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• Old school Bentleys on the road

  Fred Cox on July 1, 2009

  It's not often you see a museum worthy car being driven at all, much less on the road where gawking drivers can run into them, but here are a couple of 80 year old Bentleys in all their glory.

  

  I was lucky enough to come across these on Vancouver Island last week. They had just returned from an adventure up the West Coast of Canada and Alaska with other Bentleys of various vintages. According to the event's website, one of these cars had 13 tire changes, so it wasn't easy going by any means.

  These were the days before almost any safety rules or equipment existed, so no bumpers, even. Active safety was the word of the day.

  Read full article | Comments (1) | Filed under safety, speed, Classic, Bentley, lifestyle, tires, windshield, rubber, rims, maintenance, Vintage Motorsports, brakes, shock absorber, exhaust, headlights, antique, sports sedan, performance, muscle car, Cash for Clunkers

• The 2009 1/2 Iacocca Silver 45th Anniversary Edition Ford Mustang

  Banovsky on June 23, 2009

  Lee Iacocca is 85. Despite being instrumental in creating some of the most successful cars in the last decade — the Ford Mustang, Chrysler K-Cars, and the minivan — he hasn't yet dipped his hand in the ever trashy classy market of customized Mustangs.

  

  The Iacocca-customized Mustang

  The 45th (we'll call it the 45th, OK?) is a Mustang GT with Ford Racing parts, bodywork redesigned by Gaffoglio Family Metalcrafters, and "Iacocca" badging all over it.

  I'd take it more seriously, if the press release didn't say things like, "The Silver Edition Mustang perpetuates the Iacocca mystique." With lines like that, it sounds like Iacocca is Zorro or something.

  Pricing hasn't been announced.

  Click through for more pics.

  Read full article | Comments (2) | Filed under Future, News, Mustang, Ford, Coupe, Ford, custom, 2009, performance, muscle car, Iacocca, custom