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Special Features
Rachel Veitch is a 90-year-old woman who knows her way around cars, back roads and hand guns. All of which come in handy when she's driving her 1964 Mercury Comet. Veitch, who lives in Orlando, Fla., has driven her Comet nearly 600,000 miles on its original engine. 
If you like all things automotive and all things Monterey Peninsula, there' no better mix than Monterey Auto Week. Despite its name, it's actually a 10-day span of vintage cars shows, auctions, specialty racing and automotive memorabilia. But since its debut in 20007,Concours on the Avenue in Carmel was the best thing about Monterey Auto Week.
The Cadillac Escalade Hybrid is most at home
in the hills of Hollywood, Calif., or cruising next to South Beach
in Miami, Fla. It's a big, luxurious sport utility vehicle, with 22-inch wheels, leather everything, and a gas and electric
engine. So how will this biggest and most luxurious
of American SUVs do when it is pushed beyond what it was originally
designed to do? To find out, Roman Mica, a car reviewer in Denver, Colo., raced it against a
monster truck — sort of.
Paul Newman, who died Friday at age 83, was an avid auto racing enthusiast. He first became interested in motorsports ("the first thing that I ever found I had any grace in") while training for and filming Winning, a 1969 film. Newman's first professional event was in 1972, in Thompson, Conn., and he was a common competitor in Sports Car Club of America events for the rest of the decade, eventually winning several championships.
Nearly 15 years after his retirement from full-time racing, Mario Andretti, age 68, remains a dominant force. One of only two drivers to win race in the four major motor racing categories — Formula One, IndyCar (USAC), World Sportscar Championships and NASCAR — Andretti was the honored guest last week at the 35th Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races at Mazda Raceway, Laguna Seca.
It’s often just called Monterey Auto Week. No one organization oversees all of the
activities. But Douglas Friedman of the Carmel-By-The-Sea Concours On The Avenue has
compiled a good timeline for the 2008 festival in Carmel, Monterey and Pacific Grove and a the laundry list of events that comprise the pending automotive sensory overload.
Danica Patrick,
born March 25, 1982 in Beloit, Wisconsin, is in her fourth season and
is the only woman who has won on the IndyCar Series.
Ratan Naval Tata is Chairman of the Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate recently in the global automotive and global business spotlight for its debut of the world’s least expensive car and its purchase of Lexus and Land Rover from Ford Motor Company.
Approaching three decades since his death, Steve McQueen remains the "King of Cool," most notably when it involves cars, motorcycles and high speeds.
Within
a few months, likely sometime in January 2008, economically minded
buyers will be able to purchase various versions of a vehicle that's
been available in Europe for eight years — the smart.
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