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Off-road legends assemble in San Diego
Parnelli Jones flogs Big Oly into the Baja history books. Jones will be appearing next week at the San Diego Automotive Museum The San Diego Automotive Museum will crack the throttle on its new Tecate...
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Swedish meatpacker
Admit it, you love this. We’re preparing to run a retrospective of Volvo in motorsports within the pages of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, and came across this archival photo, with a major assist...
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Four-Links – Corvette homecoming, British Macks, soap box derby, Baja battler
* Both CorvetteBlogger and the New York Times this week ran stories this week on the very first Corvette, the Motorama Corvette also known as XP-122, returning to the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria...
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Baja 1000 history to take the spotlight at Petersen Museum
In 1962, seeking a way to prove the durability of its new CL72 Scrambler motorcycle, American Honda approached Hollywood stuntman Bud Ekins for ideas. Ekins’s suggestion – a run down Mexico’s rugged...
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Steve McQueen’s 1969 Chevrolet C10, the first GM factory-backed Baja 1000...
The Chevrolet-backed Vic Hickey race truck, formerly owned by Steve McQueen. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. For those passionate about off-road racing, the name Vic Hickey is the stuff of legend....
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Racing Heroes – Parnelli Jones
Parnelli Jones at Daytona Beach, 2010. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company. In the world of contemporary motorsports, finding success in any given series takes near maniacal dedication to a single...
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Steve McQueen-owned Baja race truck sells for $60,000; other McQueen vehicles...
1969 Chevrolet Baja race truck, once owned by Steve McQueen. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. A Vic Hickey-prepared 1969 Chevrolet pickup Baja racer, once owned by Steve McQueen and said to be the...
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Baja and Bricklin – more gearhead films on tap
Beyond the pending release of both Snake and Mongoose and Ron Howard’s Rush, automotive film aficionados still have plenty of screen time ahead. Those out West have the upcoming inaugural Monterey...
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Racing Heroes – Ivan “Ironman” Stewart
Ivan Stewart in the office. Photo by Robert Kerian, used with permission. Off-road racing is, perhaps, motorsport’s hardest test of man and machine. Under the worst possible conditions of heat, dust...
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James Garner, racer and Hollywood legend, dead at 86
James Garner in 1987. Photo by Alan Light. To some, he was the leading man in television’s Maverick and The Rockford Files, while to others he was the star of films like 1966′s Grand Prix. It was...
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“Scoop” Vessels’s historic Baja race truck heads to auction in support of the...
When Frank “Scoop” Vessels began his off-road racing career in 1972, the sport was devoid of big-dollar corporate sponsorships and reliant upon tire technology developed for agricultural, not racing...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Vic Hickey Baja Olds, racing at Brooklands, Iso...
* It looks like an Oldsmobile Cutlass, but underneath it’s a Vic Hickey-built tube-frame mid-engine off-road monster, and Jay Leno got to drive it for the most recent episode of Jay Leno’s Garage. *...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – the rhomboids, the first Baja 1000, Napoli Violenta
This year’s Retromobile had a special display of what they called rhomboids – cars with their wheels laid out in a diamond pattern – and Goodwood’s videographer was there to get some footage of the...
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Off-Road Motorsport Hall of Fame inducts its class of 2016
From left: Bud Feldkamp, Don Amador, Jim Ober, Larry Raglun, Tracy Valenta. Photo courtesy Off-Road Motorsport Hall of Fame. Established in 1978 by National Off-Road Racing Association (NORRA)...
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