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2019 Ford Ranger touts ASS TORQUE
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My good friend Leo (follow his Instagram here) went to the 2018 Overland Expo East. Ford was there showing off their new 2019 Ford Ranger. The Toyota Tacoma pretty much owns the mid-size pickup truck segment and is hugely popular with the outdoorsy types, so this was a good marketing move. In their advertising, Ford makes…
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Paying Tribute to My Motoring Roots
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Who launched your passion for cars? For me it was my dad. Cars were definitely a thing growing up in the DeGraff house. When I was stroller-bound, my parents used to roll me down the street to the corner of of Brown Deer Road and Pelham Parkway to watch cars drive by, rain or shine, for…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Vicariously Assemble a Porsche 914 Engine
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If you’re anything like me then you no doubt find engine assembly a fascinating endeavor to watch. Here we’re seeing a pretty unique effort take place, the assembly of a VolkswagenType 4 engine. A few factors make the flat-four engine design different from most others. First off, there’s the split crankcase which holds the crank and…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Gear Up
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The reason I’m comfortable with having Hagerty as an insurer is because they really seem to get what the whole old car experience is all about. (Full disclosure: I insure my old cars through Hagerty, but they don’t pay me shit to link to their videos, I just think they’re stinkin’ cool.) Here we have…
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Because it's Monday: Let's See How Close a Ford Granada Really Was to a Mercedes 300SEL
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A lot of people malign American cars from the ’70s, and for good reason. What most people might not realize however is that this was the decade when it hit the Big Three that the concept of both luxury and performance was being redefined by European and Japanese manufacturers. Ships of industry are hard to…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Contemplate the Tiny Alternator on Jay Leno's Daimler SP250
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The best way to get Jay Leno to show up at your car show is to hold the event close enough to his Burbank, California shop that the car needn’t come up to heat to get there. That wasn’t quite the case with the recent Queen’s English car show where Jay brought his Daimler SP250…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Listen to This Hairy Henderson
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In August of 1913, at age 22, Carl Stearns Clancy returned to his home in New York. This might not seem a particularly noteworthy fact until you discover that Clancy had been away from home for the better part of a year and during that time he had managed an 18,000-mile journey, circling the globe via motorcycle. This…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Take In The Zen Garden That is This 1961 Alvis TD21 Drophead
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Breathe in deeply. Hold it in. Okay, let that breath out slowly through your nose. Now try exhaling through only one nostril. There, now aren’t you feeling relaxed? No? Well then watch this soothing video of a 1961 Alvis TD21 and feel the stress melt away. Alvis was one of a number of auto makers to…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Watch a Bentley W12 Engine Being Put Together
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I just love taking things apart and putting them back together. Well, to be honest, I really love just taking things apart. The putting together oftentimes befuddles me and I inevitably end up with a number of unidentifiable parts left over at the end. That’s why I find this video of craftsmen assembling the Volkswagen-engineered…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Watch This VERY NSFW Chrysler Plymouth Dealer Ad Parody
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That’s Chick Lambert, and that’s Chick’s dog “Storm on the hood of that fine Ford product. This ad parody is from 1969 and is waaay inappropriate for mixed company so make sure grandma and the nuns are out of the room before you watch it. Why can’t ads be this good in real life? Source: YouTube
