That You lived in,or parents and grandparents have told you about?
Here's mine, for example:
Forties: War
Fifties: Big cars with tail fins
Sixties: Rocket Ships
Seventies: Disco
Eighties: Reaganomics
40's - Rationing
50's - Cheap and easy living
60's - Cold war, Protests
70's - Mega Bands (Led Zepplin, ACDC, etc)
80's - Hair spray & punk rockers
90's - Peace
00's - Unfair war, Country run into the gro
1959 Cadillac at Daytona Speedway Car Show a few years ago. Photos by John Douglas Parran
Carbon Motors E7: The front seat was made to resemble a “helicopter-style cockpit” and the hoseable backseat is made for "a very big boy." The 300 horsepower machine also runs on biofuel.
On last week's episode, the Top Gear team upgraded a G-Wiz electric car with a few more batteries, some big racing tires and turned it into a remote controlled car. Witness the devastation unleashed upon the track by a Stig-controlled G-Wiz racing against a Hammond-controlled RC car.
Shark finning is a brutal practice. A shark is caught, pulled onboard a boat, its fins are cut off, and the still-living shark is tossed back overboard to drown or bleed to death. The wasteful, inhumane practice is done to satisfy a demand for shark fins, which can fetch as much as $300 per pound.
Silicon Valley's big brains think they can beat Detroit and Tokyo and save the planet -- all while doing 0 to 60 faster than almost anything on the road.Also in this story, a photo gallery of the car with closeups, and a video of the X1 racing a Ferrari in a print. Creams it!
Professional motorsport is a cold, hard place. If you want to run with the big dogs, you can't just build a car in your mom's garage and show up, right? Wrong. One guy did just that earlier this month. Here's his amazing story.
For those unfamiliar with the first film, all the characters are talking cars. Missing is the voice of Paul Newman, but Owen Wilson voices Lightning McQueen, now a regular champion. The film opens with a spy interlude at sea, with British Agent Fin
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Ferraris, especially those from the early 1970s and before, are among the most sought-after cars at big sales, so auctioneers try to pepper their catalogs with several models from Maranello. Here's a list of notable Ferraris set to cross the block in |
Still, all of those blazing guns, gaudy Chicago and Las Vegas locales, cars with big fins and vintage music (Del Shannon reworked his full-throttle hit Runaway for the theme song) made the series compelling viewing for its loyalists.
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The BRZ also looks kinda cooler than the FT-86, featuring a low slung bonnet, hawk eye headlights and fin-shaped fog lamps, as well as large rear-diffuser, and twin dual tailpipes plus a big rear wing. The car also rocks the new WR Blue Pearl II,
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At the time, everything was big. The economy was booming, the Jet Plane was in its ascendancy. Cars had fins and movies were in wide screen. Along came Doyle Dane Bernbach, asking that people purchase a funny-looking little German car that resembled a |