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Headquartered in Norton, MA, Autopart International Inc., is a leading provider of premium auto parts for the Professional Service Provider. Since our inception in 1957 as Foreign Autopart, an import part specialist, our commitment to be the Best Local Parts Partner to the Professional Service Provider remains a pillar of our Company Culture. Autopart International…
America s first auto race was held in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1895. The race was the idea of H. H. Kohlsaat, the publisher of the Chicago Times-Herald. Hoping to promote this new industry and sell more papers, Kohlsaat announced on July 9 “A Prize for Motors, ” with a $5, purse for “inventors who can construct practicable, self propelling road…
Nissan makes big safety tech standard on most 2018 models Nissan announced Thursday that it will make automatic emergency braking standard on the bulk of its 2018 passenger cars, crossovers, and SUVs in the United States. The move puts Nissan in line with only Toyota among major, full-line automakers that have made the collision-avoiding tech standard onRead…
Mattel s Auto Race (1977, LED, 9 Volt, Model# 9879) Designed by (at least in part): George Klose Programmed by: Mark Lesser (a whopping 511 bytes of code!)View Manual Mattel Auto Race was released in 1976, and was the first Mattel Electronics handheld game made available to the public (and is also the first ever all-electronic handheld, using no moving parts…
We work with Customer Lobby to collect customer reviews and they then publish them on-line. When your repair is completed we send you an email thank you note with a link to Customer Lobby s survey page for AutoSport Collision. We always appreciate the valuable input we receive from our customers. We strive to achieve complete customer satisfaction and we have…
Looking for a Apopka auto parts store? Choose Advance Auto Parts on 1400 N Rock Springs Road to find what you need at an affordable price. To do your own vehicle repairs, you need quality auto parts, ranging from truck or car batteries for reliable starting power to truck or car brakes for safe driving. In the 1400 N Rock Springs Road store, you ll find shocks…
The first stationary gasoline engine developed by Carl Benz was a one-cylinder two-stroke unit which ran for the first time on New Year’s Eve 1879. Benz had so much commercial success with this engine that he was able to devote more time to his dream of creating a lightweight car powered by a gasoline engine, in which the chassis and engine formed a single unit…
ORG Home Puts Andretti Autosport on the Fast Track Even before the greatest spectacle in racing takes place in Indianapolis, the Andretti Autosport team is off to a winning start behind the scenes, thanks to its new ORG Home garage products. With garage cabinets and workbenches installed in five workstations, the Andretti garages in Gasoline Alley are now sporting…
NBC Sports Group is gearing up to launch “Shotgun” an eight-episode series it bills as a “high-octane automotive quiz show” that tests contestants ability to answer questions while riding in the passenger seat of a professional race car around four different courses at Irwindale Speedway in Irwindale, Calif. During the series, Rutledge Wood, host of “Nascar on…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The engineer who helped revolutionize safety in auto racing plans to begin player testing of a new football helmet that he predicts will significantly reduce concussions. Dr. Dean Sicking, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Engineering, said the helmet is designed to reduce concussions by 75 percent, and he hopes…
Facebook Tweet Pinterest Honda Performance Development will investigate the cause of four seemingly different problems with each of the Andretti Autosport IndyCar teams on Sunday during the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. The Michael Andretti-led squad endured a disastrous day in Southern California, with four DNFs that left each car outside of the top 15. The…
America s First Automobile Race, 1895 enry Ford receives most of the credit for the development of the car in the US (see Henry Ford Changes the World, 1908), however, he did not produce the first American automobile. This distinction goes to the Duryea brothers - Charles and Frank - who created their first gasoline-powered horseless-carriage in 1893. Like…
Leonard W. Miller, the founder of Black American Racers Inc. (BAR), says he feels like the other half of Hidden Figures, the Oscar-nominated film about the unsung African-American heroes of the space race. He was speaking during a recent donation ceremony, honoring the arrival of artifacts from the group to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History…
In the hours since Feral Interactive released the Linux version of GRID Autosport today, I ve been trying out this racing game on a variety of AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards atop Ubuntu Linux. Here are my initial results for GRID Autosport under Linux with seven different graphics cards. In this article I m just comparing the performance of the…
It’s quickly becoming a “can’t miss” event for fans and drivers who love nostalgia. The Southern Vintage Race Car Nationals took place March 17-19 at Dillon Motor Speedway and welcomed some truly beautiful-looking throwback machines. Among the Vintage racing groups represented were the Southern Ground Pounders, Carolina Vintage, Bell and Bell, Palmetto Vintage…
Jimmie Johnson, center, celebrates in Victory Lane after he won the NASCAR Monster Energy race, Sunday, June 4, 2017, at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Del. (Nick Wass / Associated Press) Associated Press Hooked on NASCAR as a kid, there was something about Cale Yarborough that made a fan out of Jimmie Johnson. Johnson was glued to the set as he sat on…
As we get ready to go back racing again, fever is starting to build around the imminent release of Ron Howard’s movie Rush. With a few weeks to go until the world gets to see what I and some of my colleagues have already been fortunate enough to have viewed, I thought I’d run down a list (a personal list) of what I reckon are the top 10 racing movies of all time…
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It is never enough for a sports car to be fast, it must also look and feel like it was born to race. If you are serious about turning your car into a track day king, then you need to swap its stock seats for racing seats. Besides its premium looks and the ability to make you feel like a professional racecar driver, a racing seat provides the right ergonomic support…
Autocross events are an all-forward motion-driving-skill contest. Each driver is individually timed to the thousandth of a second, over a short, miniature road-course clearly defined using traffic cones. Cars compete one at a time, in a class with similar cars. An event can be held on any flat paved surface, usually a parking lot, or airport apron or runway…
This question does not have a straightforward answer. The history of the automobile is very rich and dates back to the 15th century when Leonardo da Vinci was creating designs and models for transport vehicles. There are many different types of automobiles - steam, electric, and gasoline - as well as countless styles. Exactly who invented the automobile is a…
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Facebook Tweet Pinterest The days of Group B rallies are long behind us, and it often feels that the only evidence that such racing even existed is grainy video and film footage of rally cars tearing up the European countryside, sliding through a soup of gravel and mud. This year is the 30th anniversary of the demise of Group B racing following a string of fatal…
There are three important measurements to be considered before buying racing wheels. These measurements are to identify the wheel bolt circle (or bolt pattern), the wheel width and the wheel offset (or rear spacing). Follow these steps to ensure that you purchase the correct wheels for your application. Measuring Wheel Bolt Circles: For 4-Lug Wheels measure center…
By Jonathan Noble Williams and Haas became the latest teams to add T-wings to their cars on Monday as pre-season Formula 1 testing began at Barcelona. An opening in the all-new aero regulations for 2017 has encouraged teams to add a high T-wing or a shark fin on top of their engine covers. While Mercedes has elected to run the T-wing as a standalone attachment…
The National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing, or better known as NASCAR, was founded in 1947 as a summit of automotive leaders. Through the dedication of Bill France Senior, the family owned and operated company NASCAR, debuted Daytona Speedway in 1959 and annually holds the Daytona 500 in February. Across 120 countries in 20 languages, NASCAR provides auto…
