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[Ruttman98]

1966 Ford Mustang with a "bundle of snakes"

Ak Miller, Art Chrisman, Autolite's Danny Eames, famed Indy-car mechanic Chickie Hirashima, and Mario Andretti teamed up to drop a 255-inch Ford Indy engine into a basically stock fastback for a run at 200 mph during the private Bonneville timing session scheduled by [ed: Art] Arfons and two streamliner teams. After successfully setting both D/Production Sedan FIA records at 136.645 (standing kilometer) and 150.134 (standing five-mile), they tipped the can for back-to-back nitromethanated blasts of 171 and 175 before a burned piston ended the outing. From start to finish, the ambitious project spanned just 34 days in late October and early November.

Photograph and information from Motor Trend

 

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BMW Nazca C2 Concept car

 

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Renault ALPINE A110 in a classic car meet, this morning, in Barakaldo, near Bilbao.
This car is one of my favourite classic cars and also one of my favourite rally cars.

 

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[Ruttman98]

1966 Oldsmobile Toronado

Olds was represented at Pikes Peak by two front-wheel-drive Toronados, of all things. Defending-champ Nick Sanborn (shown) repeated in the stock-car class, while 70-year-old Louie Unser manhandled the other heavyweight to fourth despite pitching its power-steering belt near the start.

Photograph and information from MotorTrend

 

[Ruttman98]

1959 Cadillac Coupe de Ville

 

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240mph in this? Not me.

(https://www.motortrend.com/features/belly-tank-racer-east-coast-custom/)

 

[MantrackerWRC]

1993 F1 Donington GP
The lap of God's of Ayrton Senna.
Also the favourite race for Sega and retro video games fans

 

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Stratos Evo D

 

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What were they thinking? A 1905 design built with modern tech?

 

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2008 Venturi Fetish, electric concept car.

 

[RCHeliguy]

Midjourney AI generated images of "grandmas show off their crochet cars"

 

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Delage D8

 

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1952 Allard J2X; Cadillac 331ci V8, 230hp, 322ft/lb torque. This particular car was driven by Carroll Shelby, winning four of the five races it entered; recently auctioned for $625,000. Allards, with whatever engine the owner wanted to use (from small block Chevy to Chrysler Hemi), were frequent winners in the early days of sport car racing, even finished third at LeMans; but financial woes and the arrival of less expensive cars with equal performance killed the line, by 1959 they were a manufacturer of performance parts for other cars.

 

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Dick Scritchfield's '32 Ford. Purchased from the original builder in the fifties, under Scritchfield's ownership it became the first automobile with a metalflake paintjob, ran 167mph at Bonneville, was the model for the logos of several hot rod clubs, appeared in numerous TV shows and movies (different colors and slightly different configurations), and is listed #16 on the Historic Vehicle Register. Currently owned by a private collector who has restored it to its late fifties version, it is still driven and frequently appears at shows.

 

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1940 LaSalle Coupe
("Gee our old LaSalle ran great,
Those were the days")

 

[Ruttman98]

Happy U.S. Independence Day!

1974 Pontiac Grand Am All-American show car

 

[MantrackerWRC]

Bumper Cars
I had a lot of fun driving those things with my friends as a teenager during the "Fiestas" in my town about 10 years ago. Time flies, it seems like it was yesterday. Great and funny memories...

 

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Looks like 5 o'clock traffic here.

(Wont discuss when I was a teenager, but I gave up a chance to go to Woodstock because it was the week of my 16th birthday, and nothing was going to delay me getting my license.)

 

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1969-70 Torino King Cobra, 370hp Cobra Jet 429; one of a handful of prototypes built (exact number unknown but probably not more than 8-10) for NASCAR testing. Management shake-up at Ford in 1970, which saw the company president and chief engineer sent packing, killed the project. Some of the cars ended up with NASCAR teams (Holman-Moody and Petty among them) who scrapped them for parts. Ford kept two; in late 1970 Bud Moore saw them sitting at Dearborn, one damaged, the other looking "as plain as such an exotic car could be" ...Ford sold both to him for $600 each. He repaired the damaged one and sold it; years later it was found in a junkyard and restored. Moore kept this yellow one, drove it, rarely, for decades, then sold it to a private collector, still in all original condition; today it has less than 1000 miles on it. The three surviving cars have all been offered for auction in recent years, all with reserves in excess of $400k; no info on if they sold, or to whom.