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...Healey Sprite, will sell for slightly less than $2,000 in the U.S. The pint-sized Honda 500 will cost about $1,100, will compare with British Motors' Mini Minor and the Fiat 600. Both the 5800 and the 500 derive from a four-cylinder Honda Formula II racer that won all ten of its Grand Prix starts this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Honda's New Wheels | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

Died. Ken Miles, 47, British auto racer, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1952 to become one of the country's top test drivers and endurance racers, most notably with the 200 m.p.h. Ford Mark Us, in which he won this year's Daytona 24 Hour Continental and Sebring twelve-hour races and barely missed winning the 24 hours of Le Mans on a dead-heat technicality; of injuries suffered when a new grand touring Ford prototype that he was testing went out of control on a curve at 100 m.p.h.; in Riverside, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 26, 1966 | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...tree. Actually, I thought he was a little too big, and I didn't quite approve of him." As Cloar portrayed him in 1955, his father is indeed as big as a tree, and he himself is a pouting boy in a soapbox racer looking for all the world as if Pa had broken a branch on him that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Summer Dies as Slowly | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...mosquito lights on the nearest creature for the blood meal she needs before she can lay her eggs. Dr. Gebhardt figured that the victim might be a snake just emerging drowsily from hibernation. Starting in 1961, he hiked miles through swamps and caught plenty of garter, gopher and blue racer snakes, but found virus in only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: Winter Resort for Viruses | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...Holland's Zandvoort race track last week, made his way slowly to a sleek green-and-gold car sitting in the front row. Then, with a smirk at the astonished crowd, Jack Brabham dropped the cane, pulled off the whiskers, revved up the engine of his Brabham-Repco racer, and roared off to win the Dutch Grand Prix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: The Grand Old Man | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

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