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African-American Wendell Scott Should be in NASCAR's Hall of Fame

Steve Parker | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

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Steve Parker

Scott was the first African-American to compete regularly in and certainly the only one to win a NASCAR Grand National race, now known as Sprint Cup, the sport's top national series.

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2008 SEMA Show in Las Vegas -- Last Gasp for High-Performance Cars? SEMA photo album now available, too

Steve Parker | Posted 12.10.2008 | Business

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Steve Parker

Many of the people and companies we saw at SEMA last week may very well be out of a job or out of business by next year's show.

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Clean-diesels hit the market; VW's 2009 Jetta TDI already hard to find

Steve Parker | Posted 11.06.2008 | Green

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Steve Parker

This post was written originally for the Santa Monica Daily Press newspaper (www.smdp.com) so please excuse the few Southern California references ......

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Paul Newman, Race Car Driver, 83

Steve Parker | Posted 10.29.2008 | Entertainment

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Steve Parker

His movie bosses were never happy with his racing; it's not easy to get insurance on a production with a star who spends his weekends racing.

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