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Image 1 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 2 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 3 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 4 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 5 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 6 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 7 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 8 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 9 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 10 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 11 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 12 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 13 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 14 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 15 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 16 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 17 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 18 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 19 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
Image 20 — Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.
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Trained in the fine art of crafting stained glass windows, Karla Maxwell discovered enameling, where crushed colored glass is fused to metal using the cloisonné process. She has since turned her talent to restoring automotive badges, and has been in demand for years. Her work is fascinating.

u/Maynard078 — 2 hours ago
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Fresh from their LeMans campaign with the GT-R LM, Nissan Motorsports International (NISMO) introduced the limited-run 400R in 1995 as a road-legal dissertation on what they had learned through their endurance racing ventures. The "R" stood for Racing and "400" denoted its reported BHP output.

u/Maynard078 — 3 hours ago
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Don Long built more than 200 top fuel cars and another 40 funny cars; his skills in chassis design are legendary. A 200" Don Long slingshot running an Ed Donovan built 392" Hemi and sporting fresh Don Kirby paint may just be my idea of a good time.

u/Maynard078 — 7 hours ago
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Moretti was among a handful of boutique carrozzeria that flourished in the Italian motorsports scene during the 1950s, and this 1955 1200 Sport Spider is but one of two examples designed by the ever-prolific Giovanni Michelotti. Power is by Moretti's own 1.2-liter DOHC four paired with a 4-speed.

u/Maynard078 — 7 hours ago
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The Gary Gabelich four-wheel-drive Vega funny car was designed with an experimental stiff monocoque chassis. It made one pass in 1972 before crashing heavily.

u/Maynard078 — 15 hours ago
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Before he became an actor, Sebastian Cabot worked as a mechanic and chauffeur, which fueled his lifelong passion for classic cars. He later owned a 1939 Lagonda V12 that underwent a full decade of meticulous restoration by its new owners. The final photo shows the car before it was restored.

u/Maynard078 — 22 hours ago
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From 1961 through 1969, the suicide-door Lincoln Continental defined American automotive luxury. Introduced in concept form with V-12 power by Edsel Ford in 1939, shifting tastes led Lincoln execs to shelve the brand in 2020 in favor of SUVs.

u/Maynard078 — 23 hours ago
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Bombshell Betty is a ‘52 Buick Super Riviera built to compete in Bonneville’s XO/GCC class, which consists of old school gas-powered cars topping out around 141 mph. Those bomb-shaped headlamp buckets might add to the aero of the car, or they might not. Regardless, they look cool as hell.

u/Maynard078 — 1 day ago
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Mitsubishi's California design studio built a handsome 2-seat drop-top off the Laser/Talon/Eagle platform and dubbed it the Mitsubishi X2S. Powered by a 2-liter, DOHC turbocharged engine it was a hit on the show circuit and dealer previews. Production was considered but never stood a chance.

u/Maynard078 — 2 days ago
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In 1973, at the height of the OPEC oil crisis, dad parked his big ol’ ‘69 Imperial and went looking for something more economical. Asking “Whaddya got around back,” his old pal Harley stuck dad with a clapped out- ‘66 Lotus Cortina for the princely sum of $150, left behind by an ex-pat Purdue prof.

Being an ace mechanic himself, dad dragged it home, welded in new floorboards, threw in a battery, tuned the SUs (a first for him), aligned the clutch, and unstuck the flywheel.

He drove it like Jim Clark for the next three years or so, grinning like a madman all the while.

He sold it just a few months before I got my driver’s license.

Grrr.

u/Maynard078 — 3 days ago
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For years many have said they don't all have to be Rosso Corsa; here's evidence in all its proper Marrone Colorado glory. Pininfarina's Leonardo Fioravanti did the masterful design of the landmark Ferrari 365GTS/4 Daytona Spider; Scaglietti unerringly transferred it to metal.

u/Maynard078 — 4 days ago
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Raymond Beadle got his start driving for Big Mike Burkhart in this sweet Vega funny car back in '72. Burkhart's cars were always top-notch.

u/Maynard078 — 4 days ago
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Don Garlits with his signature all-black "Wynn's Jammer" T/Fuel dragster in the late 1960s; I'm thinking this was at Great Lakes but I'm probably wrong. No matter; it's still the Swamp Rat at his touring best. He built the motor and Swingle welded the chassis.

u/Maynard078 — 4 days ago
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In the 1946 Coppa Brezzi in Turin, Tazio Nuvolari and his Cisitalia led at the end of the first lap. On his next pass of the pits, he brandished the steering wheel that had come off in his hands. He completed another lap by man-handling the steering column, then came in to have the wheel replaced.

u/Maynard078 — 4 days ago
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When I dream, I sometimes dream of this: Holding on for dear life while crapping my pants and hanging the laundry at Pomona or Bakersfield, happy just to have made it to the end of another 1320.

u/Maynard078 — 4 days ago