Autos
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How the 1923 BMW R 32 set the boxer-twin layout BMW still builds
BMW unveiled its first motorcycle, the R 32, in September 1923. Under the tank sat a 494cc flat twin with its cylinders sticking out on…
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How the Mazda 787B became the only rotary-powered Le Mans winner
On June 23, 1991, Johnny Herbert drove the No. 55 rotary Mazda 787B across the line to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Mazda…
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Ford’s Ranchero arrived two model years before the Chevrolet El Camino
Ford put a pickup bed on a passenger-car body and sold it as the 1957 Ranchero. Chevrolet didn’t answer until the 1959 El Camino, two…
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9 Z cars Datsun and Nissan sold from the 240Z to today’s Z
Datsun put the 240Z on sale in the U.S. in October 1969, and the Z car lineup has run through nine distinct generations since then.…
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Why Ford’s 427 SOHC Cammer never turned a wheel in NASCAR competition
Ford built the 427 single-overhead-cam V8 for one job: beating Chrysler’s 426 Hemi on NASCAR’s ovals. Yet the engine fans call the Cammer never started…
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Jaguar finished 16 XKSS roadsters before a factory fire destroyed the other nine
Jaguar planned 25 XKSS roadsters, but the Jaguar XKSS fire at its Browns Lane factory in Coventry cut that run to 16. The nine cars…
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How the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL’s tube frame forced its gullwing doors
The doors on the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL coupe open upward because the car’s 300 SL tube frame left no room for ordinary ones. Engineers ran…
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Janis Joplin’s psychedelic Porsche 356 sold for $1.76 million
Janis Joplin paid $3,500 for a used 1964 Porsche 356 C 1600 SC Cabriolet. Nearly five decades later, the Janis Joplin Porsche sale at RM…
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The 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham cost more than a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud
The 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham carried a price of $13,074, and Cadillac built only 400 that model year. That sticker put a four-door Cadillac above…
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All 300 Corvettes built in 1953 left Flint in Polo White
Chevrolet built 300 Corvettes in 1953, and every one of them was a Polo White Corvette with a red interior. Buyers had no choice of…
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