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It’s one of those things you imagine will never turn out too well. This semi-beater ’96 Legacy was driven on the ice some three months ago, as a guy went fishing. Despite his claims that the ice was strong enough, the Legacy went through the ice, head-first. The driver only had time to turn off…

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A couple of weeks ago, I walked past this Alpinweiss 1986 E28 while on the way to the town centre. I’d seen it around, and the plate sounded vaguely familiar. A glance at a Finnish BMW forum confirmed my memory; the white 518 had been a project car/daily driver and had received a host of…

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The wonderful E30 M3 looks absolutely pedestrian next to the Aston Martin DBS. Growing up in Irvine. California, in the 1980s, I never thought of it as a “car town”.  True, a large number of automobile manufacturers had offices in the Irvine Spectrum business park, but the people of Irvine drove boring Caravans and Camrys.…

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This is the beginning of our tribute to the Panel Truck Weekend, and I thought I would start out with this 1956 Ford F-100 featured within the pages of Hemmings. According to the listing this is a near original, whatever that means. If you want to see more pictures of this glorious Panel, you will…

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Logo exhausts; yet another brilliant way to make brand-conscious car owners part with their money. Audi;s interlocking rings are perfect for this application, while the BMW roundel may need to actually spin and sound like one of those whistle rings you had as a kid. Mercedes would have no problem with their three-pointed star, while…

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Like the phases of the moon, or the tide, styling trends tend to wax and wan. However, unlike those natural phenomena, the popularity of certain design attributes is unexplainable to more than just Bill O’Reilly. One automotive design aesthetic that seems to have fallen out of favor is that of whitewall tires. This is surprising…

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If it was up to me I would have visited a junk yard in every country I have ever been too. Sadly none of my traveling companions ever had interest in such things. Museums, art shows, some castle ruins, cities, beaches, restourants, some old crap, everything but junk yards. Sad too, as we can learn so much…

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  “Hey Leo Kinnunen, I’m looking for an idiot in a ridiculous hat.  Have you seen him?”   “Yeah, he’s over there…”  

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So while this olelongrooffan was at that awe inspiring car show last weekend, I was relating to my Rolex24 buddy about the first time I had seen this Daytona Prototype Corvette. As would be suspected, our attention span was diverted as we saw a couple big ass car haulers pull in and we headed over…

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So, this olelongrooffan has previously shared with my fellow Hoons that I am now gainfully employed selling cargo and motorcycle trailers as well as car haulers. Yesterday morning, this olelongrooffan climbed into the passenger seat of this big ass truck down in Daytona Beach, Florida to travel to the greater east central Indiana area with…

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As I mentioned, this past weekend was a cool ass car show with a few bikes thrown in. Inside the convention center were these two old race bikes that I thought were pretty cool. Out on the grounds were a couple pretty funky looking ones but my fellow Hoons will need to make the jump…

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It’s hard to believe but the Jet Age – once the vanguard of modernity – is now considered both antiquated and quaint. At the time, back in the period from immediately post war to the tumultuous sixties, the sleek, sensuous shapes of the fast evolving aeronautical industry set the standard for everything from toasters to…

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Ever felt like you wanted a nice car door dolly or planishing hammer, but you just couldn’t afford one? Ever want to build a chassis for your hot rod from scratch, but you just didn’t have a frame jig?  Well, you are in luck, there is a new online resource that will help you accomplish…

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I once got the chance to drive a Cord 810 cabriolet. You might expect such a car to drive like a hot iron on an ice rink – smooth and stately silent, but it was anything but. The mechanical aspects of the car , both noise and fee, l were amazingly palpable. The controls –…

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Today’s two-door coupé sighting is a two-litre Alfa Romeo GTV. It’s a bold design, and the metallic black suits it extremely well. There’s generally considered to be a holy quadruplet of Italian front-wheel-drive coupés of the ’90s: the GTV and the accompanying Spider; the Fiat Coupé and the convertible Barchetta. Both pairs are related, but…

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