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Paul Newman’s Daytona-Winning Mustang Cobra Was Never Really a Mustang Underneath
Paul Newman had just picked up a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Nobody’s Fool when, at 70 years old, he…
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Ferrari’s Only Factory Matte-Black Enzo Is for Sale, and Nobody Will Put a Number on It
Somewhere in a climate-controlled facility in Ontario sits a Ferrari that shouldn’t technically exist on paper. Ferrari built exactly 399…
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The Ferrari Raquel Welch Kept After a Movie Nobody Remembers
“Fathom” cost 20th Century Fox $2.2 million to make in 1966 and clawed back barely $1 million in North American…
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Ducati Didn’t Announce the 2027 Diavel V4 S — California’s Emissions Paperwork Did
Ducati has a very deliberate way of introducing new motorcycles. It’s called the World Première, a rolling calendar of teaser…
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Kyle Busch’s Nickname Goes Before Clark County Tuesday, and a 1988 Rule Says Only One ‘Rowdy’ Gets to Exist
Las Vegas Motor Speedway has asked Clark County for a pair of street signs, and the request is far more…
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Triumph’s TF450 Recall Goes Federal: 1,560 US Bikes, a Broken Bone, and a Full Cylinder Head Swap
The recall Backfire flagged out of Canada back in August just went nationwide. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission published…
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Tangent Design Group Turned a 911 Into a Safari Rig, and Its Lift Kit Trick Is the Real Story
Tangent Design Group spends most of its billable hours designing things that have nothing to do with cars — injection-molded…
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Have This With Your Coffee: Your Backfire News Round-Up for September 11
Rise and shine — yesterday was a busy one on Backfire News, so here’s every story from the day before…
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Ford Let You Order a 425-HP 427 in Its Cheapest Car for 1963 — Only Three Are Known to Survive
Ford’s product planners built the 300 for 1963 with one goal: get people into a full-size Ford for as little…
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Toyota’s New GR KART Fixes the Boring Problems That Actually Keep Kids
Every kid who’s ever begged for a go-kart runs into the same wall eventually. Karts themselves are relatively cheap, but…
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Last A90 Toyota Supra, VIN 99999, Hits Barrett-Jackson for Charity
Toyota didn’t sell the final fifth-generation Supra to a dealer, park it in a corporate museum, or hand the keys…
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Stanley Meyer Claimed His Car Ran on Water Alone. An Ohio Court Called It Fraud, Then He Died at a Cracker Barrel
Stanley Meyer sat down for lunch at a Cracker Barrel in Grove City, Ohio, on March 20, 1998, with his…