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- Book Review: "Driving America" - Our new book Driving America, like the collection it documents, honors not only The Henry Ford’s focus on the everyday extraordinary, but the automobile’s defining role in our lives.
- October 17, 2013
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Book Review: "Driving America"
Our new book Driving America, like the collection it documents, honors not only The Henry Ford’s focus on the everyday extraordinary, but the automobile’s defining role in our lives.
- Behind the Scenes at Driving America - Driving America is an opportunity to look at America’s favorite mode of transportation in a different way. Explore the cultural significance of the car and learn more about the interactive in-museum features that make this exhibit so unique and engaging.
- January 01, 2015
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Behind the Scenes at Driving America
Driving America is an opportunity to look at America’s favorite mode of transportation in a different way. Explore the cultural significance of the car and learn more about the interactive in-museum features that make this exhibit so unique and engaging.
- Travel in South America: Visiting a Sugar Cane Plant and Driving in the Mountains, South America, circa 1930 - "Roads of the Pacific" was part of the Ford Exhibit, the most popular attraction at the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition. Visitors rode in brand new Ford V-8s over 14 reproductions of famous roads. Crews used reference photographs to construct a realistic, immersive visitor experience. These images helped them recreate part of the Inca Road, which spanned the South American Andes.
- circa 1930
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Travel in South America: Visiting a Sugar Cane Plant and Driving in the Mountains, South America, circa 1930
"Roads of the Pacific" was part of the Ford Exhibit, the most popular attraction at the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition. Visitors rode in brand new Ford V-8s over 14 reproductions of famous roads. Crews used reference photographs to construct a realistic, immersive visitor experience. These images helped them recreate part of the Inca Road, which spanned the South American Andes.
- Racing Poster, "Sports Car Club of America- Sportsmanship Demands Safe Driving," 1965-1980 - Formed in 1944, the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) organized conferences, rallies, hill climb competitions, and road races for amateur drivers and motorsports enthusiasts. In the 1950s, safety concerns led SCCA to move its road events to closed courses. In 1962, SCCA dropped its amateur-only policy and began sanctioning professional events too.
- 1965-1980
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Racing Poster, "Sports Car Club of America- Sportsmanship Demands Safe Driving," 1965-1980
Formed in 1944, the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) organized conferences, rallies, hill climb competitions, and road races for amateur drivers and motorsports enthusiasts. In the 1950s, safety concerns led SCCA to move its road events to closed courses. In 1962, SCCA dropped its amateur-only policy and began sanctioning professional events too.
- Expert Insights - Television host and stand-up comedian Jay Leno is an avid vehicle collector. Housed in Leno's "Big Dog Garage" in Southern California, his collection spans 100 years of automotive history, with antique vehicles, hot rods, muscle cars, steam cars, and electric cars. The collection also has a number of rare cars and over sixty motorcycles, including a turbine motorcycle.
- January 04, 2012
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Expert Insights
Television host and stand-up comedian Jay Leno is an avid vehicle collector. Housed in Leno's "Big Dog Garage" in Southern California, his collection spans 100 years of automotive history, with antique vehicles, hot rods, muscle cars, steam cars, and electric cars. The collection also has a number of rare cars and over sixty motorcycles, including a turbine motorcycle.
- Brooke Doran Driving McLaren Elva Mark II at Road America Can-Am Race, September 1967 -
- 01 September 1967 - 03 September 1967
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Brooke Doran Driving McLaren Elva Mark II at Road America Can-Am Race, September 1967
- Brooke Doran Driving McLaren Elva Mark II at Road America Can-Am Race, September 1967 -
- 01 September 1967 - 03 September 1967
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Brooke Doran Driving McLaren Elva Mark II at Road America Can-Am Race, September 1967
- Deft Driving, 1950 - Ford Motor Company published a series of booklets in the 1950s under the title <em>Deft Driving</em>. These handbooks were geared toward young student drivers, and they included advice for safer and more efficient operation of motor vehicles. Students could test their knowledge by answering multiple-choice questions inside each booklet.
- 1950
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Deft Driving, 1950
Ford Motor Company published a series of booklets in the 1950s under the title Deft Driving. These handbooks were geared toward young student drivers, and they included advice for safer and more efficient operation of motor vehicles. Students could test their knowledge by answering multiple-choice questions inside each booklet.
- Sportsmanlike Driving, 1961 - This textbook was used in driver education courses throughout the United States. It was produced by the American Automobile Association, which had moral and monetary interests in reducing auto accidents. Driver education was a standard part of American high schools from the 1930s through the 1990s, until public school budget and curriculum concerns shifted training to private schools.
- 1961
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Sportsmanlike Driving, 1961
This textbook was used in driver education courses throughout the United States. It was produced by the American Automobile Association, which had moral and monetary interests in reducing auto accidents. Driver education was a standard part of American high schools from the 1930s through the 1990s, until public school budget and curriculum concerns shifted training to private schools.
- Drive Shaft - In a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive automobile, the drive shaft transfers power from the engine, by way of the transmission, to the rear wheels, by way of the differential and rear axle. At both ends, universal joints -- like the one seen here -- allow the drive shaft to be connected at an angle.
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Drive Shaft
In a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive automobile, the drive shaft transfers power from the engine, by way of the transmission, to the rear wheels, by way of the differential and rear axle. At both ends, universal joints -- like the one seen here -- allow the drive shaft to be connected at an angle.