J.A. Ackley
Senior Editor at Classic Motorsports Magazine
Senior Editor at Grassroots Motorsports
Executive Editor at Outside Groove
Award-Winning Motorsports Journalist @grm_mag | @cms_mag | @outsidegroove
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5 days ago |
classicmotorsports.com | J.A. Ackley |Colin Wood
Five World Series rings. Two Silver Sluggers. One Hall of Fame plaque. And this 1970 Chevrolet Corvette. These are all items that were, at least at one point, owned by baseball legend Reggie Jackson, aka “Mr. October.”Jackson is an avid collector of American muscle cars, and this Corvette caught his attention. It’s presented in its factory colors of Marlboro Red over black vinyl trim. In 2012, the Corvette won the National Corvette Restorers Society Top Flight Award at a St. Louis chapter show.
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1 week ago |
classicmotorsports.com | J.A. Ackley
This Delahaye 135MS is truly unique. It’s the only one bodied by Walter Köng, a coachbuilder and designer who had also worked with Chrysler and Packard. The current owner bought it in 2003 from Musee De l’Automobile Muriaux in Switzerland. They displayed it at the internationally renown Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in 2006. At the 2024 Concours d’Elegance Suisse, it won Prix de L’Espirit de Preservation.
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1 week ago |
classicmotorsports.com | J.A. Ackley
Broad Arrow Auctions says this Dodge Viper GTC ACR Extreme is the final example made of the six Black Stripe edition models made. This Viper comes with a unique gold matte exterior. It also comes with a slew of options, such as Exterior Carbon Fiber, Extreme Aero and the ACR package. The seller bills this Viper “like new,” and with good reason. It has just 113 miles on the clock.
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1 week ago |
outsidegroove.com | J.A. Ackley
It’s been a long road back to victory lane for Jeff Mays. However, last Saturday in the classic class at Volunteer Speedway, he earned his first feature win since 2000. Why the long wait? To start, he quit racing in 2001. “I’m a firm believer in that the Lord gives all of my abilities,” Jeff Mays, of Limestone, Tennessee, said. “When you do the Lord right, the Lord will do you right.
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classicmotorsports.com | J.A. Ackley
What’s a Hoffman X-8? It was the vision of its namesake, Rod Hoffman, who thought rear-engine cars would be the future–back in the 1930s. To achieve that layout, he came up with not a boxer engine, like you would later see in a Beetle. Instead, he engineered an X8 engine. The X configuration is typically shorter than a V layout, but is more complex and often weighs more. X engines rarely made it into production, often going into military applications such as aircraft, naval ships and tanks.
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