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Despite all the advancements that have been made in medical science, it’s still highly uncommon for a human to reach 100 years of age. It’s even less common to live to 105, but Yutaka Katayama...
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDOid1weT5Q[/youtube] Yesterday seemed like pretty much any other Sunday, right? Well, if you’re a motorsports history buff, it wasn’t, because February 15, 2015 would have been Graham Hill’s 86th birthday. Between his substantial talent, dashing...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbsrO_h3QI8&list=LLCpNw5Fe-9YYS4duyxmzh0A&index=2[/youtube] The early 1960s was a time of transition for the U.S. auto industry: Tailfins and truckloads of chrome were out, slab-sides and tidy proportions were in. However, the competition to win the hearts and...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-Q_8sx5-c&list=UUTYgn4oZnsKbGi_hlkLSGzA[/youtube] Magnus Walker is very much a Southern California fixture these days, but he was born and raised in Great Britain. And while the world’s most recognizable classic Porsche customizer may have been born in...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAlf7iWV7Wk&list=UU5rBpVgv83gYPZ593XwQUsA[/youtube] Ever had a project that began simply and cheaply enough, yet eventually snowballed into something much more elaborate, nicer and – oh by the way – more expensive than you ever would have anticipated?...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQErgDQaRZM&list=UU8AMAhCRmep7VJKe1sxvHFg[/youtube] We’ve said time and time again that, as far as we’re concerned, the mid-1980s through the early-1990s was the golden age of sports car racing on planet earth. Yeah, yeah, we’re biased because we...
In 1963, 24-year-old Arthur Lampitt of Illinois was doing very well for himself. He was a successful real estate agent, and he parlayed part of that success into the purchase of a brand new 1963...
A little over 100 years ago (December 1, 1914, to be exact), five brothers from Bologna, Italy – Alfieri, Bindo, Carlo, Ettore and Ernesto Maserati – established a workshop to build automobiles and components. In...
Few supercars made in the last quarter century have been as star-crossed as the Jaguar XJ220: The runaway hit of the 1988 Birmingham Motor Show, it entered (limited) production five years later, though it did...
Before he was kicking ass and taking names with McLaren and, before that, Lotus, Ayrton Senna was just a shy, short-haired 24-year-old Formula 1 rookie with the small British outfit, Toleman Motorsport. But the future...