Michael Thies's Blog – June 2012 Archive (1)

Drift Racing Is More Than Just The Finish Line

Road Atlanta has hosted drift racing events for several years. While Drift Racing has grown in popularity in the last decade or more, drifting is really nothing new. If your car's rear end has ever swung around on a wet road, and you've struggled for 50 feet to get control, you've drifted. Even in car racing drifting is pretty much old school.…

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Added by Michael Thies on June 13, 2012 at 4:58pm — 1 Comment

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A Bite of History: The Jaguar XK120 by Mike Thies

A Bite of History by Mike Thies

The Jaguar XK120

There are moments in automotive history when a single car changes everything, when elegance, engineering, and audacity collide to create something that feels more like a declaration than a machine. We learn that the Jaguar XK120 was one of those moments. When it first appeared at the 1948 London Motor Show, no one…