Late Model Domestic
In the ‘50s and ‘60s designers and engineers were allowed to be creative in their designs and their mechanical abilities and as a result there were many stylish and fast cars built. This was a time when the different manufacturers were not doing cookie cutter cars that all looked the same. Ford, Chrysler, General Motors and AMC were all building cars that were totally different from each other in an effort to get buyers into their showrooms.
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Motorcycles
Harley-Davidson is the premier American motorcycle and it certainly has a long and illustrious history. It all started when William Harley and his childhood friend, Arthur Davidson, founded Harley-Davidson in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1901. The story begins when William Harley wanted to make a small engine to power a bicycle, so he started building a small 7.07ci engine that was made in Henry Melk’s machine shop.
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Specialty Cars
The term Specialty Car covers a wide range of different cars such as the Tri-year Chevys, restored muscle cars, mildly modified 1959 through 1970 cars that are sometimes called resto-mods, and the newest car style that’s gaining popularity, the pro touring car, which can cover all of the years.
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Drag Racing
Automobile acceleration races probably started in the Model T days and that was a time when mechanics were discovering ways of increasing horsepower so they could have the fastest car in town. Eventually the idea of automotive racing carried over before and after World War II and the speed parts industry started growing rapidly to feed the quest for speed.
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Camaro
The management executives at Chevrolet were taken by surprise and they didn’t have a car that could compete with the fast selling new Mustang. There wasn’t even a Mustang competitor on the drawing boards. The Nova was competing with the Falcon and it was having a hard time doing that. The word came down from the management to build a Chevrolet that could competewith the Mustang, but that wasn’t an easy assignment.
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Late Model Import
The first cars that were actually imported to the United States by popular demand were the English sports cars such as the MG, the Jaguar and the Austin Healey. During the war many service men got a chance to drive the English sports cars and they had a good time, so when they returned home from the war they wanted to buy sports cars here in the States.
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Mustang
In 1961 Lee Iacocca, the Vice President and General Manager of Ford Division decided that Ford needed a nice looking sporty car that would seat four people, feature bucket seats, have a floor mounted shifter. He also wanted the car to be no more than 180 inches long, weigh 2,500 pounds and sell for less than $2,500.
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Street Rods
Street rods are generally considered to be cars built between the Model T years and 1948 for Fords and similar years for Chevy, Plymouth and Dodge products. Ford has always been the most popular car to turn into a street rod so Wilwood has built brakekits that will fit Fords from the Model T to 1948, along with the other makes of cars.
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Corvette
The management at General Motors was on top of all of the car activity that was happening in the United States and they saw an interest English sports cars. Until then there were no plans to make a sports car, but in 1951 chief designer, Harley Earl, the man who invented the concept car, decided to build an American sports car concept based on a Chevy to see if there was some interest.
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Open Wheel: Sprint & Midget
Circle track racing can be traced back to the late 1800s when some of the original horseless carriages were being built. Henry Ford was one of the pioneers of the new technology at the turn of the century and he introduced a primitive horseless carriage that he called a quadracycle to the public.
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Honda
The Honda story goes way back to. November 18, 1906 when Soichiro Honda was born. His father was a blacksmith and his mother was a weaver so through genetics he was good with his hands and could build almost anything. His father expanded the blacksmith business into fixing bicycles and eventually selling them so Soichiro became very familiar with the mechanics behind them.
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