Category Archives: Legends

Vincent Hugo Bendix
Legends May 4, 2015

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As it turns out, there was little, if anything, that could stop him. From an early ago, the founder of Bendix Corporation showed the kind of spirit that comes around once every century or so. He was creative, fascinating and he was willing to take a few chances. In fact, Bendix ran away to Manhattan in 1898 at age 16, the scene for many entrepreneuers of the time. He began working as an elevator operator in a hospital, then moved to the maintenance department where he was taught the basics of electricity.

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Bill France SR.
Legends April 27, 2015

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As a teen growing up in Washington, D.C., Bill France Sr., known as the father of NASCAR, loved racing, often skipping school to watch races at a high-banked track in Laurel, Md. Eventually, he owned a service station in Washington and then packed up his family and moved to a warmer climate in Florida. His timing couldn’t of been better. In 1936, the city of Daytona Beach helped promote a stock-car race on its sandy shores and lost money doing it. . .

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Harvey Firestone
Legends April 20, 2015

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It was 1895 and Henry Ford had just one thing to say to the clerk at the front counter of Columbus Buggy Works in Detroit: “I’m here for Harvey Firestone.” Ford was using bicycle tires for a car. Not viable, Ford knew at the time. So, Ford approached Firestone to ask about solid-rubber tires as a substitute. Firestone had a different idea. “They were pneumatic tires,” Ford later remembered. Harvey Firestone’s career, and the path of an industry, was forever altered.

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Nigel Mansell
Legends April 13, 2015

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He scrapped his way up the racing ladder by doing the tough stuff, at one point mortgaging his home to salvage his Formula One career. He stayed there by fighting for every position on every circuit. Originally brought into F1 by the legendary Lotus team owned by Colin Chapman, Nigel Mansell had a career marked by close misses, tragic accidents and equipment failure.

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Kenny Howard
Legends April 6, 2015

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He lived life hard, but at least he did it on his own terms. Today, many years after his death in 1992, the Von Dutch name is a fashion brand. And who would’ve thought it? Probably not the real Von Dutch – Kenny Howard – who was a pioneer of the 1960s custom car craze. Born in 1929, he transformed pin-striping into an art form. It all began with his father, who was a professional sign painter. Howard picked up the craft and by the age of 10 was able to paint like a pro.

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James Garner
Legends Feb 23, 2015

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Born James Bumgarner in 1928, the Oklahoma native always excelled in movie roles that involved automobiles, driving, and racing, three of his greatest loves and interests. Garner was selected to play Formula One Pete Aron in the 1966 film Grand Prix, where his natural ability behind the wheel surprised even the world-class drivers on set.

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Nash Metropolitan
Legends Feb 16, 2015

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The Nash Metropolitan wasn’t flashy or powerful, but it also didn’t cost much. These, of course, are virtues of every small car that followed the “Met’s” footsteps. The Met was the brainchild of George Mason, president of Nash-Kelvinator and a straight believer in small, lightweight automobiles. His tiny two seat commuter featured an exterior spare tire and unique indentations in both doors that served as arm rests.

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Craig Breedlove
Legends Feb 9, 2015

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It’s 1997 and Craig Breedlove is strapped to the jet engine from a fighter plane and is blasting along at 675 mph. . . in a car. Actually, the “Spirit of America” doesn’t exactly pass for a car in the traditional sense, but what you’re used to being the fastest human alive-on the ground-practicality and rules are out the window. Today, the land-speed record is actually slightly more than the speed of sound, nearly 100 mph faster than Breedlove’s 675.

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De Tomaso Pantera
Legends Feb 2, 2015

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As rolling as, the De Tomaso Pantera had few equals. On price alone it should have been one of the most successful sports machines ever created, but it didn’t turn out that way. The idea behind the “Pamther” was straightforward enough. Ford was asked to import its Italian-crafted sports car to North America and offer it to the public for less than half of the price of other competitors. The finished result was unveiled at the 1970 New York Auto Show. Priced at $10,000. . .

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Jack Roush
Legends Jan 26, 2015

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One of NASCAR’S best-known race-team owners, sly-cat brainiac Jack Roush built his life one mid-term paper, one race engine and one victory at a time. Born in Manchester, Ohio, in 1942, he went on to study math and physics and was quickly recruited as a Ford engineer in charge of assembly and tooling. But, five years later, the rush of racing took him to a group of local drag racers for whom he built engines and related equipment. Soon, he was in hot demand and began his own engine-development company.

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