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Project Car SOTU 2016: Lada Lemons Racer
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The annual-or-whenever-we-get-to-it Hooniverse Project Car State of the Union is upon us. It has been five months since I received the Lada from its previous caretaker but I have not done much with it. It is basically due to the issue of parts. I ordered a ton of stuff from a place called Zakharov Auto Parts in Florida.…
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Project Car SOTU 2016: The Lion goes from strength to strength.
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When I documented the tragic events that unfolded late last year, where the life of my wife’s venerable Peugeot 306 briefly hung in the balance, public reaction was heartwarming. Internationally, the loyal readers of a website littered with exotic Mercedes, glamorous Datsun and exquisite Subaru project cars to name but a few, had embraced the…
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Project Car SOTU 2016: Rover 825 Si. Roverjoyed.
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I’m really not sure I’m doing this project car thing right. These stories are supposed to be full of skinned knuckles, bloodshed, anguish, despair and sorrow. On Monday my Audi update offered you nothing but a whimsical tale of low-stress ownership and perfect reliability. Today I follow it up with the latest on my 1997…
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Project Car SOTU 2016: Toyota 4Runner Mall Crawler
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The annual-or-whenever-we-get-to-it Hooniverse Project Car State of the Union is upon us. The last time I discussed my family truckster here was back in March when I ended up on the side of a busy highway with a flat tire. At the time I developed some plans for a summer road trip. In preparation for…
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Project Car SOTU: All My Other Stuff
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Outside of Project Toyolo, everything else has been mostly inconsequential. Two of my cars are project car series for other outlets, so I won’t go into super detail on what I’ve been doing to them here, but some links will be provided where applicable. I recently had a bunch of work done to the commuter…
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Project Car SOTU: Project ToYOLO
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I was worried that I wouldn’t really have anything new and exciting for this season’s Project Car SOTU. Then this happened. I dragged home a truck. Why? Last weekend I was out for a Sunday morning walk with my wife, and I saw this poor little thing sitting on the side of the road. The…
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Project Car SOTU 2016: Bultakenstein
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There’s a point in nearly every project where moving forward means holding your breath and jumping in over your head. That could mean expanding the scope of a project to require greater expenditures of time and money than you expected to devote to it, and perhaps well beyond what you can comfortably afford. Or, it…
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Project Car SOTU 2016: "Project" Voodoo
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It’s Project Car State of the Union time once more and I’m still without some sort of actual project car. It comes down to space issues, really. But I have a terabyte of space on my gaming PC… In an effort to contribute something for the SOTU this year, I fired up Grand Theft Auto…
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Project Car SOTU 2016: 1974 Honda CL125S
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About two months ago, I took my other project bike on its maiden voyage — a whopping 19 miles to the KC Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club’s Spring Show and back. The bike cruised quite nicely at 45-50 MPH and handled just fine, though the brakes are a whole lot weaker than I remember them being…
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Project Car SOTU 2016: 2001 Isuzu VehiCROSS
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Project VehiCROSS Update II – Wheels and tires and quirks, oh my Quick note: as with Update I, the VX has progressed since this publishing but the written updates are lagging behind real life. Such is what happens when you move… When we last left off my 2001 Isuzu VehiCROSS was sitting atop three shouldn’t-be-driven-on OEM wheels/tires and…
