Category Archives: Legends

David Buick
Legends July 13, 2015

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The Buick Motor Division, and in some measure General Motors, takes its name from David Dunbar Buick, a Scottish immigrant born in 1854. As a young man, Buick settled in Detroit, Mich., where he began manufacturing plumbing materials. But in 1899, he began to produce engines for farm and stationary use. Buick was a great plumber and a whiz of an inventor, but he wasn’t much of a businessman. After overextending himself to build his creations, Buick accepted cash in exchange for ownership of his ideas.

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Heinz Nordhoff
Legends July 8, 2015

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Heinz Nordhoff grew up an adventurous boy in turn-of-the-century Hildesheim, Germany. As a mechanical engineering student, he was interested in building ships. But when he failed to land a job after university, he fell into his first career, aeronautics, then practically stumbled into automotive work. His early days were spent bouncing from one company to the next, including BMW as an aero-engine apprentice. . .

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Wally Park
Legends July 6, 2015

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His goal was to create order from chaos. Today, drag racing is one of the largest participant forms of motorsports in North America. “No one could have conceived what has happened,” Wally Parks once said of the National Hot Rod Association’s (NHRA’s) growth and success. What has happened to sanctioned racing-TV deals and big money- can be credited to Parks.

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Warren Avis
Legends June 29, 2015

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As a Ford dealer in Detroit, Michigan, Warren Avis valued customer service and knew how to take a need and turn it into an opportunity. As a pilot during World War II, Avis continually became frustrated when ground transportation was not available at airports when we returned home from missions overseas. Although Hertz was already offering a transportation service, its branches were not located at all airports. Avis reasoned that air travel would grow and lead to an increased need for ground transportation.

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Mercedes-Benz Gullwing
300 SL
Legends June 22, 2015

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Decades ahead of its time in terms of style and technology, the Gullwing was one of the first production cars, if not the first, to offer fuel injection. The Gullwing was a sensation when it debuted at the New York Auto Show in 1954 and quickly became the ultimate automotive status symbol. Nearly six decades later, this legendary sports car is considered one of the greatest vehicles ever made.

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Peter Revson
Legends June 15, 2015

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Peter Revson shunned family wealth to make his mark as a racing driver. Born heir in 1939 to the Revlon cosmetics fortune, he took up amateur racing, a passon that led him to Europe in 1963. Unaided by his family fortune, Revson lived out of a transport truck that carried his car. An opportunity to compete in open-wheel racing led to a string of successes, including victory in the 1963 Monaco Formula 3 Grand Prix.

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Porsche 550 Spyder
Legends June 1, 2015

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The Porsche 550 Spyder established the German automaker as a legitimate constructor of performance street cars. After years of converting the cute little 356 model for racing duty, Ferdinand Porsche set out to construct a purpose-built competition car, one that eventually found its way to the street and into infamy at the hands of movie star James Dean.

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Joie Chitwood
Legends May 25, 2015

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Joie Chitwood wanted to race anything that he could get his hands on and he passed that adventurous spirit down to his son and his son’s son. Through his teenage years, Chitwood, Born in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1912, had been working as a race mechanic in the Midwest. When he took the place of the cars driver, purely by chance, thus began an illustrious driving career that included numerous Sprint Car titles and a few trips to the Indy 500. Things changed during World War ll when, as Joie ll says, “racing was outlawed. . .”

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Janet Guthrie
Legends May 18, 2015

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Born in Iowa in 1938 and raised in Florida, she knew all about speed. Her father, a pilot, had encouraged his daughter to pursue her goal of flying and Janet Guthrie eventually did a solo flight for the first time at age 16. She went on to study physics, work as a research and development engineer and passed the first tests to be an astronaut. She also had 13 years of road racing experience, including building and fixing her own cars, before that ground-breaking day years later at Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Roger Penske
Legends May 11, 2015

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Beginning in 1958 at the Akron Speedway in Ohio, and continuing in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) races and other smaller circuits, Roger Penske was an accomplished driver. Then he called it quits to pursue the business of racing. “I thought I might prolong my life a little longer if I wasn’t behind the wheel,” he once said. With Team Penske formed, and racing a key element of his overall business plan, he found early sucess with driver Mark Donahue. . .

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