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Monday Video: Kawasaki catches fire at 247 mph
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Ever experienced the inevitable heat death of the universe while riding your turbocharged 2006 Kawasaki ZX14 at 247 mph? Well, this is pretty much what it looks like, from the view point of a GoPro camera strapped on the bike. This video was taken at a runway, at a speed event in Finland. The oil return…
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Sitting Pretty: (Most Likely) Abandoned 1996 Lada Samara 1500i
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I drive past this off-white Lada Samara almost every day, whenever I grab my car keys and go anywhere. It’s been sitting at the parking lot adjacent to the railway station as long as I remember, and after I first paid attention to it I don’t think I’ve seen it go anywhere. It’s on summer…
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Wagon Wednesday: 1994 BMW E34 M5 Touring Nürburgring Edition
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As a Northern European car guy, there’s a ton of cars I wish we got but didn’t. And I know there’s a lot of cars that were – even technically – available here, that never made it to the States. The BMW E34 was available with engines ranging from a lowly 1.8-litre four to the…
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Meet & Greet Part 2: Old & Rusty Picnic Video
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In addition to the photo bonanza posted earlier, here’s video from the Slovenian Old & Rusty event. There’s cars and boats and cars and boats and sunshine and general laid-back awesomeness. My skin is turning red from the sun, from just watching the video.
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Meet & Greet: Old & Rusty Picnic #1 in Ankaran, Slovenia
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Going to an enthusiast car meet in Slovenia, what would you imagine seeing? I’m pretty sure nothing could prepare you for the awesomeness that was on display at the first ever Old & Rusty picnic meet in Ankaran, a small coastal town, on June 6th. The metal there was weathered or super shiny, the cars glacially…
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Chance Encounter: 1968 Dodge Charger R/T
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It’s probably one of the more random sightings I’ve had happen lately, even if summertime usually brings out the interesting American muscle that is housed in local garages over winter. A ’68 Dodge Charger R/T just casually sitting on a street corner in the old, wooden town here, in drizzling rain. The car’s been restored…
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The Un-Wombat: Mercedes-Benz W123 200 D Finland-Spec
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Depending of the market, Mercedes-Benz W123:s can be seen differently. In the States, a W123 on the street can be a big-bumpered, biodiesel-swigging 300 D with MB-Tex seats, in Germany, perhaps a twin-cam 280 E with actual leather. Over here in Finland? 200 D with 35-year-old leopard seat covers over whatever they hide. The amazing…
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Oddball Convertible Weekend: The Volvo 262C Solaire
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The Volvo 262C is a classy car as it comes. Who wouldn’t love a plush version of a two-door 200-series, with a chopped roof designed by Bertone and a six up front? The only way to make it better is to chop that roof right out and turn it into a convertible. But of course.…
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Oddball Convertible Weekend: The AMC Sundancer
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As weird convertible cars come, it’s difficult to get much weirder than the AMC Sundancer. Come to think of it, a regular AMC Eagle is sort of offbeat – a proto-Allroad, a lifted Concord, something as backdated and unmistakably distilled in its origins as a Saab was in the ’80s, cool by not trying to…
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Oddball Convertible Weekend: The Volvo 480 Cabriolet
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“Did they really make a Volvo 480 cabriolet?” Yes, they did build a few of them. Depending of how fond you are of the wedgy Volvo, it’s either unfortunate or a blessing they didn’t build more than a small pre-production run, along with a Belgian supplier creating some prototypes of their own. But the few…
