep inside…
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9 microcars we quietly admire
The Isetta microcar opened at the front like a refrigerator, and it went on to sell more than 161,000 copies. That single fact says a…
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Renault’s RS01 brought turbocharging to Formula 1 in 1977, and rivals called it the Yellow Teapot
The Renault RS01 lined up for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in July 1977 with an engine half the size of everyone else’s. It…
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GM sold Buick’s V6 to Kaiser-Jeep in 1967, then bought it back from AMC in 1974 after the oil crisis
Few engines have changed hands the way the Buick Dauntless V6 did. Buick built it, then sold the rights and tooling to Kaiser-Jeep in 1967.…
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7 rear-engine cars that aren’t worth restoring
Renault built more than two million Dauphines, and the sporty Dauphine Gordini showed how much fun a tiny rear-engine car could be. For a while,…
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9 front-wheel-drive classics designed to last far longer than expected
The Fiat 128 changed how small cars get built. Its engine sat sideways, with the gearbox beside it and unequal-length driveshafts to the front wheels.…
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The 1963 Jeep Gladiator’s Tornado six was the first production overhead-cam engine in an American light truck
When Kaiser Jeep launched its new full-size pickup in the fall of 1962, the big news sat under the hood. The 1963 Jeep Gladiator came…
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7 Chargers that refuse to become obsolete
The Dodge Charger name has lived several lives. It started as a big-block fastback in 1966, then turned into a front-drive hatchback during the 1980s.…
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12 Hemi engines we’d quietly rank above everything else
Chrysler’s first Hemi V8 weighed nearly 1,000 pounds and made 180 horsepower in 1951. Seven decades later, a supercharged Hemi made 707 horsepower in a…
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