Archive for February 18th, 2010


TOWN OF TONAWANDA: New GM engine line slated for 2012
Tonawanda News
“The days of the muscle car are gone. I mean people with money can afford their toys, but most people are looking for economy.” That's part of the reason ...

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Around the tracks 19 February 2010
Cars Guide
A radical new racecar, similar to 1950s 'car of the future' concepts in the American motor industry, is one of the proposals for a new chassis for the 2012 ...

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Mangled Roadsters, Erotic Bodywork Star in Car-Art Show: Review
Bloomberg
“Hers Is a Lush Place” (1958) is an examination of the eroticism of 1950s US automobile bodywork by Richard Hamilton. Actually, more could have been ...

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Classic Driver

David Brown's Aston Martin DB2: Behind the Wheel of 'UMC 272'
Classic Driver
... the second six-cylinder car, and 'DB''s personal transport until pressed into racing service by works driver Lance Macklin, who entered it in the 1950 ...

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Darryl Starbird's 46th Annual Car Show is in Tulsa
News On 6
'If you love cars of any type, whether it's race cars or muscle-cars, street cars, custom cars, you name it, we got them,' said Darryl Starbird, ...

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Cars and carbs
Toronto Sun
The term carhop - they were once referred to as tray trotters - became part of the popular vernacular in the 1940s and 1950s, and was deeply rooted in the ...

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Goodguys 28th All American Get-Together
San Francisco Chronicle
The event features indoor and outdoor car shows with over 3000 hot rods, custom cars, classics, trucks, muscle cars and street machines of all years, ...

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Globe and Mail

The Mini has nothing on these tiny rides
Globe and Mail
There was a brief flirtation with spindly and Spartan “cycle-cars” in the first two decades of the 20th century and cars like the austere Austin 7 were down ...

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2011 Porsche Boxster Spyder - Short Take Road Test
Car and Driver
Media types attending the Boxster Spyder launch near Monterey, California, got rides in an original 1950s Porsche 550 Spyder—until it broke down. ...

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1954 Arnolt-Bristol Roadster DeLuxe
Palm Springs Life
In addition to the cars of the 1950s, there will also be dazzling examples from other eras, including the 1939 Shah of Iran Bugatti Type 57, ...

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