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  • Turbo 6-Series Project Brings the Crazy by the Bucketload

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    The good news is, for the $4995 asking price, the seller throws in a 2-ton engine hoist. The bad news is pretty much everything else. This project is the automotive equivalent of getting a whole foil-tray worth of leftover pasta from the company lunchroom on your way out the door at 6:30pm. So much food!…

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  • Hoon Hall of Fame: Horatio Nelson Jackson

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    Many of us pilot hoopties that’d have a tough time making a cross-country journey. I’d bet on one of the four cars in my driveway. Rewind to 1903, and the idea’s pure insanity.

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  • X-Pipe Exhaust Gives Crazy HPs, PAH!

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    If we needed a sweet home-fab X-pipe with cutouts, we’d totally pick this one up. PAH! eBay (Seriously, just go read the listing. Then be sure to check out the Q&A)

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  • Coop Runs in the Carerra Panamericana, We Die of Jealousy

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    Mr. Coop has a pretty good gig. When he’s not working on sweet cars, he’s making some sweet hot-rod art. When he’s not doing either of those, he’s taking pictures of naked ladies (find that link yourself). In his down time, he heads down Mexico way for the running of La Carrera Panamericana. What’s the…

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  • The Retro-Future Never Looked So Good: US Steel's A Portfolio of Probabilities

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    A friend of mine once had some really stupid roomates. Not so much stupid, as ignorant. You see, he was showing them old Three Stooges videos and they responded with “Who are these idiots? Don’t they know this is like the most played out form of comedy, like, ever?!”. Yeah, except Curly/Shemp, Moe and Larry…

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  • 1970 Road Runner Superbird is Clearly $64,500 Overpriced

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    It’s unclear why anyone in their right mind would buy this $65,000 426 hemi 440 + 4 speed equipped 1970 Superbird when you could have your own Überbird for “$500”.

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  • Überbird Rising

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    With two weekends remaining before the 24 Hours of Lemons Thunderhill Arse-Freeze-a-palooza (November 20-22), we figured it was time to get our collective ass in gear and make some progress on the car.

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  • This is My Dream Car: Tobacco King Rocket Galaxie

    This is My Dream Car: Tobacco King Rocket Galaxie

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    As hoons of finite means, we often ask ourselves “if I won the lottery, what would I buy?” This is not to say, that were we suddenly Scrooge McDuck rich, we should only buy one car. It is to ask what car amongst many would we be sure to acquire, the jewel of our collection,…

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  • Creepiest Ice Cream Truck Ever

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    True story: when The_Missus was young, her parents told her that whenever the ice cream truck was playing music, that meant they were out of ice cream. That may be mildly evil, but not as bad as this ice cream truck. Not only is it just a typical conversion van with a couple of magnets…

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  • What the Hell? "1947" Fiat-Crosley Thing

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    My first thought was Dr. Seuss Goes Racing. Beyond that, it devolves into a bunch of “huh?” and “what?”. To begin with, ain’t no way this is a 1947 anything. The seller bought it from the daughter of the original owner (and likely, builder), meaning we’re at least two levels removed from the real story.…

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