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It goes without saying that, over the course of its history, auto racing in the U.S. has not had a lot of African American participants. That’s a sad state of affairs and when an individual of color does get behind the wheel, and makes a name for themselves, it’s a noteworthy accomplishment. One such driver was…

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Everybody loves a David and Goliath story, one about a little guy overcoming both the odds and a vastly bigger foe. It’s empowering, and at least offers the illusion that we as a species value fairness and egalitarianism in all aspects of our lives. Of course that’s a bunch of baloney and the fact of…

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Just exactly how many times does Nicolas Cage have to check out of Hell and fight ultimate evil in order to save someone he loves? Well, so far he’s done so on a motorcycle in Ghost Rider and – in a series of amazing American muscle cars – in Drive Angry, and today we’ve got…

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Was Preston Tucker a conman, leading his investors down a blind alley with a sure to fail scheme of entering the hotly competitive U.S. auto market? Some would have you believe that was the case, but not Francis Ford Coppola. To him, Tucker was Jeff Bridges, and you can’t not love Jeff Bridges. Tucker, The Man And…

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Considering all the car chase and crash movies made in the early ’70s it’s a wonder that there are any automobiles from the era left at all. If you believe Hollywood of the time, Detroit’s main purpose was to churn out cars that were predestined to end up in a roadside ditch or upside-down. One…

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American International Pictures was founded in 1954 and their first release was The Fast and the Furious. No, not that Fast and Furious, but a B-grade black and white actioner in which a fugitive kidnaps a girl while carjacking her Jag. AIP developed a system for churning out low-budget grind house fare aimed at teens,…

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What if you were fast and were furious, and were also insanely rich? Would you want to race some of the last decade’s most expensive and highest performance hypercars? Of course you would. In fact, you’d race them to the redline. That’s just what happens in 2007’s cars and crashes actioner, Redline. This movie is perhaps…

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“You just can’t stay seventeen forever.” So says Ron Howard’s character in George Lucas’ iconic 1973 cruisin’ and a-bruisin’ film, American Graffiti. Of course for generations of kids, growing up has been their primary goal, only leading to the discovery once reaching adulthood that staying seventeen forever wouldn’t have been such a bad thing. American Graffiti…

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