CELEBRITY RIDES
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Paul Newman finished second at Le Mans in 1979 sharing a Porsche 935 with Dick Barbour and Rolf Stommelen
Paul Newman was 54 when he drove at Le Mans, and he nearly won it. In June 1979, the Paul Newman Porsche 935 finished second overall…
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Evel Knievel’s Skycycle X-2 for the 1974 Snake River Canyon jump was built by ex-Aerojet engineer Robert Truax
Evel Knievel’s most famous machine was not really a motorcycle. The Skycycle X-2 he rode at Idaho’s Snake River Canyon on September 8, 1974, was a…
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Bill Gates’s Porsche 959 sat in U.S. customs storage for 13 years until the 1999 Show or Display rule
Bill Gates’s Porsche 959 is one of the strangest ownership stories in the car world. Gates ordered Porsche’s technology flagship of the 1980s, yet U.S. customs…
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Sinatra’s company bought one of only 117 Dual-Ghias, Italian-bodied convertibles on Dodge Hemi frames
Frank Sinatra’s production company bought a 1957 Dual-Ghia convertible new, and Sinatra later gave the car to his ex-wife, the actress Ava Gardner. By the count…
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