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So I’m going to be 50 years old this year. Five decades on this rock. I'm generally pretty blase about milestone birthdays, but I feel like this is one I should celebrate in some fashion. I thought about doing one of those epic trip things that everyone I know does. Three weeks rock climbing and kayaking Tibet or some such fantastic journey. Now I love pointless adventures more than most, but…
1952 International Farmall AM TractorThe Australian arm of International Harvester liked to do things its own way, and several of its models are unique to the land down under. The engineers based in Geelong, Australia, would often create models that blended various features from across the IH catalog. This Farmall AM is the Aussie version of the Farmall M. This restored example was owned by Eric…
The following is an excerpt from Class of '99 by John Oreovicz. Relive the 1999 CART season like never before with this masterful combination of contemporary reporting and new interviews with many of the key players, all of which bring the year’s personalities and storylines to life with nuance, depth, and reflection. Carl Haas was eccentric, intensely private, and almost always a soft-…
Live from the broadcast booth, Paul Page captured the excitement of twenty-seven Indy 500 races, first as the “Voice of the Indy 500” for the radio broadcast and then as chief announcer for the ABC telecast. From his first race as a pit reporter to his semiretirement in 2016, generations of fans have witnessed the Greatest Spectacle in Racing as told by Paul Page.Below is an excerpt from his…
A fearless pioneer and a versatile and gifted driver, Paula Murphy was the first woman to pilot a jet car to a Bonneville Salt Flats speed record, the first woman to secure an NHRA Funny Car license, and much more. The following is an excerpt from The Fastest Woman on Wheels: The Life of Paula Murphy.Paula Murphy scored another first on November 11, 1963.Positioned as a tire test season for…
The following is an excerpt from the book John Britten by Tim Hanna, The book covers how independent John Britten and his revolutionary racing machines beat the factory-built twin-cylinder motorcycles of the time. The legend of the man and machine is one of the most incredible engineering and design feats of the twentieth century.In this excerpt, the Britten Team takes on their first of…
The following is an excerpt from John Britten by Tim Hanna. The book chronicles how independent builder John Britten and his revolutionary racing machine beat the factory-built twin-cylinder motorcycles of the 1990s. The story of the man and his machines is one of the most incredible engineering and design feats of the twentieth century.In this excerpt, the Britten motorcycle comes to race…
The following is an excerpt from Snoopy and the Spy by Lee Klancher. The stakes had never been higher than they were on the farm fields of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The era marked one of the hardest economic environments of the twentieth century, and two of the world’s toughest competitors were locked in a high-horsepower arms race to create the world’s best piece of agricultural equipment…