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I thought about it, though. I used to pass a Fiat dealer on my way to work, during the period when the 131 Mirafiori had come on the market. My Rover 2000 was a few years old, and I noted that the 131, later called “Brava,” had twin overhead cams, to my Rover’s single, and….
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On Independence Day 1894, Elwood Haynes took his new car for a ride. Haynes, of Kokomo, Indiana, had the car, which he designed and had built over the previous winter, towed out to the country behind a team of horses, so as not to cause a commotion in town. It started easily, and took the….
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Easter weekend brings the International Auto Show to New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. This year, skies are blue regardless of the weather, as Saturn livens its image with a “Red Line” intercooled turbo version of the Sky roadster introduced at Detroit in January. Joining it are the new Aura mid-size sedan and Outlook….
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You’re the top; you’re a Brewster body,” wrote Cole Porter in 1934, to rhyme with “You’re the top; you’re a Ritz hot toddy.” The custom coachwork business at Brewster & Co. was waning, but the American public knew that a Brewster body was indeed “the top.” The Brewsters began building carriages early in the nineteenth….
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