| Marqued for death: more American orphans - Tue, 22 May 2012 12:00:28 +0000 |
| Now that the dust has settled on American car-company reorganizations, and no more long-storied nameplates are under duress for the moment, Hemmings Classic Car wanted to take a look back at America’s orphaned marques. Post-WWII, more than two dozen nameplates have been discarded as detritus, even though they mean a lot to an awful lot [...] |
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| Big Willie Robinson, street racing legend, dies - Mon, 21 May 2012 17:07:24 +0000 |
| Photo courtesy International Brotherhood of Street Racers We’d known for a while that Big Willie Robinson was sick. It really started when his bride, Tomiko, died in 2010, you could say. Willie had had a pacemaker installed, but vascular disease had cost him both his legs. Physicians still couldn’t save him. We learned from the [...] |
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| St. Petersburg, Florida, 1964 - Mon, 21 May 2012 16:00:01 +0000 |
| We have David Greenlees at The Old Motor to thank for today’s street scene, taken in October 1964 amid a gas price war in St. Petersburg, Florida. As David related, the prices had just dropped that day from 24.9 and 26.9 cents, causing the flood of fill-ups. What do you see here? And for the [...] |
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