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Flashback – 1985 Honda Jazz/City Futura Cabriolet
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These shots of a perfectly preserved 1985 Honda City Cabriolet were taken in 2008, when I worked in the Helsinki webdesign office in the building behind it. Looking through the photos, I thought to myself, “Has it only been five years?” It certainly feels like a world away, and I hope the Honda is in…
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Weekend Edition – The Ice Track Racers
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So yes, the track day wasn’t only for us amateurs. At the track, or over at the rallycross side to be precise, the ice track racers ran on spikes as we were already packing up our stuff. I managed to grab a few quick snaps of the real McCoys doing their practice runs.
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Weekend Edition – More Ice Track Cars
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We weren’t the only guys at the ice track event yesterday. The track was full of various local BMW:s, going around the wide track, spending most of the time sideways. This 2004 E46 330d was a good example: the guy ran all day long, keeping nice lines and without splitting any plastic parts in half.
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Weekend Edition – The Ice Track Loaner
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Over at the ice track, the arranging party had brought over a white 1991 BMW E34. For two euro per lap, you could flog it around the ice track, handily avoiding destroying anything on your own personal car. Naturally, I handed over a five euro note and some change and gave the loaner a go.
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Weekend Edition – Ice Track Fun in Eastern Finland
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This weekend, you get to read some fresh content. In fact, it’s so fresh it’s still preserved in ice and slush. I’ve just returned from an ice track in Eastern Finland, and it’s probably the single must fun thing I’ve done all winter – Amsterdam included. I’ll be posting photos and stories from the track…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Plasti-Dipped 1998 Saab 9000 CSE Turbo
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This 1998 Saab 9000 is one of the cars habitually appearing on the parking lot of my office complex. It probably belongs to a Saab enthusiast, and it’s been customized a bit with all the horizontal surfaces having been done over with a black matte material. It’s either vinyl wrap or Plasti-Dip, whatever has come…
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V.I.S.I.T. – 1996 Renault Mégane Coupé
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Chiquita, the banana company, advertise their products as “The Bright Spot in Every Day”. The same can be said of this very yellow Renault Mégane Coupé, that is one of the cars using yellow as a signature colour. When the Mégane lineup was launched in the mid-1990s, a handsome amount of the cars were eye-searingly…
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For Sale – Suzuki-Powered Kicksled
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Kicksleds are Nordic, almost quintessentially Finnish ways for grannies and grandpas to get around town in wintertime. You lean on the handlebars and kick the sled along, with your groceries on the seat on front. The leisurely pace of a regular wooden kicksled hasn’t been enough for the builder of this one, so he has…
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Fastback Friday – 1973 Ford Taunus Coupé
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Here’s a car from the pages of history books, a 1973 Ford Taunus Coupé formerly owned by the dad of a friend of mine, Jani. The spectacularly brown Taunus was in their family from new, and gathered only a reasonable 150ish thousand kms on the clock before it was sold on to Sweden. Like in…
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Truck Thursday – 1984 Toyota Hiace
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This 1984 Toyota Hiace stares at me with its cold round eyes all day every day. The garage in which it sits directly faces my office window, so it was inevitable I go shoot it one day. It also seems to be a well-enough preserved example of a trusty hauler, so it easily makes Truck…
