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Almost unnoticed, a really good guy and good racer passed away last week. Shirl Greer was a Georgia native, a true Southern drag stud, who improbably became the NHRA’s Funny Car national champion in 1974 under some wild circumstances. Greer had been in ill health, and passed away at a hospital in Johnson City, Tennessee. […]
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Tagged drag racing, funny cars, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Jim Donnelly, personalities, racing, Shirl Greer
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Most requests we get to identify old cars in old photographs through Lost and Found come from regular readers who happen to come across those photographs in family albums, though we’ve cheerfully helped out historical societies and museums when they get stumped. This request, however, is a little different: It comes to us from Marianne […]
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While many Kaiser aficionados know that Kaiser dabbled in jeeps during World War II, before making a splash in the automotive field, perhaps fewer know that Kaiser at one point attempted to produce articulated inter-city buses.
Built in 1946 at Kaiser’s Permanente Metals Corporation plant near Los Altos, California, the three-axle, 60-foot bus featured true monocoque […]
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Tagged buses, Daniel Strohl, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, featured posts, Kaiser, Lost and Found, Santa Fe Trailways
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