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Muscle Car Kicks on Route 66
Automotive Traveler’s Rich Truesdell assembles four muscle cars from the era’s golden age—representing AMC, Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors. Then, with eight strangers, he sets out on the drive of a lifetime on the Mother Road.
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Grape Escape
A tour of Bordeaux is every wine lover’s dream. Jill Starley-Grainger has discovered a unique way to tour the French countryside: in a Sat-Nav-equipped vintage E-Type Jaguar.
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It's a Crazy Thing
Ferrari and Shell invited Richard Truesdell along for the Lima, Peru to Quito, Ecuador leg of their car-busting Panamerican 20,000. Together with Ferrari’s Gabriella Norris-LaPresse, they returned with photographic evidence of a truly once-in-a-lifetime four-month-long adventure where a pair of 599 Fioranos truly conquered the Western Hemisphere.
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In Search of Steve McGarrett
The last original episode of Hawaii Five-O was broadcast more than 25 years ago, and Jack Lord has long left the scene. But our Scott Mead knows for sure that if McGarrett still heades up Five-O, he would be chasing the bad guys today in a black Mercury Grand Marquis.
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Checkpoint Charlie
It was about the time when the Berlin Wall went up when East Germany began producing Trabant cars, the automotive joke of the Cold War. We sent our intrepid road warrior Cindy-Lou Dale to the city to road test a surviving Trabi cabrio and to snap photos of the points of interest in Germany’s most-intriguing city.
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Chasing Che's Chevy
Cruising through Cuba in search of vintage American autos is like taking an automotive trip through the twilight zone. Christopher P. Baker spent a month touring the island—and its collection of decades-old Chevys, chrome-laden Chryslers, big-boned Cadillacs, Edsels, Hudsons, and Studebakers.
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Southern Comfort
Travel author Sheila Scarborough spent 10 days in May cruising through North Carolina. By the time it was over, her silver 2008 Dodge Avenger racked up almost a thousand miles marinating in the Carolina culture.
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An African Road Trip to Malawi
Malawi is home to around 10 million people who live under the yoke of widespread poverty. Yet, as discovered by Cindy-Lou Dale, they are sunny and friendly, a nation that lives in peace and harmony, drastically contrasting with the rest of the continent.
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Dakar: Destination, Journey, or Just a Race?
Do you enjoy driving? Author/photographer John Rettie asks, how’d you like to drive over 4000 miles in 14 days? How would you like to drive to Dakar?
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Tulsa Bound
Brett Stierli, with three best buddies in tow, treks from Southern California to Tulsa to be on hand for the reveal of a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere buried a half-century ago.
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Abruzzo: Italy Undiscovered
The mountains and coast of Italy’s sun-drenched Adriatic gem make the perfect backdrop for Rich Truesdell’s test drive of the Alfa Romeo MiTo—which is possibly destined for the United States in 2013.
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Colors, Flavors, and Back Roads of Abruzzo
In the second installment of their Italian adventure, Richard Truesdell and Susan Convery take to the back roads in search of the perfect culinary experience.