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Monterey Car Week Photo Dump: Vintage Racing Is Best Racing
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The Monterey Motorsport Reunion, colloquially known as “The Historics”, was celebrating Ford’s glorious GT350 this year. Not the new one, though there were a bunch of those floating around because, you know, cross promotion and corporate synergy and all that jazz. Anyway, the OG GT350 has always been my favorite mustang, because it was the…
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Monterey Car Week Photo Dump: LeMons and P-Cars
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Starting the day with a Relient Robin is hardly a bad way to start the day. I’ve seen only a handful of these in person, and I’m always geeked to see one. While Monterey Car Week is always about super cars and vintage racing and concours d’elegance, I always love showing up and seeing the…
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Up Close and Personal with the 2001 BMW M3 GTR Road Car
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As far as BMWs go, this is about as rare as it gets. What you’re looking at here (and what I’m about to cover in a thick layer of Roundel-shaped dribble) is a 2001 BMW (E46) M3 GTR road car. That “GTR” and “road car” designation is what’s important here because only six cars were…
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Modern Art Monday: Your 2015 Pebble Beach Concours Top Dog
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Monterey Car Week has come to a close. Our man Mad Science himself was there, and he took in the sights and sounds at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion. Young Greg Catch-A-Durian-Fruit was there with his family, and Parsh-Phanatic Bradley BrownHell was there to sniff the tailpipes of anything with an engine that lay flat. We…
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Monterey Auto Week: Legends of the Autobahn
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In the cabal that is Monterey Auto Week, an upstart appeared in 2009. It went by “Legends of the Autobahn“. It is a free event held just down the road from The Quail’s Motorsport Gathering, a prestigious event that is second only to Sunday’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. What is Legends? Essentially, it is a…