Posts Tagged ‘alabama’
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Aston Martin DBS.According to Autocar, the lucky few that have put a deposit down on the new Aston Martin DBS will have to wait an additional three-months to get behind the wheel of the body-kitted Bond car. The problem apparently stems from suppliers who ar......
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
It was probably the shortest parade I've ever attended, including a St. Patrick's Day celebration in Mississippi that made its wat 'round the block three times so the lone marching band could finish its song. No, this one was shorter, and didn't have a marching band to accommodate, and therefore cou......
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Saturday, May 5th, 2007
There is certainly no shortage of extraordinary stories about Ferraris being dug out of somebody's barn after decades of neglect, but few are quite as intriguing as this one. As a student at the University of Alabama in 1966, Darrell Westfaul bought a competition 1950 Ferrari for $1,500 which he dro......
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Sunday, December 24th, 2006
Honda subsidiary Yutaka Technologies began construction on a transmission component factory in Cullman, Alabama in January. The plant will employ about 200 people and is part of a larger strategy to build several component-supplier factories to feed Honda's US manufacturing plants. There's new facil......
Tags: alabama, cullman, exhaust system, ExhaustSystem, Factory, honda, new, plant, supplier, torque converter, TorqueConverter, Transmission, U.S.
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Saturday, July 29th, 2006
Alabama's deep-south image may to some seem better suited to NASCAR moonshine-runnin' than the globe-trotting, jet-setting world of Formula 1, but a new motorsport complex in the southern state is keen to change that.Alabama Motorsports Park is a $350 million project to be built in Mobile on the Gul......
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