Category Archives: Legends

Cale Yarborough – Legends July 28, 2014

Untitled-50.inddOverview

Don’t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media’s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they’re produced. Click here to get started.

If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit www.shiftweekly.com to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.

Description

Darlington Raceway wasn’t more than a hop, skip and jump from his home in Sardis, S.C., a dusty town formed at the crossroads of Creek Road,  Dogwood Road and State Road 403. When you grew up in South Carolina in the 1950s, you did one of two things: grew tobacco…

Please contact us to order this feature.

Tim Flock – Legends July 21, 2014

Legends_FLOCKOverview

Don’t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media’s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they’re produced. Click here to get started.

If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit www.shiftweekly.com to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.

Description

NASCAR pioneer Tim Flock was a classic case study in hard living and fast driving. In fact, you could say he had a monkey on his back. Literally. The critter’s name was Jocko Flocko and for one race, Tim Flock had a co-pilot to help him take the checkered flag.

Please contact us to order this feature.

Nicolaus Otto – Legends July 14, 2014

Untitled-155.inddOverview

Don’t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media’s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they’re produced. Click here to get started.

If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit www.shiftweekly.com to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.

Description

Born more than 180 years ago, Nicolaus August Otto had a fascination with all things mechanical, forever delving into technical books that discussed and explained the latest mechanical inventions.

Please contact us to order this feature.

Rudoul Diesel – Legends July 7, 2014

Untitled-133.inddOverview

Don’t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media’s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they’re produced. Click here to get started.

If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit www.shiftweekly.com to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.

Description

He was a Paris-born boy who grew up to be a linguist, a thermal engineer, a connoisseur of the arts and the inventor of an engine that, to this day, would bear his name. After an education in England and Germany, he found his first work as a refrigerator engineer, but his true love…

Please contact us to order this feature.

John W. Anderson – Legends June 30, 2014

Untitled-110.inddOverview

Don’t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media’s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they’re produced. Click here to get started.

If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit www.shiftweekly.com to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.

Description

They said he was the kind of guy who always had a patent pending. When John W. Anderson was just a teenager, he knew how to work a saw mill and knew his way around a tile factory…

Please contact us to order this feature.

Jacky ICKX – Legends June 23, 2014

Legends_WAVERINGOverview

Don’t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media’s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they’re produced. Click here to get started.

If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit www.shiftweekly.com to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.

Description

A tinkerer from the time he could walk, Wavering had already built his first radio at age 14, in 1921, shortly after graduating from grade school.

Please contact us to order this feature.

Jacky ICKX – Legends June 16, 2014

Untitled-58.inddOverview

Don’t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media’s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they’re produced. Click here to get started.

If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit www.shiftweekly.com to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.

Description

Growing up in Belgium, fast cars weren’t even part of the equation for the son of a motorsports journalist who carried the short, how-do-you-pronounce-it last name. And then something happened to Jacky Ickx (pronounced “eeks”).

Please contact us to order this feature.

Jim Wangers – Legends June 2, 2014

Untitled-12.inddOverview

Don’t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media’s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they’re produced. Click here to get started.

If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit www.shiftweekly.com to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.

Description

During the dawn of the Musclecar era, image was everything and advertising visionary Jim Wangers was out to prove it. The marketing brains behind the Pontiac GTO, Wangers’ creative advertising inspired a nation to rally behind a company that was mostly known for its conservative sedans.

Please contact us to order this feature.

Preston Tucker – Legends June 9, 2014

Untitled-38.inddOverview

Don’t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media’s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they’re produced. Click here to get started.

If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit www.shiftweekly.com to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.

Description

As a teenager, he bought cars out of junkyards, rebuilt them and then sold them for profit. As a young man he worked for Cadillac and Ford and also walked the beat as a policeman in Lincoln Park, Mich., chasing criminals and investigating car accidents involving some of the primitive, unsafe vehicles of the 1930s, a job that would leave an indelible impression.

Please contact us to order this feature.

Ed Big Daddy Roth – Legends May 26, 2014

Untitled-23.inddOverview

Don’t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media’s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they’re produced. Click here to get started.

If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit www.shiftweekly.com to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.

Description

He was just a simple man working out of a simple garage creating things with his bare hands. Using junkyard parts and fiberglass, a relatively new material then, he was building cars because they were the only thing he truly loved.

Please contact us to order this feature.