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Homegrown Track Brings Best to Milford
July 20, 2011 at 7:38 pm
The GM road course at the Milford Proving Ground is an incredibly useful tool for developing the next generation of Chverolets, Buicks, GMCs and Cadillacs. The course offers a engineers a number of different opportunities to improve the vehicles they are working on. The guy wearing the helmet in the photo here is someone you may have seen before. Click through to find out who he is and what he thinks of the GM track.
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Mickey Harris is one of the leading airbrush artists in the world and in recent months he has turned a couple of Chevrolet Camaros into high-speed canvases that relay tales of history, struggle and triumph. Plus, he has more automotive art on the way. Click through to read how he got involved in this field and check out the video where he shows us the Strength and Honor Camaro and tells us the idea behind the design.
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