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I've been involved in several heated discussions with other racing enthusiasts over the cylindrical-shaped cover on the hood of the Cunningham Racer as depicted on the cover of the April 26 issue of TIME. Some of us think it's a sort of radarscope to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

This June Briggs Cunningham, sports-car builder and racing driver by postwar compulsion, will be out to show that his U.S.-built cars can perform with the best in the world's No. 1 road race: France's famed 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Le Mans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Millionaire at High Speed | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

By Night & by Heart. Briggs Cunningham, whose years of yachting, flying and racing have given him piercing eyes and a weather-beaten face of fine, light, top-grain leather, stood close by his speedsters in Palm Beach this week overseeing the work of the Cunningham mechanics. With Le Mans seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Millionaire at High Speed | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

But at Le Mans, no matter how much speed a car has, it must also be able to slow down to a crawl for the 90° turns-and do it quickly. Last year Cunningham & Co. saw the British Jaguars snatch victory from them with new disk brakes that withstood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Millionaire at High Speed | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

There should be no surprises on the 8.6-mile Le Mans course, a crudely rectangular ribbon of asphalt stretched over the gently rolling French countryside. Cunningham, like the rest of the Le Mans drivers, knows it by night & day, and by heart. "Among other things, there's a fog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Millionaire at High Speed | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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