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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

The Porsche 917

TGR Staff The 917 is responsible for giving Porsche its first overall wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans back to back in 1970 and 1971. Powered by a flat-12 engine

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

Never before seen images of the 1973 Daytona 24 Hours

by Michael Satterfield 07/222/2013 One of our readers by the name of Monty was lucky enough to attend the 1973 Daytona 24 hours and he sent us scans of his old Polaroids

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

Vintage Gulf Ads

Got to love some of these vintage Gulf ads featuring some of the best looking cars ever made… Enjoy…

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

Fangio’s Mercedes-Benz W196R sets record at $29,619,826

TGR Staff The Mercedes-Benz W196R that was piloted by Juan Manuel Fangio in the 1954 German and Swiss Grands Prix, crossed the block at the Goodwood Festival of Speed Bonhams auction for

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

The GT40 Powered Ford Supervan

TGR Staff The Supervan first appeared at the Easter 1971 meeting at Brands Hatch. A GT40 chassis and its mid-engined 400 bhp Ford V8 gave a standard pressed-steel Mark 1 Transit bodyshell

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

Southern California Historic Sports Car Festival

by Michael Satterfield We headed out and spent the weekend at the Southern California Historic Sports Car Festival… the word “festival” is a bit of a stretch since no one outside of

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

1935 Diamond T Doodlebug

by Michael Satterfield This has got to be one of the coolest trucks ever built, the streamlined 1935 Diamond T Doodlebug, Texaco commissioned 6 of the Doodlebugs to give the company a

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

Lamborghini: A Complete History

TGR Staff To understand a Lamborghini, you must understand the land that generated it. You need to think of a tree and examine its roots. And in this case, they are firmly

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

The Adler XF/VOT Boat-tail Roadster

by Michael Satterfield – 05/18/2013 El Mirage is one of those magical places, just a little more than an hour north of Los Angeles in the high desert; it’s a raw dirty landscape,

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

TGR Staff – 05/01/2013 Although the first production Shelby de Mexico wasn’t built until 1967, this car (a 1965 coupe prepared by Lew Spencer and Carroll Shelby’s High-Performance Motors) can technically be

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago