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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

1960 Italian Grand Prix Monza Phil Hill in the Ferrari 246

Via Ten-Tenths

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

Dan Gurney, 1960

TGR Staff ‘Dan worked with Bell Helmets in California where he helped to develop the first full-face helmet. He had seen motorcycle racers wear similar ones at Ascot Raceway in California. Dan wore

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

1961: Ford “Glideair” Hover Car

TGR Staff “This revolutionary new mode of travel was recently unveiled by Ford — a wheel-less vehicle that rides on a thin film of air a fraction of an inch above the

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

The Daihatsu Compagno Spider

by Michael Satterfield When most people think of Daihatsu they often don’t think of cool sporty roadsters, but back in the mid-1960s, you could get a Daihatsu Compagno Spider, a car I

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

Kalakala, The World’s Most Beautiful Ferry

TGR Staff 04/10/2013 If you were lucky enough to be near Puget Sound from 1935 to 1967 it is likely you would remember seeing the Kalakala, an art deco masterpiece was built

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

Automobili Lamborghini “100 Years of Innovation in half the time”

TGR Staff In 2013, the 50th year since it was founded, Automobili Lamborghini is participating in the annual Techno Classica fair at Essen, where Lamborghini will be showing two of its supercars

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

Original Shelby Poster

TGR Staff The Samuel Owen Gallery has this amazing and rare vintage Shelby Poster listed on their site, it celebrates Shelby’s 3 championships in 1963. If you are a die-hard Shelby fan

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

The Shelby School of High Performance Driving

TGR Staff Shelby launched his racing school in late 1961 at Riverside International Raceway, the school would go on to become the Bob Bondurant School. See some more amazing photos at Along

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago

The Joshua Tree Inn

by Michael Satterfield The 29 Palms Highway (Highway 62) is the kind of road you have to plan to be on since it parallels both the I-40 and I-10 and does not do anything

by Michael Satterfield

13 years ago