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• Famous Cars
  ===Racing=== * Swamp Rat, name of a series of [[drag racing|dragsters]] built and raced by [[Don Garlits]].
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• 1970 Can-Am season
  | Series = Can-Am ...he [[Can-Am]] [[auto racing]] series. It consisted of [[FIA]] [[Group 7]] racing cars running two-hour sprint events. It began June 14, 1970 and ended Nove
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• Sports Car Club of America
  ...f America''' ('''SCCA''') is a club and sanctioning body supporting [[road racing]], [[rallying|rally]], and autocross in the United States and was formed in ==Types of racing==
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• Ginetta Cars
  ...ne at the rear. On test the car reached 120 mph with a 1500 cc engine. The series III version of 1966 added the then popular pop up headlights. ...ord V8 and MGB engines respectively. The G12 was a mid-engined competition car.
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• Prodrive
  ...Warwick provides road car design and engineering consultation for various car manufacturers. ...to [[touring car]]s, running BMW's [[BMW M3|M3]], in the [[British Touring Car Championship]]. They were the outright 1988 champions, and class champions
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• Circuit Paul Ricard
  | Record_team = [[Williams F1|Williams]] [[Honda Racing F1|Honda]] With innovative facilities it was considered by some to be the safest motor racing in the world at the time. The circuit had three possible layouts, a large a
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• Mercedes
  ...and, because of the success of the model, DMG began to apply the name as a series to other models such as, ''Mercedes 8/11 hp'' and ''Mercedes 40 hp Simplex' ==History of the beginning of the Mercedes series==
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• V10 engine
  ...V10 engine, originally designing a version of its [[Chrysler LA engine|LA series small block]] for use in trucks. However, the engine saw its first product .../Econoline]] full-size [[van]], and also saw duty in the [[Ford F-Series|F-Series Super Duty]] line and the [[Ford Excursion]] SUV, and is still in productio
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• Arturo Merzario
  ...ldi (constructor)|Fittipaldi]], [[March Engineering|March]], [[Walter Wolf Racing|Wolf]], [[Merzario]] | ...blunder on name registration - sometimes used on his helmet) is a former [[racing driver]] from Italy. He participated in 85 [[Formula One]] World Championsh
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• Marcos
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Marcos''' is a British [[sports car]] manufacturer. ...wealthy Canadian buying the company, is now producing cars again. The race car production is now located in The Netherlands while the road cars are now ma
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• Bentley Speed 8
  ...years). The Speed 8 marked [[Bentley Motors Limited|Bentley's]] return to racing after a 73-year absence. ...0 [[Horsepower| hp]], mated to a 6-speed [[manual transmission]]. The car weighed 900 kg (1984 lb) in with the minimum weight mandated for the L
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• Osella
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Osella''' is an Italian racing car manufacturer and former [[Formula One]] team based in Volpiano near Turin, ...would rise to [[Formula Two]] in 1975 achieving some success with its own car (the Osella FA2); [[François Migault]] scored one point.
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• Morgan Aero 8
  The '''Morgan Aero 8''' is a [[Sports car|Sports]] [[automobile|car]] designed and currently built by the [[Morgan Motor Company]] in their fac ...ies from both works cars and privateers. It is also used in the British GT Series.
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• Bentley Blower
  ...ompany, producing the famed '''"Blower"''' [[supercharged]] version of the car. ...nbsp;kW) in road-going models or 130 hp (97 kW) when tweaked for racing. However, the supercharged engine had a ridiculously huge thirst: the non-s
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• Oversteer
  ...instead slide out toward the outside of the turn. Oversteer can throw the car into a spin. Porsches (because of the rear engine design) are known for acc The tendency of a car to oversteer is affected by several factors such as mechanical traction, ae
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• Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR
  ...ionship sportscar racing world championship series, known as BPR Global GT Series up to 1996. To be allowed to do so, 25 cars had to be built for the GT1 cla == Racing car==
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• Cadillac Northstar LMP
  ...y [[General Motors]]' [[Cadillac]] brand for use in the [[American Le Mans Series]] as well as an attempt to return Cadillac to the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] s ...to not only survive Le Mans, but also to beat the dominant [[Audi R8 (race car)|Audi R8]]s. GM would therefore turn to [[Riley Technologies|Riley & Scott
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• Trojan
  ...rear wheels. Solid tyres were used, even though these were antiquated for car use, to prevent punctures and very long springs used to give some comfort. ...ny had become in 1914, made production tools and gauges. In 1920 the first series of six cars were made from a works in Croydon and the final production vers
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• Autocross
  ...wn right, autocrossing is a good way to learn skills that transfer to road racing, as drivers learn vehicle control and club ethics. ...clubs. Automobile manufacturers and their associated clubs (e.g. the [[BMW Car Club of America]]) sometimes hold marque autocross events.
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• Mugen
  ...[[sports cars]] and single-seaters and worked for Honda R&D and then Honda Racing Service before he helped H. Honda establish Mugen. ...any and in recent years has been largely involved with running Mugen's NSX racing program.
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