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One of the famous custom cars in the classic American custom style, the Hirohata Merc [1] A custom car is a passenger vehicle that has been altered to improve its performance, change its aesthetics, or combine both. Some automotive enthusiasts in the United States want to push "styling and performance a step beyond the showroom floor - to truly ...
The essay that many critics have considered the strongest is "The Last American Hero," a profile of Junior Johnson, an early star of the stock car racing world and NASCAR. In looking at a single day at the races, Wolfe also examines the rise of race day culture, how it is a stark contrast to the Grand Prix motor racing popular in Europe.
The terms "tuning" and "tuner car" began to rise in popularity in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s to refer to the rise of people modifying foreign cars, typically Japanese cars. This was contrasted against the previously predominant culture of car customization that grew primarily around customizing domestically produced American cars.
Motorcycle customization (3 C, 14 P) O. Official motorsports and performance division of automakers (2 C, 50 P) P. Vehicle modification people (2 C, 29 P) R.
Designers at work in 1961. Standing by the scale model's left front fender is Dick Teague, an automobile designer at American Motors Corporation (AMC).. Automotive design is the process of developing the appearance (and to some extent the ergonomics) of motor vehicles, including automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, buses, coaches, and vans.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
A popular lowered stance customization that first emerged in the 1940s was the taildragger car, described by Motor Trend as follows: The Ford's stance was reworked by Brothers Custom to bring the rear lower to the ground, capturing the era when rear tires barely peeked out from the bottoms of the skirts.
Example of a freely licensed high-quality image, from Honda S2000. This image highlights the importance – if you are after a "high quality image" – of enhancing the picture with a good background: unfussy, harmonious and not the same color as the car. Another example, with more visible editing work done.