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Putting the “Sports” in Sports Cars: A Journey Through Time
On this episode of The Logbook, our History of Motorsports series, we present a lecture by Elton 'Skip' McGoun, a finance professor and automotive historian, who explores the term 'sports car' and its evolution from the early 20th century. McGoun discusses how sports cars were initially considered 'sporting cars' capable of both racing and everyday use before World War I. Throughout the 1920s, the term evolved into 'sports models' and finally 'sports cars' by the late 1920s. The lecture explains the gap between racing and touring cars, highlighting that sports cars can embody competition…
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