Beautiful Machines: The Era of the Elegant Sports Car

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Petrolheads and diesel devotees: buckle up, we're going for a ride. And we're not just taking you on any old jalopy; we've got the keys to the Porsche 917, Ferrari Daytona, Jaguar D-Type, and many more of the best works of machinery to have ever hit the road. In Sports Cars we look under the hood of classic cars that became icons of generations, tracing back its history and highlighting the engineering.

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Blake Z. Rong is a freelance writer, editor and journalist whose work has appeared in Autoweek, Road & Track, Jalopnik, Automobile, and Petrolicious, among other publications. He grew up in Massachusetts and holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in New York with a cat named Moose. Jan Baedeker writes about car culture, travel and design. He is the Creative Director and Editor-in-Chief at Classic Driver. In 2017, he co-edited Fast Forward -- The Cars of the Future, The Future of Cars published by gestalten.