Blowing a Few Riffs for Mr. Charley

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Blowing a Few Riffs for Mr. Charley

1 Comment 19 March 2010

This weekend is the 57th annual Sebring 12-Hour endurance race. At the 8th annual race, Denise McCluggage and her codriver Allen Eager drove their Ferrari 250 GT to 10th place overall and 1st GT. But her most vivid memory is of a flamboyant black driver named Frank, shaking up the place—“blowing a few riffs [...]

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The Dawn of the Big Time

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The Dawn of the Big Time

2 Comments 15 March 2010

They don’t make them like this any more. Not drivers, not races, not stories.

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Sir Stirling Moss Injured in Fall

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Sir Stirling Moss Injured in Fall

No Comments 11 March 2010

I was 10 years old. My father took me to Sebring. We drove more than a thousand miles from Pennsylvania in his silver AC Bristol. Stirling Moss was my hero. He was racing an Aston-Martin DBR1 in the 12-Hour. There he was, across the room at breakfast on our first morning there. I desperately wanted [...]

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Stirling Moss Returns to Racing, 1985

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Stirling Moss Returns to Racing, 1985

No Comments 11 March 2010

The team’s leader and car owner was a burly, drawling, red-bearded fellow who would fit better in a stock car than a sports car. The No. 2 driver was a ribald Scot named Ireland, an erstwhile Grand Prix driver and lobster fisherman. And the main attraction was a living legend, Stirling Moss, one of the [...]

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The Return of the Bandit

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The Return of the Bandit

4 Comments 01 March 2010

The rich and rollicking tale of the historic Oldsmobile Bandit, made famous by the book “Fast Guys, Rich Guys and Idiots,” is a long one and growing.

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Dan Gurney- The cars he built, the cars he drove

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Dan Gurney- The cars he built, the cars he drove

No Comments 18 February 2010

The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion enters a new dawn of historic racing by honoring one of the true legends of motorsports–

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Chevy Billboards

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Chevy Billboards

2 Comments 05 February 2010

A beautiful memorial, by a great advertising agency ….but if the billboards were intended to say This is what we can do, all they say is this is what we used to be able to do, in a different world.

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