Category Archives: Legends

James Dean – Legends May 19, 2014

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His interest began at age 18 in Fairmont, Ind., when his father bought him a 1939 Chev. At the time, he had been riding motorcycles for a couple of years and eventually began racing.

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King Richard Petty – Legends May 12, 2014

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He nearly single-handedly transformed NASCAR from a regional racing series into a mega-million-dollar international spectacle. And Richard Petty did it the hard way by winning his unfair share of races: 200 to be exact.

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Chuck Jordan, April 28, 2014

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Bill Mitchell used to sit at his desk. So did Harley Earl. As only the fourth person in 78 years to head General Motors’ design studio, Chuck Jordan was also a legend. “It was an awesome responsibility,” he once said.

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W.O. Bentley, April 21, 2014

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Born in 1888, Walter Owen Bentley was the youngest of nine children. Affectionately known as “W.O.”, he was a railway engineer apprentice in England before he was anything else.

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Dino – Legends, March 24, 2014

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As the son of Enzo, it was Dino Ferrari’s destiny to some day take over the reins of the company his father built. Sadly, he died a young man from poor health after living just 24 years. As a tribute to his son, Enzo commissioned a rolling automotive monument, hoping the Dino model would be the beginning of a new line of smaller and lighter exotics.

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Giuseppe Bertone – Legends, March 17, 2014

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His eyes might have been Giuseppe “Nuccio” Bertone’s greatest assets. Seven years after his death at age 82, Bertone’s talent endures: the Lamborghini Espada and Countach; the Fiat 850 Spider; and the tribute to Enzo Ferrari’s son, the Dino coupe. He has been called the greatest nurturer of design talent in history.

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Enzo Ferrari – Legends, March 10, 2014

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You might not know the man, but you definitely know about the cars his company has built!

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Garrett Augustus Morgan – Legends, March 3, 2014

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Talk about inventions. There was the hair straightener and the zig-zag stitching attachment for the sewing machine. There was the gas mask and one of his most significant inventions, the traffic signal.

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Alexander Winton – Legends, Feb 24, 2014

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The challenge was 10 laps around the Detroit driving Club in Grosse Point,Mich. It was Oct. 10, 1901. It’s obvious today that  Alexander Winton didn’t win the race with the 38-year-old Henry Ford.

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Larry Shinoda – Legends, Feb 10, 2014

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Larry Shinoda was a tiny man who became a larger-than-life legend. Born Lawrence Kiyoshi Shinoda into a Japanese-American family in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1930, Shinoda always…

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