Category Archives: Legends

Chip Foose
Legends Nov 10, 2014

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Perhaps best known for the TV show Overhaulin’, award-winning designer Chip Foose is quite possibly the first of his breed to achieve mass recognition. On the same show, where an unsuspecting owner’s vehicle is made over in a short timeframe, it is also important not to label Foose as the king of the quick hit. In fact, he has created a legacy of rolling automotive art well beyond his 51 years.

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Soichiro Honda
Legends Nov 3, 2014

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After World War II, with gas shortages crippling his country, the Honda Motorcycle Co was born. Under Honda’s leadership it would become one of Japan’s top engine manufacturers. Honda did a lot of his own market research, traveling to races around the world to examine the competition and incorporate it into his own product. In five years, Honda would go from a first-time entry in motorcycle racing to winning a manufacturers title. That success turned into huge sales numbers.

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Cecil Kimber
Legends Oct 27, 2014

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He had a zest for life and a nose for business. However, the man who built what becamse the most popular British sports-car marque in history, wasn’t much of a mechanic and tragically, never saw his little car develop. “A sports car should be fast,” Cecil Kimber once said, “even when it is standing still.”

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Acura NSX
Legends Oct 20, 2014

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Nearly 25 years ago, few thought it was possible, but the 1991 Acura NSX did not disappoint. Honda wanted to build a sports car that reflected its dominance in the engine construction for Formula One open-wheel racing. The NSX challenged European exotics by offering similar, if not better, performance in an easy-to-drive package, that was almost as easy on the wallet.

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Robert Bosch
Legends Oct 13, 2014

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The spark off automotive genius begins on a cold December day late in 1901, in a small German factory. A 30-year old man is bent over at the waist, glancing over the shoulder of his talented assistant. “You really have hit the bulls-eye,” Robert Bosch tells Gottlob Honold, slapping him on the back. In Honold’s hand is the world’s first spark plug.

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Fangio
Legends Oct 6, 2014

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This native of Argentina, and one of the best drivers to have ever raced, enjoyed his greatest triumphs at an age when most of his contemporaries had already retired – or died – behind the wheel. From 1950-’58, Fangio captured the Formula One World Championship five times, winning 24 of 51 events entered. Before racing, Fangio actually worked as a junior mechanic at a Studebaker dealership in his hometown of Buenos Aries.

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Don Garlits
Legends Sept 29, 2014

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Whether it was one of his countless speed milestones, 140-plus event wins or 17 championships in drag racing’s most prominent – and dangerous – series, Don “Big Daddy” Garlits was a pioneer, a competitor and an entrepeneur all wrapped up in one body. What he lacked in money during the early days of his career in the 1950’s he more than made up for with ingenuity and surgeon-like detail.

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Jules Felix Philippe Albert de Dion
– Legends Sept 22, 2014

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DeDion wanted to create his own cars and his first invention came about mainly as a result of a curiousity he has after seeing a model steam locomotive in a Paris toy shop. With his partners, he quickly became part of an engine empire from the first boilers and steam engines. At first, de Dion’s company patented a rear axle that improved the ride of vehicles, then produced a self-propelled steam vehicle in 1882.

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Jack Brabham – Legends Aug 25, 2014

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Jack Brabham wasn’t just a race driver, he was a national treasure. He beat the odds, bucked the system and blazed the trails for future generations of Australian drivers. Need proof? Jack Brabham became Sir Jack Brabham in 1979, one of the only people in history to be knighted for his contributions to motorsports.

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Robert E. Petersen – Legends Aug 11, 2014

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Stories were Robert E. “Pete”-Petersen’s magical way of bringing everything together and the main reason why one of the most successful publishing entrepreneurs in the history of the car-magazine business was so good at what he did.

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