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IndyCar’s IR-28 logged 177 laps at Sebring, its first test outside Indianapolis, as Dallara starts production
IndyCar’s next car has left Indianapolis for the first time. The IndyCar IR-28 ran 177 laps over two days at Sebring International Raceway in Florida…
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How a single belt-driven pump ran the 1955 Citroën DS’s suspension, brakes, steering and gear change
The 1955 Citroën DS19 ran its suspension, brakes, steering, clutch and gear change from one engine-driven hydraulic circuit. A single belt drove the pressure pump,…
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FDR’s hand-controlled 1936 Ford Phaeton was driven 19,143 miles before Eleanor gave it to his library
Franklin D. Roosevelt could not use his legs to drive, yet he drove himself around Hyde Park in a 1936 Ford Phaeton fitted with hand…
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Moto Guzzi raced a 498cc V8 in 1956 and 1957, with one carburetor for each of its eight cylinders
The Moto Guzzi V8 was a 500cc Grand Prix motorcycle with eight cylinders, and each one had its own carburetor. Moto Guzzi raced it in…
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7 Matchless motorcycles from the 593cc Silver Hawk V4 to the 497cc G50 production racer
Matchless built motorcycles in Plumstead, in southeast London, for most of the 20th century. Its range ran from narrow-angle V-twins and a V-4 tourer to…
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Before a rock band took its name, the REO Speed Wagon was a 1915 truck from Ransom E. Olds’s company
Long before it was a rock band, the REO Speed Wagon was a truck. Ransom E. Olds’s company in Lansing, Michigan, launched it in 1915.…
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6 Mack trucks from the AC Bulldog, built 40,299 times over 24 years, to the 1977 RW Super-Liner
Jack and Gus Mack founded their company in Brooklyn in 1900, and by 1905 it had moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania. Since then, Mack trucks have…
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Mazda’s rotary Cosmo Sport lasted 84 hours at the Nürburgring in 1968 and finished fourth
In 1968, Mazda sent two rotary Cosmo Sports to an 84-hour race on the Nürburgring. One went off the road with about two hours to…
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9 engines in Lotus road cars, from the 75-hp Coventry Climax in the Elite to Toyota’s V6 in the Evora
Lotus has never built every engine it used, and that is half the fun of its road cars. The story of Lotus engines runs from…
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Hurst helped finish 50 Hemi Barracudas for 1968 Super Stock drag racing, with fiberglass front fenders
For the 1968 drag racing season, Chrysler built 50 lightweight 1968 Hemi Barracuda race cars, and Hurst helped put them together. Instead of street cars,…
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