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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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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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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You won’t find many old car guys like us who can say: We were there in 1957, at Watkins Glen,when the Danica Patrick of her day, the great Denise McCluggage, was out there mixing it up with the best of the male drivers. It was a time when a thing like Danicamania was unimaginable
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Have At It, Boys. NASCAR Gets What It Asked For. Payback’s a Bitch. (Choose your headline.)
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More women than men buy Volvos, and this one’s their dream
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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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Three years ago when Jaguar designers built the superb all-aluminum monocoque chassis thats under the XK, it seemed too bad that the engine was a Ford. But now with the 2010 model, the Brits are back where they belong, building their own engines in England.
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