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Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $25,000 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z?
Yesterday, 68% of voters felt that $129,900 was too much to pay for a 4-year-old lemon-law-buyback Maybach 57, which is doing pretty well according to the harsh standards set by Nice Price Or Crack Pipe. Today we'll be considering a super-low-mileage, near-showroom-condition Dodge Daytona… but we're not talking about the kind of Daytona with the big wing and U-joint-bustin' V8. No, we mean the K-car-based Daytona Turbo Z, which is pretty much the concentrated essence of 1980s style. It's got lots of plastic body parts. It's got the word "Turbo" printed in multiple locations. It's got 142 factory horsepower, and this one's got just 2,021 miles on the clock! That's averages out at fewer than 85 miles per year! The seller has blatantly disregarded eBay car-seller tradition by using correct spelling, grammar, and capitalization, but he or she makes up for it by pointing out the "Star Power" of the car. Worth 25 grand? What do you think?
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Top Ten Most Important NASCAR Crashes Of All Time
Our friends at Popular Mechanics have put together a list of what they consider the top ten most influential crashes in NASCAR history, complete with video. These ten smash-ups were influential not in how they changed the course of a single race, but in how they got us to today's "Car of Tomorrow," a race car that is to "stock car" what the Republican Party is to "conservatives." That is to say, it's become nothing at all like a real for-sale car, and therefore not-at-all interesting to most hardcore gearheads. But maybe we all just need a reminder of how the "sport" got to be where it is today. Popular Mechanics has put together this list, with video clips, of ten big wrecks that provoked change in NASCAR.
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4:15 PM on Fri Sep 19 2008
By Mark Arnold
11,810 views, 65 commentsMost discussed smalleyxb122: Dale's crash was most influential? Perhaps to the window decal industry, but not to NASCAR. He had perhaps the largest more »
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vintage racing
Iso Rivolta Daytona
Vintage Racer continues to send in his excellent photos of old race cars (the last one being the '54 Mercedes-Benz 300SL), and today we're going to check out this one-of-a-kind '65 Iso Rivolta Daytona. Powered by a Weber-ized Corvette V8, the Daytona was a one-off prototype similar to the '64 Iso Rivolta Le Mans cars; go here to get the whole story.
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2008 bullrun
Remember That Badass Bullrun Daytona? It's Been Replaced With A Fusion
The flat-black bucket of badass that is the "Project ANGRIER" '69 Dodge Daytona replica, built to dominate this years Bullrun, has managed to throw snake-eyes only two days into the rally. For all the work that went into the car, a wheel failure has forced its retirement. But that hasn't stopped the driver from continuing on in the challenge — in a Ford Fusion rental car. We can't help but imagine the disappointment of going from rip-snorting rally dominator to staid family sedan that returns 25 MPG even while bouncing off the 111 MPH rev limiter. [Cardomain] -
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Studebaker Daytona: Get That Lark To The Nearest Racetrack!
Last time we heard from Vintage Racer, he was performing duct-tape heroics to keep his Datsun 510 on the weather-challenged race track. Since then, he's been sending more of his excellent photographic work our way, and today we're going to look at one of the coolest musclecars ever built, rivaling even the mighty '69 SC/Rambler. Yes, this here is a '64 Studebaker Daytona vintage race car! Make the jump to read Vintage Racer's description, and get ready for more of his photos later in the week! More » -
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Carroll Shelby Buys A Replica, Will He Sue Himself?
Just about every time Carroll Shelby smells merely a whiff of somebody using the name "Shelby" or "Cobra" or "Automobile" withoutpaying through the nose for ithis permission, ol' Shel' slaps em' with a good old 'merican-style lawsuit. Remember the case against Wilhelm Motor Works? There was even a suit against the Shelby American Automobile Club. So between all the replica Shelby Mustangs and Cobras out there, Carroll must be too busy taking people to court to even consider buying any of their lesser re-creations, right? Well, apparently not, as Shelby has just recently acquired a Superformance Brock Coupe, a car that's essentially a fake Shelby Cobra 'Daytona' Coupe. Ok, to be fair, the Superformance Coupe was designed by the same Peter Brock that penned the original '60s special, but we still can't help but find this ironic. Maybe it happened because the guy is getting old. We say that because this Daytona was fitted with a paddle-shift automatic transmission designed by MasterShift, which means 85-year old Carroll doesn't have to use a heavy clutch pedal to swap cogs now. Press release from Shelby below the jump.
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Schumacher Wins First Motorcycle Race, Prompting Rumors Of New Career
Former F1 driver Michael Schumacher has won his first ever motorcycle race. The ex-Ferrari driver has successfully completed tests on board Ducati's MotoGP bike and raced a Honda CBR1000RR. With the addition of this win, on board a Triumph Daytona 675, the motorcycle world is rife with rumors that he will compete professionally in a major racing class next season. More » -
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Garage419 Pulls All-Nighter At Daytona
The 24 hour endurance race at Daytona is often under-appreciated these days. Once, it was a key race on the international sportscar racing scene. Now? not so much, but it's still a great place to go and hang out if you want to experience some nice machinery in the metal. The guys at Garage419 went down to Daytona to check out the 24 hour race up close and personally. If you've never had the chance to walk around the paddock or the pits at a big race, we definitely recommend doing so. Look! There's Alex Roy's M5... in the infield. No sighting of Patrick Dempsey though. -
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2008 Daytona 500: Winner Ryan Newman
After a three lap sprint to the finish after some BS caution shenanigans Ryan Newman is the winner of the 2008 Daytona 500. We certainly bagged the first 9/10ths of the race, but the final couple of minutes was less than unexciting. Congratulations to team Alltel and all the work that went into securing the victory. We look forward to not understanding the ramifications to the points system and later making more generic racing jokes at the expense of the NASCAR. It's been a pleasure to bring you this lackluster coverage, now to tend to that waitress... -
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2008 Daytona 500: Many of Final Laps Surprisingly Run Under Caution
Yeah, between laps 187 (on the mu f**n cop) and lap 192, things were tightly controlled by that Corvette Z06 Pace car. Making things incredibly exciting. Wait... hooooooooly crap look at the sparks form underneath Casey Mears' car, looks like the fourth of July in the poor kids neighborhood. Of course those sparklers lead to another series of caution laps, but oh no, there they go, final 3 laps... hang on to your butts.
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