Ford
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PRI 2024 How Would You Like a New Ford GT40 MkIV?
Jim For those of us that have seen the movie Ford vs. Ferarri or, perhaps, lived through those days, the Ford GT40 of those days holds some magnetism and may even be your dream to own one day. I felt… Continue reading
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First Stop in Alabama–Wellborn Musclecar Museum
I left Georgia and Old Car City with a lot of thoughts buzzing about my brain, in a couple of hours I would enter a museum that had classic muscle cars, not in a rusty patina, but most likely, in… Continue reading
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Autoweek Fantasy Camp–My view
First let me make this clear that these opinions are mine. I am speaking for Jim’s Garage, not Autoweek. In a future issue Autoweek will compile all the Campers’ input and produce a consensus for you to critique. My first… Continue reading
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Autoweek Fantasy Camp–2012 on the track
From my entry on what we did Friday you can see that Autoweek and ZF don’t let grass grow under our racing shoes. Speaking of shoes, a box of new Alpine Stars racing shoes were handed to us upon check-in… Continue reading
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Autoweek Fantasy Camp–from the beginning
We will climb into Mr. Peabody’s WABAC machine and return to Friday, May 18, the day before all of our track time. Friday is actually quite a full day. We campers came down for a wonderful Dearborn Inn breakfast and… Continue reading
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Autoweek Fantasy Camp 2012–A long day with too much fun
The smell of exhausted brakes permeates the air here at Ford’s Dearborn Development Center. Nineteen very happy campers have spent a day living the dream of car testing and evaluation. In the morning we drove ten different sedans on a… Continue reading
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Autoweek Fantasy Camp–Getting there…
I left NC yesterday and traveled through that state as well as Virginia and West Virginia until I reached a place in the highway that had traffic stopped. I was able to converse with a guy in a work van… Continue reading
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Ferrari vs. Ford – AGAIN
Back in the sixties Ford spent millions to challenge Ferrari on the race track after a perceived snub of Henry Ford II by Enzo Ferrari. The result was a complete podium win at LeMans by Ford in 1966. Now it… Continue reading
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