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The company currently operates out of Charlotte, North Carolina, but is no longer a race team. Holman-Moody continues to manufacture racing vehicles using vintage parts and methods, along with special editions of modern Ford sports cars. [1] The race team built virtually all of the factory Ford racing vehicles of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. [2]
Robert Clifton "Rabbit" Pitts (July 27, 1979 – August 25, 2024) was an American businessman, television personality, and classic car enthusiast. He was best known for co-starring in the Netflix series Tex-Mex Motors, and his storytelling on the YouTube channel VINwiki. He died at the age of 45 after being diagnosed with stomach cancer.
In October 2007, Kauffman purchased part ownership of Michael Waltrip Racing, a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team. [3] Kaufman also owns RK Motors, a car collection in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he resides; [4] he also competes in sports car racing events and has competed in the 2011 and 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 2012 and 2013 24 Hours of Daytona, and in the Rolex Sports Car Series. [3]
Classic.com’s five-year sales tracker has an average price of $14,556 for a 1977-1986 W123. Toyota Supra As McGuire noted, models from the late 1980s through the early 2000s are gaining in ...
Car 85 was subsequently sold, stripped of its motors and seats, and sold to the N.C. Air National Guard, which used it for office space at the Charlotte airport. [13] In 1939-1940, [ 13 ] it was again sold and converted into a diner/concession stand at Caldwell Station, N.C., being used in this role until the early 1950s. [ 15 ]
Toronto's horse-drawn streetcar operations ended in 1891. New York City saw regular horsecar service last until 1917. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Sarah Street line lasted until 1923. The last regular mule-drawn cars in the United States ran in Sulphur Rock, Arkansas, until 1926 and were commemorated by a U.S. Postage Stamp issued in 1983. [5]
Smith began promoting stock-car events as a 17-year-old in Midland, North Carolina, in the middle of a cornfield he nicknamed the "Dust Bowl". [2] In 1949, Smith took over the National Stock Car Racing Association (NSCRA), a league that had formed a year earlier in 1948 and was one of several fledgling stock-car sanctioning bodies that were direct competitors to NASCAR, which had been founded ...
"Big Red" is one of the early true pro-touring muscle cars, the first Silver State Classic Unlimited-class record holder. The car was built in 1987 by R. J. and Dan Gottlieb and crew using a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro for the main platform. The power came from a 540 c.i. Lingenfelter-built, aluminum Donovan big-block Chevrolet V8 making 750 lb-ft of ...