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Attention all who drool over head-turning, rubber-burning cars: Here’s your candy store.
This weekend the world famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway hosts two days of races between hundreds of vintage vehicles spanning the past 100 years. They’re billing the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational as the “largest gathering of race cars in the United States.”
Al Unser Jr., Buddy Lazier, Parnelli Jones and Bobby Unser. Ever heard of these guys? They’re Indy 500 winners. They’ll be there – on the track and behind the wheel.
The whole weekend threatens to be a 100-mph-plus parade of eye-popping race cars that would quite literally blow your hair back.
But let’s be frank: This is a celebration of a time when race cars were, well, a helluva lot more interesting to look at. Right?
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Same with Jones’ 1963 winning car “Ol’ Calhoun,” which took the checkered flag as it crossed Indy’s brick start/finish line. Respect Calhoun’s awesome side-pipe and its snazzy front-end air scoops.
Both cars are expected to…
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