Archive for February 2nd, 2010


The Birmingham News - al.com (blog)

Car show coming to Talladega Superspeedway's pit road
The Birmingham News - al.com (blog)
The car show is open to antique cars, muscle cars, street rods, and classic cars, including newer Camaros, Dodges, Corvettes, and Mustangs. ...

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Wired News

Jaguar Building a Turbine Hybrid
Wired News
The announcement follows a long heritage of turbine research in the UK Rover built the first gas turbine-powered car, the Jet-1 (pictured above) in 1950. ...

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NHRA Unleashed logo unveiled, event details released
NHRA.com
These are the cars that race every drag strip across the nation and are the backbone of drag racing. They include a wide variety of muscle cars, ...

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Book review: The Art of the Muscle Car, David Newhardt (text) and Peter ...
Adelaide Independent Weekly
The US muscle car was initially a more or less standard family vehicle but with a hot engine. It soon became the core of a motoring movement that developed ...

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The Future of the US Economy: 2050
U.S. News & World Report
While the suburbs of the 1950s were predominantly white, suburbs today have an increasing number of ethnic minorities and recent immigrants. ...

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Toyota Tells Dealers Parts on Way to Fix Pedals
WSAZ-TV
Think back...way back to the 1950's. Mothers stayed home and actually raised their own children. Dads worked and came home to his wife and kids and a hot ...

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Telegraph.co.uk

Split/Second video game preview
Telegraph.co.uk
Players will have access to around 30 cars, which include muscle cars, super cars and trucks. The game is divided into the two modes of story and ...

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GHS grad fulfills her need for speed
Greenwich Time
A Byram native who owns Scotty's Auto & Truck Service Center in Stamford, Scotty Sobeski, a former muscle-car racer, takes credit for getting Kaitlyn ...

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Tokyo: New Year Meeting Kicks Off Classic-Car Season
Inside Line
Detroit's influence on Japanese car design can clearly been seen in classics like the 1950s Prince Skyline and the 1960s Nissan Gloria, while there's always ...

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Wired News

Jaguar Building a Turbine Hybrid
Wired News
Rover built the first gas turbine-powered car, the Jet-1 (pictured above) in 1950. The two-seater was capable of 88 mph at a dizzying 50000 (!) RPM. ...

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