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In 1976, Gary Turner began producing frames for Pedals Ready, a Pro Shop at the Western Sports-A-Rama BMX track in Orange County, California, named and marketed as Pedals Ready/GT. These were the first commercially distributed frames by Turner, and one of the first sponsored riders to use them was Greg A. Hill , whose father owned the Pedals ...
Orange County International Raceway was a combined 1 ⁄ 4-mile US dragstrip and 2-mile road course, plus a motocross track, located in Irvine, California adjacent to the Interstate 5 Santa Ana Freeway.
Nicholson was born at Halltown, Missouri but was raised at Pasadena, California. [1] While in high school, he joined the United States Navy which wiped out his many speeding tickets, [1] earned at the wheel of a twin-97-equipped 235 cu in (3,850 cc) Stovebolt-powered 1934 Chevy coupé (run without front fenders), which he (illegally) street raced; almost everyone else raced Fords.
Although rated at 335 kW (449 hp), actual engine outputs were closer to 420 kW (563 hp), with many production models running up 330 kW (443 hp) at the rear wheels when dyno-tested. For many enthusiasts, this GT "R-Spec" is seen as the spiritual successor of the original "GT-HO" models that ended with the 1971 Ford XY Falcon GT. Ford (and FPV ...
The Great Park is a public park in Irvine, California, with a focus on sports, agriculture, and the arts. It is a non-aviation reuse of the decommissioned Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) El Toro. The Orange County park comprises 28.8% of the total area that once made up the air base. The project was approved by the voters of Orange County in ...
Dyno Nobel ASA combined with the Ensign-Bickford Company in 2003 and were restructured again in 2005. [10] [11] By 2007 they had over 3,500 employees and 36 manufacturing facilities. [12] In 2008 Australian agrochemical maker Incitec Pivot Limited (an ASX Top 50 company) bought Dyno Nobel for A$3.3 billion.
Mitsubishi marketed a retractable hardtop variant, which were engineered and converted from coupé models in California by ASC, [5] and sold as the GT Spyder or VR4 Spyder for model years 1993–1995. [6] These were the first fully automated retractable hardtop marketed since the 1959 Ford Skyliner. [7]
Dyno may refer to: Dyno (company), an emergency drainage and plumbing company; Dyno (climbing), a technique used in climbing; Dyno – short name for Dynamometer ...