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Mikkola in Portugal
Another one from the Ford media archives, depicting Hannu Mikkola and Arne Hertz in a Ford Escort RS1800 in the 1979 Rallye de Portugal Vinho do Porto. Mikkola went on to win this particular rally and...
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Monte Carlo class-winning Ford Falcon to cross the block at Monaco auction
Photos courtesy Bonhams and Ford “Stodgy” was Ford’s own term for the image that the compact Ford Falcon carried by 1963. Perhaps it never entirely shook that image (at least not in the U.S.), but...
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Four-Links – Le Mans BMW M1 rescued, Shell 4000 Rally, Joan Cuneo, Packard plant
* Not exactly a barn find, but close enough: A German man who had always wanted a BMW M1 stumbled across one for sale and in his price range in a storage facility, eventually finding out that it was...
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Great Race recap, day 1: Returning champs score perfect day
Driver Taylor Merrill and navigator James Van Schoor in their 1929 Ford Model A departing for Friday afternoon’s Hagerty Trophy Run. Photos by the author. On Friday, June 20, a stout field of 93...
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“The roads aren’t exactly European, to put it mildly”
While fixing a link to a video in an old post, we came across a trove of British Pathe videos highlighting the East African Safari Rally throughout the 1960s. While they probably don’t tell us more...
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Four-Links – scale scenes, concept cars to revive, M/T hemi Ford, Papineau...
* We’ve found the Michael Paul Smith of the off-road world, and now the Michael-Paul Smith of the European rallying scene. Instagram user takupon0816 creates incredibly detailed dioramas featuring...
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Four-Links – Roman holiday, Borgward’s Traumwagen, vintage racing games,...
* If Ronan Glon’s reflections on his recent visit to Rome – and on the Roman old car population – are to believed, we’re glad that a) we had a chance to see the autofauna there before it started...
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