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Make My Drive Fun, Plots Interesting Sites to See While on a Road Trip

Make My Drive Fun, Plots Interesting Sites to See While on a Road Trip

Make My Drive Fun is a wonderful interactive map that plots out interesting sights, landmarks, and oddities to see while driving from one place to another. You just have to enter in two locations from anywhere in the world to see what you can see while planning a road trip. If you missed the hyperlink up at the top, here is the link to the page again: https://makemydrivefun.com  

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SOLD: Restored 1959 Jaguar Mk I 3.4 Saloon

SOLD:  Restored 1959 Jaguar Mk I 3.4 Saloon

Jaguar’s Mk. I Saloon (sedan, on this side of the pond), produced from 1955 to 1959, embodied the marque’s ethos of “Grace, Pace and Space.” Produced in both 2.4 and 3.4-liter variants, the cars were only referred to by the Mk I name retroactively, following the introduction of the Mk II in 1959. These innovative cars came onto the market in the middle of Jaguar’s five victories in seven years at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (1951,1953,1955, 1956, 1957) and combined a race-proven DOHC six-cylinder engine and suspension elements with modern streamlined styling that reflected Jaguar sports cars and...

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This Ultra-Rare 1957 Ferrari Race Car Could Fetch up to $10 Million

This Ultra-Rare 1957 Ferrari Race Car Could Fetch up to $10 Million

The fully restored open-top racer even has a numbers-matching inline-four engine. A rare example of one of Ferrari’s most beautiful race cars will cross the auction block next month.     RM Sotheby’s will sell a one-of-19 500 TRC Spider as part of its upcoming Monterey Car Week sale. Of course, landing the vehicle will be no easy feat as bidding could reach as high as eight figures. The 500 TRC Spider is a more refined and driver-friendly version of the 500 TR, the first Ferrari to bear the Testa Rossa name. In production from 1956 to 1957—only 19 units...

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Special XKE for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

Special XKE for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee wasn’t just an opportunity for the British people to celebrate their 96-year-old monarch, it also gave Jaguar the chance to showcase its latest official restomod. The marque’s restoration division, Jaguar Classic, debuted a beautiful 1965 Series 1 E-type roadster just in time for the event’s 15-car pageant on Sunday. The one-of-a-kind rebuild isn’t just meant to be a reminder of the brand’s glory days; it’s also proof that it can take the cars from that era and get them into near-new condition. The restomod was commissioned by an anonymous Jag lover who was looking for a...

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May 13, 1975 – Inventor of drive-in dies

May 13, 1975 – Inventor of drive-in dies

In the early 1930s, one Richard Hollingshead supposedly came to know a familiar complaint from his plump mother, “Movie theater seats are too small for my frame,” she’d exclaim, probably. To provide his mother with a more enjoyable movie going experience, something that was still relatively new at the time, and to save her from the embarrassment surely associated with breaking chairs, Richard built an at home theater just for her. Ever the good son, Richard nailed bed sheets between two trees on their family property in Camden, New Jersey. He then aimed a Kodak movie projector at it. He...

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