Autos
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12 vintage hardtops that still stop traffic decades later
In 1949, General Motors put pillarless hardtops into mass production at Buick, Oldsmobile and Cadillac, and the Oldsmobile Holiday was one of them. A hardtop…
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8 small-block V8s that keep going under extreme driving conditions
General Motors built its 100-millionth small-block V8 on November 29, 2011. Yet that count covers just one maker’s family of engines. Add Ford’s and Chrysler’s…
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12 wagons you’ve probably never seen in person
An American property developer once asked a Ferrari dealer for something different, and he got a Daytona shooting brake. That one-off red Ferrari wagon explains…
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Cushman’s Model 53 Airborne scooter was designed to be dropped by parachute with U.S. Army paratroopers
The Cushman Model 53 was a small motor scooter with a big job. In 1944, the U.S. Army needed a light machine that could fall…
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Elon Musk paid nearly $1 million for the Bond Lotus Esprit submarine a Long Island couple found in a $100 storage unit
In 1989, a Long Island couple bid on a storage unit they had never seen inside and won it for about $100. Behind the door…
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12 classic pickups that still feel relevant
Ford’s F-Series passed the Chevrolet C/K in 1977 to become America’s best-selling truck, and it has held that spot since. Long before that race began,…
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Miami Vice’s Daytona Spyder was a Corvette underneath, and Ferrari’s lawsuit put Crockett in a Testarossa
The black Ferrari that Sonny Crockett drove through the first seasons of Miami Vice was really a Corvette in a fiberglass suit. That Miami Vice…
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12 overhead-cam engines so durable they seem impossible to kill
Nissan’s VG30E V6 went into sports cars, sedans, pickups and SUVs, from the 300ZX to the Hardbody truck. That kind of range only works when…
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12 sports cars worth remembering
Alfa Romeo built only 2,598 Spiders in Quadrifoglio Verde trim, and the Alfa Romeo Spider Quadrifoglio Verde is a good place to start a list…
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11 air-cooled engines that refuse to wear out
Volkswagen built versions of its air-cooled engine from 1936 until 2006, and the last Type 1 unit went into a Brazilian Type 2 van. That…
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