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Four-Links – Rip van Winkle Studebaker, NHTSA holding on to airbag Impala, Ford’s factories, Northwest microcar show

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* Todd Lappin, writing at Bernalwood, posted some pics this week of a 1939 Studebaker rolling out of the garage it’s inhabited for the last 45 years. * According to WSBTV.com, the NHTSA (“using YOUR tax dollars!”) owns and maintains the last of the 1973 Chevrolet Impalas fitted with airbags, ostensibly the first American passenger […]

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Tagged airbags, barn finds, Can-Am, Chevrolet Impala, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, factories, ford, Ford Mustang, Great Pacific Northwest Mini and Microcar Meet, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Mercury Cougar, microcars and minicars, NHTSA, racing, River Rouge, shows, exhibitions and events, studebaker, Subaru, Subaru Sambar, Watkins Glen  
 

Four-Links – the Allard that ended American road racing, Bomonster, COPO Citations, trikes

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* The announcement of the Springfield Vintage Grand Prix earlier this week neatly coincided with a post on The Chicane on the Fred Wacker Allard J2 that competed in the 1952 Watkins Glen road races and contributed to the end of organized road racing in the United States. * If you aren’t checking out the […]

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Tagged 1980s, Allard, Allard J2, automobilia, Bomonster, Chevrolet, Chevrolet Citation, Cinderella Cart, COPO, dealerships, Fred Wacker, Gary Littlejohn, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, hot rods and customs, racing, road racing, scratchboard art, St. Petersburg Florida, studebaker, Studebaker buildings, three-wheelers, trans-Atlantic hybrids, trikes, Watkins Glen, Watkins Glen New York  
 
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