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Wrecks to Riches is an American reality television series that aired on Discovery Channel from March 28, 2006, to June 14, 2007, over two seasons. The show focuses on Barry White and his staff buying old cars for little money and turning them into Super Muscle cars.
Since the decline of the muscle car in the 1970s, the word supercar has been more broadly internationalized, coming to mean an "exotic" car that has high performance; [14]: 5 interpretations of the term are span from limited-production models produced by small manufacturers for performance enthusiasts to (less frequently) standard production ...
This list of fastback automobiles includes examples of a car body style whose roofline slopes continuously down at the back. [1] It is a form of back for an automobile body consisting of a single convex curve from the top to the rear bumper. [2] This automotive design element "relates to an interest in streamlining and aerodynamics". [3]
Dream Car Garage was a weekly television show produced by Westward Wind Productions for 11 seasons between 2002 and 2012. The series was produced in Halton Hills, Ontario . Its host was Peter Klutt , a car enthusiast and the owner of Legendary Motorcar Ltd., where many of the vehicles featured in the show came from.
After the 1970 season, NASCAR effectively banned the "aero cars", by restricting all four of the limited aero "production" cars to having to compete with engines no larger than 305 cubic inches of displacement (vs. the 426, 427, & 429 inches that the other cars could run), and the competitive history of the Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II (and its ...
Dale works at a foundation that secures funding and donated cars for Wyoming Tech. One of the project cars, a 1956 Chevy Bel Air, is "stolen". While Dale's led to believe that the car's been spotted crossing state lines on its way to a chop shop, over 30 WyoTech students with the Overhaulin' team rebuild the car to be the school's new mascot.
The first Detroit Autorama was held at the University of Detroit Memorial Building on January 31 and February 1, 1953. [7] It featured only 40 cars, and was hosted by members of the Michigan Hot Rod Association (MHRA), which was created only a year before to "organize small local clubs into one unified body that could raise the money needed to pull drag racing off the streets and into a safe ...
Jay Ohrberg is a car collector and car builder specializing in cars for film and television. His company Jay Ohrberg Star Cars has an extensive collection of original cars and replicas, many of them are offered for hire. Among the vehicles Ohrberg has made are: General Lee; [1] Ford Gran Torino from Starsky & Hutch; [1] KITT for the Knight ...