I can only hope that decades after I have shuffled off this mortal coil there’ll be pictures of me with a big toothy grin standing proudly by a thoroughly raced and slightly bent motorcar.
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This is a rare, original Pontiac Macho Trans Am T/A by DKM – a special high-performance version of the Trans Am built by brothers Dennis and Kyle Mecham out of their family Pontiac dealership in…
This is the Tamiya R/C Volkswagen Beetle Rally, it’s an homage to all of the Beetle-based rally and desert racing vehicles that have been built from the 1950s right through to the present day. Although…
The Argo Frontier 650 8×8 is an amphibious vehicle that can carry people and cargo on both land and water, it was designed by Canadian company ODG (Ontario Drive and Gear Ltd) based in Kitchener,…
This film was made in the mid-1960s just as the reputation of Carroll Shelby as a race car manufacturer was beginning to take off. It includes a lot of footage of Shelby, telling his own…
Above Image: A Lotus 7 battling with a Porsche 356 Speedster in 1984. Image courtesy of the San Francisco Region SCCA. In the Beginning: Motorsport in the Mud Lotus Cars, and thus the Lotus 7,…
The Allard J2 you see here is the car that helped launch Carroll Shelby’s racing career back in March 1952 at the SCCA-sanctioned Pottsboro Hill Climb in Grayson County, Texas. At the time Shelby…
