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From the monthly archives:

March 2009

The West Coast Crew gets flamed on the way to Fast & Furious screening

March 31, 2009

Our men on the West Coast are headed to an advance screening of the new Fast & Furious flick tonight except that they already went last night. Of course there was nobody at the theater that night because they were a day early. Its a good thing they were premature, because one of the highways [...]

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1970 Sebring 12 Hours: The view from a camera toting corner marshal

March 30, 2009

We’ve been very fortunate here in The Garage to be able to share some great moments in racing through the lens of Lou Galanos over the past months. The guy has an incredible eye and happily spent time shooting in the days when safety rules were a little more lax than they are today. Earlier [...]

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1964 12 Hours of Sebring caught on home video

March 29, 2009

We tend to take video for granted these days, given that just about every point and shoot camera can take some fairly decent footage to be shared online just moments later. Fortunately for us, some folks back in the day took the time to film some racing and are now able to share them online [...]

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2009 Mazda CX-7 GT: More March Break road tripping

March 29, 2009

For March break this year, the Grant family did things a bit a bit differently than we have in the past. We went somewhere for a change! In fact, we actually took two road trips. First we piled 4 of us into the 6 passenger Mazda5 for a blast to Niagara Falls and then we [...]

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Muscle Milk Trans Am 2009 season opener from in car

March 28, 2009

With all the discussions of Trans Am, NASA and Spec e30 these days in The Garage, it was pretty cool to come across the story of the first Muscle Milk Trans Am race of the season this morning at Axis of Oversteer. 2008 NASA Spec e30 National champ Michael Skeen started at the back of [...]

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The birth of NASA: a bit of racing history

March 27, 2009

A few months ago, I was doing a bit of research to back up a statement I was going to make in a post about the Trans Am series. Yes, I actually do that on occasion. In that post I promised to visit the history of the formation of the National Auto Sport Association. Unfortunately, [...]

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Worlds smallest F1 car laps Infineon with on board cam

March 26, 2009

At last weekend’s NASA race at Infineon Raceway, there was a bit of a record set. Ken Kurtz took a lap in the smallest car to ever go around the circuit. The car? A 1/5 scale R/C Formula 1 car! Things were going along just great until a 5 watt radio was keyed right next [...]

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Porsche announces Cayenne GTS Porsche Design Edition 3

March 25, 2009

I have to admit that I’ve never been a sucker for the matched luggage side of the Euro sports car world. Its not that I don’t get the appeal of quality travel gear, I just don’t see the need for it to match my car stitch for stitch. Of course I’ve never been in a [...]

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MINI Clubman on ice

March 25, 2009

Regular readers know that the most fun I’ve had in a car over these nasty winter months was the week I spent with the MINI Clubman. Over in Germany, those autobahners are having even more fun than I did with a bit of formation driving!

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KTM RC8 – Poetry as Bloodsport

March 23, 2009

Is the KTM RC8 as stunning to ride as it is to look at? Neil Johnston takes to the roads on this very rare offering to find out.

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