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Project Car SOTU: Motor City Muscle
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How do you know it’s time to move on from a project car? When it sits in your garage, and while you think about driving it, it doesn’t bother you at all that you don’t. That is where I am with my 95 Mustang GT, hence, it’s time to sell it and move on.
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Project Car SOTU: Toyota MR2 "Someday" Race Car
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It’s a situation that us car lovers fantasize over: a car somehow falls into your lap and you feel not only morally obligated, but genuinely excited, to accept it as your own. You welcome it with open arms, tell your friends of the new addition to your fleet, spend hours on the internet researching the…
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Project Car SOTU: Subaru WRX
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I’ve been posting a lot test-drive reviews lately, and not without weight to them. It’s probably been easy to pick up on, but it’s time to spell it out: I’m shopping for a possible replacement for my WRX. Not yet entirely sold on getting rid of it, I’m simply driving cars that are on my…
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Project Car SOTU: The Ranchero 2.0
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Hey folks. It’s been a while. Might as well get back in the swing of things with a project car update. When you last saw, we’d done a little work on the rearend of the New Ranchero (Ranchero Nuevo? Two-chero? New-chero?) and were getting ready to do the cage. To fast forward through it all:…
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Project Car SOTU UK Edition: Nothing to see here
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Three cars belong to my household. There’s the Audi A4 1.8T, a car with a reputation for a serious appetite for suspension ball joints and ignition coilpacks. Then there’s a ’95 Peugeot 306, which has the multiple afflictions of being French, old and worthless. And pride of the fleet is our Rover 800, widely regarded…
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Project Car SOTU: The Benz
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This year I added a new machine to my stable. I use the term stable loosely, because there’s not that much in there, and also I don’t own any horses. This is my 1974 Mercedes-Benz 280. It’s a w114 Benz, and it’s thankfully not saddled with a diesel engine. Instead, it gets the delightful inline-six…
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Project Car SOTU: (Hopefully) Brief Ownership of an AW11
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Chris, a co-worker at my day job, teased me for two years with the possibility that he’d sell his MR2. It had been in his family since new, first bought in 1986 by his uncle and handed down to his brother and himself later on. It was a car they enjoyed during their college years,…
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Project Car SOTU 2017: Hoon Truck Jr.
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[Working project title] It’s barely been two months since I took ownership of the 2002 Ford F-150 I call a childhood hero, so this isn’t going to be as big of a Project Car State of the Union update as some of the other guys here will have. I formally introduced it back in June…
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Project Car SOTU: Justy Little Compression Test
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It’s been about 2.5 years since I first tested compression on my Justy project car’s three cylinders. That was when I found out it was running on only two of them. Adjusting the valves made it a little better, but it still needed not only a valve job, but a full rebuild. Now that the…
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Project Car SOTU: Stormtrooper 4Runner
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There must be some unwritten rule, something of a taboo, about not thinking positively about a project vehicle while in its presence. It’s almost like the car, or truck, knows when your brain inwardly speaks well of it and, as if it has a special sense, proceeds on its own accord to kick you…
