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Endless summers. “The first memory I have of hearing about the Bradford Model T Girls was when I was growing up, seeing a picture of my mom with the other girls in the Model T, and the photo was autographed by Henry Ford,” remembers John Butte, a retired Caterpillar executive living in Dunlap, …

The tale of the Mad Canadian. On October 5, 1979, a wild-eyed bearded man climbs into a yellow rocket-powered Lincoln Continental, presses the pedal down, and drives off the end of a 1400-foot ramp at 180 mph—about 100 mph too slow—at which point the chutes come out, the wings fold up, the body …

Kurt Anderson rocketed from zero to 241 mph in about two seconds. Then, so close to the goal of 248 mph, Anderson went from “Oh, yeah!” to “Oh shit!” in a single heartbeat. “All of a sudden, the back end came around,” Anderson recalls. “I was hoping I could spin around once and pull the chute, which …

Mark Thatcher's 1982 run at the Dakar became the subject of an international incident. This story originally appeared in Volume 6 of Road & Track. The Iron Lady’s son, Mark Thatcher, had gone missing five days earlier while racing a Peugeot 504 through the Sahara in the Paris-Dakar Rally. His car was …