Onboard with Bobby Unser as he wins the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in 1966.
The three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Unser won 13 times in three classes at Pikes Peak, including eight wins in a 10 year period from 1956 to 1966.
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The Ferrari 121 LM, also known as the Ferrari 735 LM, was developed with a single goal in mind – defeating the all-conquering Mercedes-Benz at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1955.
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When McLaren was originally experimenting with wings for their Can Am and Formula 1 cars they equipped one to the back of a Mini.
This allowed them to cheaply calculate downforce at different speeds using varying wing angles.
Honor Blackman was a dispatch rider during WW2, she later appeared as an actress in both The Avengers and the James Bond film Goldfinger.
She passed away today at the age of 94.
The Bizzarrini 1900 GT Europa is asports car that was built in the late 1960s in very limited numbers – just 12 were made in total and the car you’re looking here is the last one manufactured before the factory shut down.
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"My grandfather brought down 3 Messerschmitts and 2 Heinkels during the Battle of Britain - he was undoubtedly the worst mechanic in the Luftwaffe."
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Ducati Desmodromic valves in action. No valve spring is used, instead there’s a cam lobe and rocker arm to open the valve and another to close it.
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This is the Porsche 356 Borghi Abarth, it’s a car with a fascinating backstory being the only one of its kind ever made – and it was only built because the 1953 Porsche 356 it’s based on burned to the ground in an accident.
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The world’s only recorded accident between a car and a submarine.
A Volvo PV544 crashed into a docked sub in Lysekil, Sweden on the 19th of August 1961.
Racing driver Marjorie Eccles relaxing at Brooklands with a quick smoke and a couple of lines of knitting while a mechanic works on her Eccles Rapier Special.
Stipa-Caproni prototype during a test flight in 1932. The design of the aircraft was very unusual, with a hollow tube fuselage that enclosed the engine and propeller. It was an important step in the development of the jet engine.
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Charlie Musselman’s famous crash at Langhorne. Not only did he survive this, he didn’t even have any broken bones.
They later found his shoes inside the car.
Marcello Gandini passed away today at the age of 85. He is considered one of the greatest automotive designers of all time, if not the greatest outright, and he penned many of the most influential designs of the latter half of the 20th century.
The following is a list of his