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Resurrecting Legend: The Long-Lost Ford GT40 P/1067 Emerges From A California Garage

Hidden for decades in a Thousand Oaks garage, one of the rarest Ford GT40s—chassis P/1067—has been rediscovered, igniting new passion for a Le Mans icon that almost slipped through history’s fingers.

Datsun 240Z Rally Legacy: The Z Car That Conquered Safari And Monte Carlo

We stopped in to visit the Datsun 240Z Rally Cars at the Nissan Heritage Center in Japan; for more from our visit to Japan. In the early 70s, Nissan wanted to make

Dale’s Wheels Through Time Museum

If you are a gearhead in the US, then driving the Blue Ridge Parkway should be on your bucket list, and if you are planning to be out that way anyways, taking

Bugatti’s Super Sports

TGR Staff – 06/09/2021 Extremely fast and yet very comfortable – with the Chiron Super Sport 300+1, Bugatti is once again redefining luxurious hyper sports cars. Once again because the French luxury

by Michael Satterfield

5 years ago

Streets of New York: 1970s

TGR Staff New York has always been a tough city to drive in, in the 1970s the federal government sent photographers out across the country to document the pollution that was wreaking

by Michael Satterfield

5 years ago

Day Trip: San Jacinto Monument and USS Texas

by Michael Satterfield – 05/25/2021 Just east of Houston stands a monument to the battle that decided Texas nationhood, the battle of San Jacinto. At 567 feet, it is the tallest masonry

by Michael Satterfield

5 years ago

Gentleman Racer: Sig Haugdahl

by Michael Satterfield Sigurd Olson Haugdahl was born in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway in 1891, he would move to the United States in 1910 to live with his uncle in Albert Lea, Minnesota.

by Michael Satterfield

5 years ago

Ferrari Formula 1 Car By Car: Every Race Car Since 1950

Motorbooks has released a new book, Ferrari Formula 1 Car by Car: Every Race Car Since 1950, showcasing each of Ferrari's F1 cars chronologically. Each car's technical specifications, unique features, and competition records for

by TGR Staff

5 years ago

Chicago In The 70s

In the 1970s the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hired a team of photographers to document American life, the focus was to create a visual record of life, culture, living standards, and the

by Michael Satterfield

5 years ago

1902 Oldsmobile Pirate Beach Racer

TGR Staff In 1902 Ransom E. Olds, the founder of Oldsmobile, wanted to generate some excitement for his still very new car company, as always motorsports would be the way to prove

by Michael Satterfield

5 years ago

Before the Cobra, the Origin of AC

TGR Staff AC is most widely known as the maker of the AC Ace, a car that would go on to become the Ferrari beating Shelby Cobra. Since 1922 some version AC

by Michael Satterfield

5 years ago

Gentleman Racer Jimmie Costa Jr.

TGR Staff Jimmie Costa, Jr. got his start behind the wheel driving for Ralph Ambrose “Pappy” Hankinson in auto polo matches that Hankinson promoted. The auto polo matches were used to fill

by Michael Satterfield

5 years ago

Touring Japan in the 1920s

TGR Staff Albert Menasco was known for his innovative airplane engine designs, he dropped out of high school in Los Angeles to become a wing-walking stunt man and later attempted to join

by Michael Satterfield

5 years ago