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Remembering a legend: Don Panoz
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A motorsports icon and brilliant entrepreneur has passed away at the age of 83. Don Panoz was a lifelong gearhead. Known for creating the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), Petit Le Mans, and helping building a lineup of wild street and track cars bearing his and his son’s last name.
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Project Car SOTU: MR2 "Someday Race Car"
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Huh. Funny, isn’t it, how Project Car SOTU sneaks up on you year after year, and you’re left questioning both how much effort you wish you had already devoted to a project and how quickly time passes without you realizing it. So here I am, again, a year after an already disappointing not-an-update update, writing…
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We went Wide Open in Baja
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I know I will never race a car in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. There’s a near-zero chance I’ll compete on some grand motorsport stage. Over the course of two days down in Baja, Mexico, however, I lived out my wannabe-racer fantasies. With Wide Open Baja, I blasted a buggy around, up, through, and…
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CraigsList: No Bank Account DefCon for a RevCon Hauler?
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RevCon is one of many RV companies and while I won’t pretend to know much about Recreational Vehicles, I will say that this very early, very modified Oldsmobile Toronado-based 1973 RevCon on Chicago CraigsList makes an interesting combination.
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Project UTV SOTU: RZR 800 Introduction
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Though a small niche of the automotive world, off-roading consumes the majority of my time, attention, and– yes– funds. Going fast on the road might be fun, but going places most wouldn’t think possible…that’s my jam. One discipline of the off-road hobby is the All-Terrain-Vehicle sector. After ten years with a Kawasaki Brute Force 650…
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Project Bike SOTU 2018: Bultakenstein
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Bultakenstein will be seven years old next month, and if you’ve been following these SOTU updates, you will not be surprised to learn that it is still nowhere near complete. For the last five months, my build-a-motorcycle-from-random-salvage-parts project (along with its little brother, my ’73 Honda CL125S project) has been crammed into one corner of…
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Project Bike SOTU: Honda CL125S
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I got stranded. Less than a week after this Honda CL125S’s SOTU post last year, the bike developed a high-RPM miss on my commute in to work. It was worse when I took the bike to lunch. It wouldn’t start at all after work. I kicked it and bump-started it with hardly a pop. I…
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Hooniverse Asks: What's the largest vehicle you've driven?
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View this post on Instagram New personal record. Largest vehicle I’ve ever driven… The 80′ Mauretania motor yacht, built in 1947 (We did maybe five knots through the harbor but they did let me knock out a u turn…
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Last Call: Tokyo To Kansas Edition
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Yesterday afternoon, I spotted this JDM Nissan President in the local Costco parking lot. It would be a fairly notable sight anywhere in North America, but it is much more remarkable to find in Overland Park, Kansas than it would be in Los Angeles or Seattle. In fact, in over three decades, this is only…
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Project Car SOTU: Rover 800 gives Sterling service
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“Relax, it’s a Rover”. That was the defunct British firm’s late ’90s advertising strapline, and I could never have credited it with being so prophetic. I mean, we all know that cars from the brand’s twilight era weren’t exactly geared towards exuberance at the wheel, so the the fact that the strapline could be interpreted…
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Project Car SOTU: The Red Camaro
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I was reflecting and somewhat laughing at how the status of my red 2001 Chevrolet Camaro has changed since I drove it home twelve years ago. My (now) project car happens to also be my very first car that I still have and more importantly, love. The big red bow tie came into my life…
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On the Track with Dodge's new Challenger R/T Scat Pack Widebody
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Out of Detroit’s three, the Challenger has always been the king at the drag strip, a king that rules with such a big crown the NHRA ended up casting down a ban on the late Demon variant. But can the big Dodge control itself at speed when the wheel isn’t pointed straight? Yes, oh gosh…
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Project Car SOTU: Project McProjectfaceOr, an owner's review of the Mustang GT Performance Package 2
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This isn’t really a “project” car per se, but I did add something to my stable worth talking about. And I’ve been wanting to talk about it for nearly half a year now. After falling in love with the new Mustang GT I abused rented while out in California back in March, I was certain my…
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Project Car SOTU: Dr. Wankel's Legitimate Pharmacy Mazda RX-8
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After Dr. Wankel’s first Lemons race, at Barber Motorsports Park this past winter, most of our team convoyed through sub-zero temperatures up to Illinois—the race car’s new home. And there it sat, largely untouched in one teammate’s garage, for about 4 or 5 months. Meanwhile, our group of friends mostly spent our free time…
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Hooniverse Asks: What is your favorite low-buck upgrade?
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It was maybe 40 bucks, but it made the truck feel all new to me. A Lokar throttle cable made the pedal feel smoother, allowed me full range of throttle travel, and basically opened up the carb to let it breathe a full four-barrel breath. http://hooniverse.info/2016/06/10/hoontruck-a-fresh-throttle-cable-equals-a-brand-new-machine/ There are other upgrades that are probably far less…
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Carchive: The 1966 Renault 16
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Here’s a debate worth having: what did the major car producing nations contribute during the 1960s, really? Here’s my take on it in really broad strokes. Britain? Well, there were two areas that the UK had a firm grip on; posh stuff and cheap stuff. The middle ground, the kind of stuff that families drove…