GreatGarages- The Jeep: 80 and Still Battle Tough
If the Higgins Boat won the war at the beachheads, and the Allied air forces above, the Jeep drove home the victory. Although many know the super-civilianized versions in today’s actual and virtual car showrooms, the Jeep was originally designed and built to go to war, wherever it was called to service and for whatever […]
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Win a 427 Cobra from the Cobra Experience
Drive home a dream Snake this summer from the Cobra Experience in Martinez, California. The 25,000-square-foot facility showcases approximately 23–29 Shelby-related cars including the history-making Shelby Cobra, GT-40, Daytona Coupe and GT350. Carroll Shelby, the Texas-born Le Mans-winning driver and entrepreneur campaigned the cars to historic success from 1962 to 1968 from his Shelby American […]
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GreatGarages: Gunther & Maggie’s Newport Car Museum
“Sell them or share them.” That’s what Maggie Buerman said to her husband Gunther about five years ago while they were participating in the other family passion: sailboat racing in their 12-meter New Zealand. “She said: ‘If you’re not going to sell some of these cars, then we need to share them with the public.’ […]
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GreatGarages: Dennis Hirschbrunner Builds a Fire Truck Museum in Columbus, Nebraska
Dennis Hirschbrunner’s family have been fighting fires for more than a century in the country’s heartland. Today, in a 105-year-old building in downtown Columbus, Nebraska, he’s celebrating that personal legacy and everyone who fights fires nationwide. Since its founding in 1856 at the confluence of the Loup and Platte rivers, Columbus has been a shipping […]
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