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Buick "Darth Vader" "Bad to the Bone"

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  The Grand National had humble roots beginning in auto-racing. In 1978, because the energy extremity demanded additional svelte platforms, the elephantine 17-and-a-half-foot-long Buick imperial lost a bottom of length and a brace of cylinders. With this everyday base erected on the G- body platform associate degreed an mechanics plan in 1981, the Buick came a significant contestant in NASCAR , with Richard Petty winning the first race of the season — the‘81 Daytona five hundred — in his imperial. The imperial steamrolled the competition. 1981 - 1982 saw Darrell Waltrip skilled worker a imperial to win the Winston Cup steeplechase Championship succeeding.However, the machine swept  the manufacturer’s crown, with a imperial within the winner’s circle in a very gorgeous forty seven out of sixty two races, If that was n’t enough. In 1982, Buick moved  to subsidize on this success and introduced the steeplechase , named for the Winston Cup Championship it had simply won. the first Buick
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1963 Studebaker Avanti

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The Studebaker Avanti was a private luxury machine designed by the Studebaker Corporation between June 1962 and Gregorian calendar month 1963. Studebaker itself spoken the Avanti as "America's solely four rider superior Personal Car!" in its sales literature. The Avanti was developed at the direction of the automaker's president, Sherwood king . Design "The car's style theme is that the results of sketches Sherwood king "doodled" on a jet-plane flight west from Chicago thirty seven days when changing into president of Studebaker in February 1961." Designed by Raymond Loewy 's team of Tom food manufacturer, Bob Andrews and John Ebstein on a 40-day program, the Avanti featured a radical covering material body style mounted on a changed Studebaker Lark Daytona 109-inch convertible chassis with a changed 289 Hawk engine. it had been one amongst the primary Bottom breather styles wherever rather than a traditional grille, air for
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