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Porsche 908/03 Targa Florio
In a period of almost 20 years, Porsche had worked itself up the motor sport ladder. From the early 1950s the Stuttgart based company slowly progressed through sportscar racing with increasingly...
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Homo Cathectus
The monkey mascot of London's Crystal Palace Speedway helps a mechanic tune a motorcycle belonging to a member of the 1932 English motor racing team.
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Grumman XF5F-1 Skyrocket
Ordered as a prototype on 30 June 1938 by the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, the XF5F-1 was of radical concept. It was intended as a twin-engined shipboard fighter, and this at a time when the first...
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NSU 250 Sportmax IOM TT
The NSU Sportmax is a racing motorcycle for private riders that was developed from the standard machine. It successfully raced alongside the factory Racemax machines from as far back as 1953. The whale...
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Rockstars' Garage: Elvis Presley's Stutz Blackhawk
Among many of Elvis Presley's prized cars was his Stutz Blackhawk's. Elvis was the first person to own a Stutz Blackhawk, and probably his favourite car of the 1970s was his 1973 Stutz Blackhawk...
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BSA M33 Manx style Cafe by Studio Motor
The Cafe Racer scene in Indonesia is alive and kicking. Despite the unavailability of large capacity motorcycles and the high expense involved with purchasing parts from other countries, skilled...
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1963 Velocette Viper Record Attempt
In 1963, a little over a year after their successful '24-hour at 100mph' record (using a 500cc Venom), the Veloce factory decided to make a second attempt at a 24-hour record, using a 350cc 'Viper'...
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1978 24 Horas de Montjuic, Victor Palomo & Ducati
Victor had his first GP podium in 1973 at Hockenheim in Germany riding his 350 Yamaha to second place behind Teuvo Lansivouri. At the Italian GP at Monza that year he was involved in the tragic...
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Pythagoras
A squared + B squared = C squared. Pythagoras’ name has an obvious place on one side of a triangle, but what’s not so well known is how it got there. Ed Foster is already a legendary Tuscon frame...
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Chaparral 2J The "Fan" Car
The Chaparral 2J, known as the 'fan car', or 'sucker car', was the first of only a few race cars to feature fan-assisted aerodynamics. It was powered by a powerful aluminum-block 8.1 litre Chevy V8,...
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XB 70 Valkyrie
With research and development studies beginning in 1955, the XB-70 was a large, long-range strategic bomber was planned to be the replacement for the B-52. As in the B-58 program, the Air Force wanted...
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