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War forces people to invent things they would never have thought of at other times. This applies to all areas of human endeavor, including automobile manufacturing. An example is the Radschlepper Ost (RSO) wheeled tractor, produced at the Škoda plant in Pilsen, Czech Republic, which fell under German occupation during...
‘Scary’ is not an adjective uttered often by seasoned racing drivers in the company of their peers, but it tripped easily from the lips of the small band of heroes who drove Porsche’s first 12-cylinder Type 917 sports cars. Few racing cars since the hairy-chested Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union Grand...