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| Amelia-winning Pegaso, Le Mans-winning GT40 selected for IHMA Car of the Year finalists 
Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photo by Richard Lentinello. Ask a bunch of students to design a car and you're guaranteed to end up with some unconventional results. Actually produce any of those unconventional results and you're likely to end up with a striking car like the 1952 Pegaso Z-102 Cupola, a car that the International Historic Motoring Awards recently shortlisted for 2016 Car of the Year. One of eight candidates for Car of the Year, the Pegaso is also one of two Cupolas built by in-house coachbuilder Enasa. First displayed at the... Read More |  | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1962 Lola T70 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Built from original parts 1962 Lola T70 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: This beautiful Lola T-70 Spyder was constructed by Lee Chapman Racing in New Milford, Connecticut using original front and rear fabricated steel bulkheads which John Bright found in California, while working in IMSA on a Lola T600 team. The bulkheads were confirmed to be from a Lola T-70 Spyder MkIII, primarily because of the way they were constructed and the position of their suspension pickup points. The bulkheads ...Read More | Auto racing to end at the Iowa State Fairgrounds after 109 years Posted by Daniel Strohl - The motorsports history at the Iowa State Fairgrounds dirt track, which dated back to 1907, came to an abrupt end this week when the fair board announced that all racing activities in the future would cease on the half-mile dirt track, a decision that was reported in the Des Moines Register. No reason was given, but racing sources in Iowa told us that talk about ceasing racing at the fairgrounds had been in the air for years, and reflects the ongoing budgetary pressures on fair boards throughout the United States to...Read More |  | Open Diff: What's the most obscure automotive nickname you've heard? Posted by Daniel Strohl - Images via OldCarBrochures. Recently, thanks to regular commenter italianiron, we were introduced to a nickname for the chrome trim pieces that adorn the rear flanks of 1951-1952 senior Packards: bottle openers. Seemed a lot of our other regular commenters hadn't heard this term before, which led italianiron to wonder out loud whether we knew of other such uncommon sobriquets from automotive history. Specifically, he pointed out how nicknames for certain parts or shapes on a car can lead to general terms for t...Read More | Jam Handy takes us inside GM Design in the late 1950s Posted by Thomas A. DeMauro - By now, just about anyone who is into vintage cars and has visited the Hemmings Daily knows who Henry Jamison "Jam" Handy was. We've frequently featured various selections from his treasury of automotive documentary, educational and marketing films, and Kurt Ernst did a detailed biographical piece on Handy in May of 2014Documenting the documentarian: New film project examines the work of Jam Handy. American Look presented by Chevrolet "In appreciation of the stylists of America," is another Jam Handy gold nugg...Read More | Luanda, Angola, 1965 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: November 1965 Location: Luanda, Angola Source: The Chicane on Tumblr What do you see here?...Read More |  | THIS DAY IN AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY | 9/29/1966: | Chevrolet Camaro debuts. |
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