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The parking lot at the Greenwich Concourse D’Elegance is the show within the show. Everything shows up including modern exotics, to classics, cool trucks, crazy imports, track cars. Here are 120 or pictures of the vehicles I found most interesting. The most amazing part about the parking is how close all these cars are parked…

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Everybody getting bored of the continuous E28 posts popping up around these parts, raise your hand. Good. I don’t really care – I like them so much. Now that little bit of tending-to-the-reader-base is out of the way, let’s focus on this exquisitely good-looking sharknose which parked under my window on Sunday. Yeah, sometimes I…

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What is it about brown cars? For some reason, and despite the color never cracking the top three in general popularity, it seems that we all have an affinity for poo-colored cars. Cars have been painted brown since long before Pantone established the color’s various pms permutations, but it seems to have really come into…

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Viva Las Vegas is one of the greatest collections of pre-1964 hot rods, rat rods, originals and restored American rides in the world.  It is also one of the largest collections of the members of today’s rockabilly sub-culture.  Yours truly will be there covering it for your reading pleasure! Hit the jump for more info…

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Continuing on with the Vocational Truck Weekend, and I have to ask this question… How many of you are aware that the two biggest truck companies in the states are both European? Daimler owns Freightliner and Western Star trucks (they also owned the Sterling Trucks Brand — a set of vehicles created from the acquisition…

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Last week I wrote about the marvel of the Brough Superior, and I can’t help but feel that I might have been a little bit irresponsible. So this week, instead of following up to that story, I want to put a PSA out there. We’re all looking out for each other, right? Owning a classic…

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Upon seeing pictures of the real DeltaWing racer TopGear said “screw that, we can build a DeltaWing racer too!”, and they did. Upon seeing the Topgear DeltaWing racer our own dwegmull said “screw it, I can build a DeltaWing racer too!”, and he did!! Ok, so dwegmull’s DeltaWing can’t move on its own power and it…

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I have posted a number of S-Class Mercedes-Benzes, but they have been the later ’80s W126 body shape without exception, so far. This time, I have an earlier W116 280SE to show, parked on the lot of a trucking company. It’s rough around the edges, but the chrome’s still good and it’s worth looking at.…

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Please welcome the second of a few new contributors, Ray Lindenburg. Ray comes to us from his own website, hatchtopia.com, which is, surprisingly, about hatchbacks. Please make Ray feel equally welcome and awkward at the same time, as you did Scott. -KK I saw my high school dream car on eBay last night. It was exactly as I…

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Welcome to the Sunday Edition of the Hooniverse Weekend Edition, continuing with our postings produced from the Other Makes category of eBay Motors, and look at this gem. This is a 1960 P4 Rover 100 Saloon that is currently residing in Central Point, Oregon. This is a glorious Saloon from the British Empire that you…

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Hello, and welcome to the Sunday Edition of the Hooniverse Weekend of eBay Showdowns. When Lee Iacocca was at the helm of the revitalized Chrysler Corporation, he invited Carroll Shelby to inject some excitement into the lineup, using existing product. By this time, Chrysler was awash in K-Car derivative models, the L-Body Omni and Horizon…

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This olelongrooffan was heading back to the Taj Mahal after hawking trailers all day long and I spotted this beauty in the parking lot of a local beer joint. I had to grab this grainy image of the bumper to show where the jack was to be slotted while changing a tire back in the…

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 Very low MSRP, unique styling, and a name nobody knows or will question. Sounds like a pretty decent formula for a motorcycle to us. Cleveland Cycle Werks has been around for several years now to fill an interesting niche in the marketplace: that of style over substance. Cleveland offers inexpensive Chinese built motorcycles whose design…

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So it seems this happened. Inevitable build thread by the yellow ribbon-wearing Master Chief may be found here. Image: [Scionlife]

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While they may describe Polo as the sport of kings, racing spec Ferraris could be considered equally demanding of a princely pocketbook. Here we have a procession of the well-heeled heel and toeing a bunch of 458s through the lead turn in Laguna Seca’s infamous Corkscrew. Everything seems to be going as planned when. .…

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  You may have heard of them – scooters.  Seen them in the local grocery store or big box… NO. What you’re thinking of is a mobility scooter.  Nor is a scooter a moped or a child’s toy.  How many times DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN… Sorry.  I’m not bitter.  Just perturbed.  I’ve been roundly…

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