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Three Words: Nova. Wagon. Gasser.
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Here’s the question, Hoons: what would you do with a ’65 Nova Wagon with a straight-axle conversion and a 327 with dual Holley 450’s? Soccer practice, here we come. Found on Craigslist.
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Mini Cooper Selling for $25,000 — That's an Austin, not a BMW Mini
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Having just spent a great deal of time shopping around for a new Mini Cooper S, I know that $25,000 Canadian is a pretty good price for one in perfect shape with low miles. I also know that many dealerships still list the new BMW-built Minis as Austin Minis instead. What I don’t know is…
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If You Can Read This, That Means Jeff Was Victorious
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…and we’ll be back in action shortly.
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New York Times Sunday: Artist Peter Max and his Corvette Collection.
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I was going to run this piece for Modern Art Monday, but this story is so compelling it’s now under New York Times Sunday Edition. Anyway, I have a surprise for Modern Art Monday. This is a very interesting story by the New York Times author Daniel McDermon, as he described telling how the Corvettes…
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The Designers Night 2010 Party; How did they let the Hoons in?
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Covering the North American International Auto Show in Detroit was a treat, as I was able to co-mingle among the journalists and bloggers I have come to know over the past several years. So what if there was very little in the way of news; Who cares if the bloggers were making up posts to…
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Last Call- A Segway I Would Ride Edition
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You know what is holding the Segway back from being more than just a doughnut crumb-covered mall-cop prop? Why, a pair of turbofan propulsion units, of course! Designer Samir Sadikhov realized this omission and has come up with the Falcon, a design proposal that rectifies this discrepancy, and adds a new term to the segway’s…
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2011 Infiniti (a)M(azing)
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Infiniti recently set up camp at the Olympic Training Center outside of San Diego to show off their totally re-worked M sedan. It now has the swoopy lines and muscular stance that the rest of the family enjoys, but is it an improvement from the previous generation?
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Craigslist Find: International No-Brainer Edition
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Eureka! That’s what you’ll be saying about this idiot-proof steal, because that’s where you’re going in order to rescue this leviathan from certain doom…
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Well Blow Me Down
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0qeYd5gcnQ[/youtube] After this morning’s discourse of turbos vs. blowers (actually, only roots-style superchargers are blowers) I remembered this video from a few years back. If you haven’t seen it, it’s pretty fun, especially when the wheelie bars FAIL. Sadly, they don’t show the big blower running, but the images look like something out of an…
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Patchwork Beetle: your grandmother is jealous
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Maybe your grandmother had a VW Beetle similar to this one. Chances are, she didn’t wrap it in vintage fabrics from the Middle East, show it off at Milan Design Week and auction it off for charity towards the Haiti earthquake. Bokja Design did, however, and with surprisingly charming results. Though I can’t imagine what…
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2010 Lexus IS250 AWD
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An entry-level luxury sedan should accomplish a few things. It should be fun to drive, provide a taste of what’s in store if you explore deeper into the model lineup, and show the world that you are climbing your respective career ladder. You may wish this were not the case but we live in a materialistic…
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Hooniverse Asks- Turbocharged or Supercharged?
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The old racing maxim goes Injection is nice, but I’d rather be blown. Of course, who wouldn’t? But which method of forced induction blows up your skirt?
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Not-Recycling Hurts Us All, Especially This Guy
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Who knew trash day could be so dangerous? This poor guy’s just trying to feed the dumpster, but the driver of the Renault is apparently angry that he’s mixing dark and clear plastics.
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The Power of Dreams…and Smoke Machines: Third Gen Accord Limos
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Have you ever been traveling in a limo, be it for prom, a wedding, or a totally XX-rated bachelor party trip to the airport and concluded that your stretched automobile riding experience would be much, much more pleasurable if the vehicle was smaller, less flashy, less luxurious, comically underpowered and Japanese? Well, apparently Jules Kaplan…
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’65 Fleetwood Brougham Drops Anchor on Route 66, Needs a New Home
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Remember when Cadillac built a vehicle that was taken just as seriously by this continent’s rich and famous as its foreign competition but wasn’t called Escalade? Me neither. However, Tomsk the Elder and I spotted this three-owner, large-and-in-charge barge Thursday while walking along the town’s northerly east-west artery (less than a mile west of the…
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Found on Ebay – Sprechen Sie AWESOME Edition
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Upon seeing this ad on ebay.de, I could only think of one thing. Deartháir stomping up and down, gnashing his teeth and screaming, “But daddy, I want it, NOW!”