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• Douglas Meythaler
  ...s subject matter. Growing up with a father who restored a 1919 Ford Model T Touring and a family of all boys, it’s no accident that automotive subjec *[http://www.transportationguild.com/Home.html More Info at TransportationGuild.com]
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• Coggiola
  ...ight|250px|'''The ''Sonetto Super Sport'' was exhibited for the first time at the Stockholm Exhibition of 1956 and was originally designed for car racing [[Image:Coggiola T-Rex.jpg|thumb|left|250px|'''Coggiola T-Rex''']]
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• FAST
  ...he head, three marches forward, crank and piston aluminum, and 80 hp power at 4500 rpm. ...], [[Caberto Conelli]] and [[Eugenio Beria]] of Argentina, were classified at the wheel of a FAST in the first and second place respectively in their cat
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• Fiat 900
  ...round:#505050; color:#fff; border-bottom:1px solid #999;" |[[File:Fiat 900 T 2.JPG|250px]] ! colspan=2 |'''Fiat 900 T'''
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• CanAm
  ...Rodriguez]], [[Vic Elford]], and [[Jackie Stewart]] all drove Can Am cars at one time or another. ...en costs got very much out of hand, but during its height Can Am cars were at the cutting edge of racing technology. Noted constructors in the Can Am Ser
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• Bugatti Automobiles SAS
  At the urging of then-chairman, [[Ferdinand Piëch]], Volkswagen purchased the ...kfurt. The final Bugatti concept was not an ItalDesign one: VW introduced at the 1999 [[Tokyo Motor Show]] — the VW-designed [[Bugatti EB 18/4|EB
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• Neil Hodgson
  ...angburgh]], on a [[Yamaha Motor Company|Yamaha TZR125]]. His first win was at the Three Sisters meeting in that same year. He came 8th in his first seaso ...in the series. Fellow Lancastrian [[Carl Fogarty|"King" Carl Fogarty]] was at the height of his powers, with 9th Hodgsons best championship finish
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• Ferrari 312T
  ...|[[File:LaudaNiki19760731Ferrari312T2.jpg|280px]]'''Niki Lauda practicing at the [[Nürburgring]] during the [[1976 German Grand Prix]]''' ...ul and ultra reliable [[Flat-12]] [[engine]] which gave around 510bhp, the T in the name stood for 'transverse', as the gearbox was mounted in this way,
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• Rubens Barrichello
  ...9;" |[[Image:barrichello_2002.jpg|thumb|220px|center|'''Rubens Barrichello at the USGP in 2002''']] ...g [[Briton]] named [[David Coulthard]]. He very nearly joined Formula One at just 19 [[year]]s of age but joined [[Formula 3000]] instead. There would
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• SIM
  ...arinate SIM-Moretti of 125 cc engine with dual piston. In 1954, production at '''SIM''' remained unchanged, with the exception of the ''Aries'', which be
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• Antonio Ascari
  ...1 race the following season on the [[Nurburgring]] circuit and added a win at [[Monza]], finishing runner up to [[Juan Manuel Fangio]]. ...points a driver could earn, but drivers were given points for fastest laps at the time, and he had to share a half point with another driver in one race.
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• Ferrari 348
  |Related:||[[Ferrari Mondial#Mondial t|Ferrari Mondial t]] ...ith a [[transverse]] gearbox, like the [[Ferrari Mondial#Mondial t|Mondial t]] with which the 348 shares many components. This was a major switch for F
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• Fiat 501
  ...e]] from 1919 to 1926. The [[engine]] was a 1460 cc, 4 cylinder with 23 hp at 2600 rpm and could reach a maximum speed of 70 km/h. ...of these markets over the Atlantic by focusing on the import on his model "T". The European market had therefore a need of a study, competitive model li
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• Rudolf Caracciola
  '''Rudolf Caracciola''' (b. [[January 30]], [[1901]] at [[Remagen]], [[Germany]], d. [[September 28]], [[1959]]) ...cedes-Benz]] in 1922. In 1926, he entered the first-ever German Grand Prix at the [[AVUS]] track near Berlin and promptly won the race, much to the amaze
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• Tour of Britain
  ::At its peak, this was a two-week amateur event similar in status to the [[Peac ...romoted and attracted a number of well-known teams such as [[T-Mobile Team|T-Mobile]] ([[Germany]]) and [[U.S. Postal Service cycling team|U.S. Postal S
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• Torque
  ...lied six metres from the fulcrum. This assumes the force is in a direction at [[right angle]]s to the straight lever. where '''L''' is the angular momentum vector, and t stands for time. As a consequence of either of these definitions, torque is
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• Della Ferrera
  ...a 499cc V-twin Della Ferrera race that was the fastest motorcycle in Italy at that time. ...portant Italian brands. Production was limited as the bikes were built one at a time. The first motorcycle produced in 1909 had a displacement of 330cc.
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• Ferrari 126 C
  ...This is the same car [[Renè Arnoux]] drove his last fast lap in an F1 race at the [[Dutch Grand Prix]] ...raced in the [[1982 Formula One season]]. It was the team's first attempt at a [[turbo]] engined Formula 1 car. It was designed by [[Mauro Forghieri]] a
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• Fiat 24-32 HP
  ...y 27, with [[Vincenzo Lancia]] driving, the race Susa - Col du Mont-Cenis at the average speed of 44.16km/h. 24/32hp, 6,908 cc. T-head four-cylinder engine
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• Dagrada
  ! colspan=2 |'''Dagrada Lancia at Monaco''' ...essful with several drivers, notably [[Giancarlo Baghetti]] who one a race at Monza, but the advent of the rear-engined British invasion saw their declin
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• Mi-Val
  ...KW 125. The models to 2 times that in subsequent years alongside the model T, with the exception of "6 Days," is essentially an aesthetic evolution of t ...ne. In the film the car was destroyed by fire. However this vehicle may be at best, a kr175/200 hybrid with additional non production parts added for the
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• Alfa Romeo 1750
  ...s replaced the earlier [[Alfa Romeo 2600|2600]] Berlina, Sprint and Spider at the top of the Alfa Romeo range. In contrast to the 2600s, the 1750s were [[Image:1750.jpg|thumb|300px|left|'''Alfa Romeo GTV 1750 at [http://www.woiow.com Wheels Of Italy''']]]
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• Ferrari F2002
  ...dvancement in the bodywork and increasing the car's aerodynamic efficiency at the rear. ...continued its design for another two months and only first used the F2002 at the third round of the 2002 season having been using the previous year's F2
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• Economy car
  ...[[Ford Model T]] can be considered the "first" economy car. While it was at first the ''only'' [[mass production|mass produced]] car, that very innovat ...era. [[Adolf Hitler]] admired the ideals exemplified by the [[Ford Model T]], and sought the help of [[Ferdinand Porsche]] to create a vehicle with th
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• Bugatti Veyron
  ...car is built by [[Volkswagen AG]] subsidiary, [[Bugatti Automobiles SAS]] at a production facility in Molsheim, France, and is sold under the legendary ...on began with the 1999 '''EB 18/4 "Veyron"''' [[concept car]]. Introduced at the [[Tokyo Motor Show]], it was similar in design and appearance to the fi
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• Ferrari F10
  | Engine position = [[MR layout|mid-mounted at a 3.5° angle]] ...s did not improve and thus the car's first run was at the first group test at [[Circuit Ricardo Tormo]] in [[Valencia, Spain|Valencia]] on 1 February.
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• Triumph-Italia
  ..."Italian bodywork at its best, British tradition in sports car engineering at its finest.”'' At the time, Signore [[Salvatore Ruffino]] was the managing Director of CESAC,
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• Tire code
  ** 'T' - Temporary !T
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• Vyrus
  |Lubrication system || Forced by pump at gear ...an unusual bike, and especially a racer, that needed work done. "Our team at ARP was very adaptable and could work very fast in making one-off parts or
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• Thierry Boutsen
  ...sen Arrows A7 1984 Dallas F1.jpg|thumb|left|Boutsen driving for [[Arrows]] at the [[1984 United States Grand Prix]].]] ...Canada 2.jpg|thumb|left|Boutsen driving for [[Benetton Formula|Benetton]] at the [[1988 Canadian Grand Prix]].]]
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• Borile
  ...each part was different from the following one: in the workshop they didn't have any manufacturing centres connected with CAD-CAM but we have salami, g With the Borile B500T, shown at the 1997 at EICMA exhibition in Milan, took a new direction proposing the classic look
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• ORSA
  ...owed this little spider to exceed 125 km/h. As an option that was provided at the 50,000 lire price, were spoke wheels to complete the fashionably retro ...one of [[Cagliari]] where we had bought 30,000 sqm. of well urbanized land at a reasonable price. This, in addition to the benefits promised by the Fund
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• Phil Hill
  [[Image:HillPhil1962.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Phil Hill 1962 at the [[Nürburgring]]]] ...once said, "I'm in the wrong business. I don't want to beat anybody, I don't want to be the big hero. I'm a peace-loving man, basically.
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• Limited slip differential
  ...of a standard differential, where they convey certain dynamic advantages, at the expense of greater complexity. ...l torque can be transmitted as long as there is some friction available on at least one of the wheels.
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• Ferrari 150° Italia
  ...iticism for Ferrari's failure to secure the {{F1|2010}} World Championship at the [[2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix]]. It was driven by {{F1|2005}} and {{F1|20 ...11 Test Jerez 23.jpg|thumb|left|[[Felipe Massa]] during pre-season testing at [[Circuito de Jerez|Jerez]] in February 2011.]]
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• Ferrari 412T
  | Video || [[Gerhard Berger]] driving the Ferrari 412 qualifying lap at Monaco in 1994 ...d by a 3.5 litre [[V12]] engine, downsized to 3.0 for the 1995 season. The T stood for Transverse, as the gearbox was mounted in this way, improving rea
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• Fiat 8V
  ...Fiat]] V8 had a 70 degree V configuration of up to up a 1996 cc of volume, at 5600 [[rpm]] the [[engine]] produced 105 [[hp]] in standard form giving a t ...t of these cars have a well documented history and fetch exorbitant prices at classic car auctions.
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• Antique car
  [[Image:Late_model_Ford_Model_T.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Ford Model T]].]] ...e the time when the value of the car "bottoms out". A person needs to have at least 20 of these $500 cars. Parked on blocks, with the glass masked to pre
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• Fiat 1100
  ...of the grille and in station-wagon version, with a side-hinged fifth door at the back. ...were also lengthened, as were the doors, which were also reversed to hinge at the rear. The result was a car that looked totally up to date.
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• Ceccato
  ...pic of the original 75 cc factory racer which won the 75 cc class in 1955 at Motogiro d’Italia''' <small>''This is a PDF file, if you can't see it you need to activate your PDF reader; e.g.: ([http://www.adobe.com/p
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• Benelli
  12 hp at 8000 rpm<br> ...l motorcycle producers: the [[Isle of Man TT|Isle of Man Tourist Trophy]], at that time the most important race in the world.
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• Ducati Bronco
  ...color:#fff; border-bottom:1px solid #999;" |[[File:1964 Ducati 125 Bronco at the 2009 Seattle International Motorcycle Show 1.jpg|280px]] |Fuel consumption || 99 mpgus at a cruising speed of 37-40 mph
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• Straight-4
  ...s above that limit. A 4-cylinder engine needs two balance shafts, rotating at twice the crankshaft frequency, to be smooth. Nevertheless, there were seve ...considered the largest engine of its type in the 1970s. These engines ran at very low rpm, often less than 1,500 rpm maximum, and had a specific output
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• Piaggio
  [[Image:014.jpg|thumb|300px|'''Vespa Scooter at [http://www.woiow.com Wheels Of Italy]]]''' ...ame Roberto Colaninno: ''A lot of people told me I was crazy. Piaggio wasn't dying. It just needed to be treated better.'' Piaggio's financial was in a
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• Fornasari
  ...econd place at 18th Puglia Lucania Rally, the second and the fourth places at Pharaons Rally 2004. ...inary car: F. Cunico/ G. Pirollo, De Lorenzo twins, Fornasari/De Michelis, T. Manfrinato, R. Meyer, F.Picco/A.Ronconi, M. Ricci/ S. Fattori, Prisca Taru
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• Sleeve valve
  ...oved away. This "valve float" can eventually cause the valve to not close at all before the cam comes round to open it again. ...piston and the valve no good at all. Even in "non-interference" engines, at some point the valve head can simply part from the valve stem due to the in
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• Savio
  ...om the company, but Giuseppe continued alone until he passed away in 1954. At that point [[Alfredo Caracciolo]] took control, a few years later he moved ...s were also built, such as the 125 based Coupé and estate which were shown at the 1969 Turin Motorshow. Notable amongst their relatively recent products
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• Ferrari Testarossa
  ...x solid #999;" |[[Image:Ferrari.Testarossa.JPG|280px|'''Ferrari Testarossa at Wheels Of Italy''']] ...duction in [[1984]] as the successor to the [[Ferrari 512 BB]]. It shouldn't be confused with the earlier [[Ferrari TR|Testa Rossas]], GT [[sports car r
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• Gull-wing door
  ...omotive industry term describing [[automobile]] [[door]]s which are hinged at the roof. They are so named because, when opened, the doors evoke the imag Conventional car doors are typically hinged at the front-facing edge of the door and allow the door to swing outward from
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• Ducati Paso
  ...olini]], nicknamed "Paso", who died on [[20 May]], [[1973]] in an accident at the [[Autodromo Nazionale Monza|Monza]] race track during the Grand Prix of At the time of the takeover, due to its financial difficulties Ducati was in a
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