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Not Hibernating...

If you were driving down a back road in New Hampshire in late December and thought your eyes were playing tricks on you...they weren't. The other ex-Harrah Collection Thomas Flyer of maximum displacement sees no rest regardless of season.

LA MA!

The Chicane posted a period film on the 1969 Le Mans race. No matter what time you can put towards watch one or all of its four parts, it will be well-spent. Besides the romantic time machine aspect of the piece, there's so many little and large details to take in...the honesty of a car's strengths and weaknesses from team managers, a kid playing on the pit wall during a Chris Amon interview, mechanics wrestling a quick jack against the weight of the new 917, cars coming out of corners sideways, how the British narrator pronounces various names...the list goes on. That it happens to document one of the greatest Le Mans races ever is the icing on the cake.

Part One.

Dos!

Trois, mais oui.

And fin!

Jeff Decker

Sculptor of taste, talent, and world-renown, Jeff Decker has finally re-launched his website. Pity there aren't more photos of his amazing collection of bikes and cars, but one takes what one can get.

Jeff Decker of Utah, USA.

Horses for Courses: The Purdy Duke of York twins

Coming this week, a brief history of two of Ned Purdy's lesser-known boats, the amazing though slightly ill-starred Dixie Flyer and Little Shadow.

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1964 Shelby Cobra 289 USRRC

File under: Special

Although there were doubtless other garage-built competition cars that came before it, John Bolster's own Bloody Mary is viewed reverentially as one of the true godfathers of the 'Special' form. The Vintage Sports Car Review has a brief but tantalizing review of the wild, oft multi-engined beast HERE!

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The ex-Villoresi/Ascari/Farina/Chinetti/de Portago/Hill/Ginther/Brero 1953 Ferrari 375M (0286AM) at the Saratoga Auto Museum.

Artifacts: The ARCA Pearl Harbor Letter

In early December of 1941 George Rand, then President of the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) mailed postcards to the club's membership announcing a halt of all activities until further notice. After the War ended it would be a few years before organized road racing resumed in North America, and only then under multiple banners, none of which belonged to the ARCA. This is Rand's draft letter whose contents found their way onto what was for all intents and purposes the last official comuniqu� the founding and revolutionary organization's members would ever get.

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'30 Hacker Craft Dolphin Sultana

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George Rand in the Amilcar-Ford, 1939 ARCA Montauk race. Photo via DAVART.

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MG K3 (K3013) in the Black Forest region of Germany. Photo by Rev. Dr. Richard Knudson.

Racing MGAs in North America

The BARC (that's "B" for "Binghampton" not "British") website is building an interesting archive of information and photos on the MGA in competition. Current highlights include the Gus Ehrman Sebring car as well as many photos of cars with very odd rollbars.

Enjoy here.

The Cunningham Auto Museum

A video of a tour of the long-closed Briggs Cunningham Auto Museum, featuring John Burgess. Who has period footage of Harrah's, the Long Island Auto Museum, Barney Pollard's, or any of the other early American car collections?

First Entry

My roots can be traced back at least this far. My dad (and his mother in law/my grandmother) with his stock 1932 Ford roadster some time in the '60s.

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