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In the late 1950s, the sports car paddock was ruled by well heeled purists campaigning delicate European thoroughbreds. Then USAF pilot Jim Kellison showed up with a sinister, razor-thin fiberglass missile designed to blow them off the track. Kellison paired aerospace know-how with lightweight...

Yes, but what is it made of? Might mean the difference between a ride and a fail

She's got a bunch of these out for different reason. Always shows cleavage to catch your eye.

By 1970 tire technology was dangerously lagging behind Chrysler aerodynamics. A winged sister car officially crossed 200 miles per hour at Talladega, and the Plymouth Superbird carried that exact velocity directly onto superspeedways. Richard Petty collected 8 victories in 1970 alone. The...

Pontiac gets all the credit for launching the American street wars with the GTO. They won the marketing battle but engineers at another General Motors division built a vastly superior machine. The 1968 Oldsmobile 442 arrived as a completely redesigned standalone model becoming the undisputed...

Cadillac gets all the historical credit for unleashing the 16 cylinder automobile, but General Motors actually stole the march on a far superior rival. Howard Marmon started designing an all aluminum V16 back in 1926 before a defecting engineer carried those secret plans directly to Cadillac...

Back when they knew what a chair was. And probably a hell of a lot better for craftmanship and comfort that what is around today even within homes

Genesis is the best band show I ever attended. This was before they made it big and were playing smaller venues like the Universitie de Montreal. After one song they were literally carrying some of the audience off the floor because they had conked out from the presentation. Venues like the Big...

In 1911 Harry Stutz spent a feverish five weeks building a stripped down race car for the inaugural Indianapolis 500. Against a massive field of forty machines his creation managed an astonishing eleventh place finish. The company immediately dubbed it the car that made good in a day...