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Unique, 3-day Monterey Motorsports Festival to offer immersive experiences for car enthusiasts Aug. 17-19

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Monterey’s annual Car Week will also include the inaugural Monterey Motorsports Festival taking place August 17-19 that will offer up ample immersive experiences for showgoers.

MONTEREY, Calif., — Promising to supercharge Monterey’s annual Car Week by offering enthusiasts eclectic, immersive experiences within an experiential festival atmosphere, the inaugural Monterey Motorsports Festival revs its engines Aug. 17-19.

Held at the Monterey Fairgrounds and Events Center in the heart of the city, the event will showcase an impressive … Read the rest

Chip Miller Amyloidosis Foundation and the Carlisle Ford Nationals announce special benefit dinner for Friday, June 2

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The Foundation Chip Miller Amyloidosis Foundation to be joined by Steve Saleen of the Saleen Club of America for a special benefit dinner June 2nd.

Carlisle, PA – Friends celebrating similar interests and spending time together, that was one of the many things the late Elliot “Chip” Miller loved about the car community. The notion that it didn’t matter what automaker you supported, that when car lovers and like-minded people come together, good things happen. After all, even in the … Read the rest

We’d buy that: 1969 Chevrolet COPO Camaro clone

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A no-nonsense COPO Camaro clone checks all the boxes. All the thriller without the filler… Yeah, we’d buy that!

This awesome ’69 Camaro was apparently re-done as a COPO clone and is currently owned by the same Kentucky dealership that sold it originally!

It was a 427 car originally and has been given a 454 V-8 by a previous owner. It’s got a 4-speed, limited-slip differential, rear spoiler, cowl-induction hood, Hurst shifter … and it would surely look and sound … Read the rest

Car of the Week: 1965 Ford Mustang 2+2 (Phantom Rotary)

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Digging into the rotary-powered Mustang presumed urban myth. The Phantom Mustang has been found!

Among all of the gleaming cars at the National Automobile and Truck Museum (NATMUS) in Auburn, Ind., there’s a little 1965 Mustang 2+2 that might appear to be “just another red Mustang.” Even I looked past the unique car the first few times I scoped out the museum, and I have been active and in the Mustang community for 40 years and … Read the rest

Land speed legend, Norman Craig Breedlove, Sr. has passed

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Land speed legend Norman Craig Breedlove, Senior – March 23, 1937 – April 4, 2023

By “LandSpeed” Louise Ann Noeth

American five-time World Record Setter Norman Craig Breedlove, Senior, 86, the firstperson to surpass speed marks faster than 400-, 500- and 600- miles per hour, died peacefully in his sleep surrounded by family Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in Rio Vista, CA.

“He was an American treasure,” said wife Yadira Breedlove. “Our hearts are heavy today letting him go, but

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On April 24th, 2023 it will be 130 years since the automobile first came to St. Louis

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Back on April 24, 1893 J.D. Perry snuck up on the unsuspecting folks of St. Louis with his self-designed, electric horseless carriage.

On April 24, 1893 – 130 years ago – a 19-year-old St. Louisan introduced area society to the first personal encounter with a locally made, self-propelled, privately-owned vehicle, quietly operated by electricity. The mere sound of its spindly steel-rimmed buggy wheels on horse-trodden dusty streets seemed peculiar since it moved without the accompanying “clop” of horseshoes. Its remarkable … Read the rest