Autos
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Hemingway rewarded himself for his 1954 Nobel Prize with a Navajo Orange 1955 Chrysler New Yorker convertible
Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1954, and he marked it with a new car. The Hemingway Chrysler New Yorker was a…
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10 automobiles that became legends of the 1940s
A small Italian coupe called the Cisitalia 202 ended up in New York’s Museum of Modern Art as a piece of sculpture. It’s one of…
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10 sports cars to avoid at all costs
A sports car can look perfect in the classifieds and still hide a costly flaw. The 1980 Ferrari Mondial 8 made TIME’s list of the…
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Dodge’s Sweptside pickup wore the rear fenders of a 1957 two-door station wagon, welded on by hand
The Dodge Sweptside was a 1957 half-ton pickup wearing the finned rear fenders of a 1957 Dodge two-door station wagon. Workers welded those panels onto…
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Porsche built only about 3,300 914/6s, and one won the GT class at Le Mans in 1970
The Porsche 914/6 was the six-cylinder version of the mid-engined 914, and Porsche built only about 3,300 of them between 1969 and 1972. That is…
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9 coupes that gearheads quietly admire
A coupe that a home mechanic can keep running earns a special kind of respect. The nine cars below, from the Ford Capri Mk1 to…
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6 forgotten two-seaters that outran everything in their class
Overall wins grab the headlines, but class wins built reputations for small makers. A tiny Panhard beat its French rival at Le Mans, and the…
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How Chevrolet’s 1957 Ramjet fuel injection made 283 hp from 283 cubic inches without timed injectors
In 1957, Chevrolet bolted a mechanical fuel system onto its 283-cubic-inch small-block V8 and rated the result at 283 horsepower. The Ramjet fuel injection had…
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18 vintage luxury cars that still stop traffic decades later
Makers built most of these cars by the hundred, and a few by the thousand, for buyers who wanted to be seen. The 18 here…
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12 MGs that still stop traffic
MG showed its first M-Type Midget in 1928, and it ended MGF production in 2002. In between, the octagon badge went on boat-tailed roadsters, a…
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