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- <text id=89TT1459>
- <title>
- June 05, 1989: Business Notes:Trucking
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 05, 1989 People Power:Beijing-Moscow
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- TRUCKING
- Cushy Ride For Indy Cars
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Seventy years ago, race-car drivers like the legendary
- Barney Oldfield used a simple method to bring their cars to the
- track: they drove them there. No more. Today's million-dollar
- race cars are hauled around in souped-up trailers equipped with
- elevator platforms for loading, fully outfitted machine shops,
- wood-paneled meeting rooms, stereos and videocassette recorders.
- Says former racer Bruce Canepa: "Race-car trailers are an art
- form in themselves."
- </p>
- <p> Canepa has good reason to boast. His company, Concept
- Trailers, based in Santa Cruz, Calif., builds trucks for
- transporting race cars, crews, tools and supplies in classy
- comfort. His 50-ft. trailers, which sell for an average
- $275,000, hauled 30 of the 33 cars that were to take part in
- Sunday's Indianapolis 500.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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