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Motorsports Weekend Guide: January 16 to January 18
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Here’s another summary of who is racing what this weekend across the globe and the U.S. This week, most of the racing is focused locally in the States and while this forthcoming weekend is relatively quiet, the racing picks up in a hurry starting next week. The completely brief guide to motorsports series alluded to…
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Vintage Wheels wants to make it easier for you to buy classic cars
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The Internet can be a daunting place for someone in the market for a classic car, particularly those who don’t necessarily know what they’re looking for. While some sites already aggregate classified postings, new classic-car browsing site Vintage Wheels sifts through the classified detritus with a slick and powerful interface. The site aggregates postings, sure, but…
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Polygons ahoy: Some MS-DOS racing games worth a try on Archive.org
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If you’re around my age (and probably a few years older), you came of age around the time when home computing was similarly coming of age. And if you’re like me, you spent an inordinate amount of time tinkering with polygonal and/or text-based MS-DOS games. While many of these games have fallen into the Abandonware…
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24 Hours of LeMons holds official Guinness Record for largest race
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Last September, Hooniverse’s own Tim Odell and I joined the 24 Hours of LeMons’ Supreme Court for the series’ “Vodden the Hell Are We Doing” at Thunderhill Raceway. That race was the first LeMons race on the new five-mile “Thunderschleife” circuit, which allowed the largest field in series history and, as it turns out, in the official…
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Motorsports Weekend Guide: January 9 to January 11
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The year 2015 brings with it a new season in racing and a chance to start things anew. While this isn’t the first Motorsports Weekend Guide of the year, it is the first of a new format that, well, isn’t quite done. But it will be. In the near future, the weekend guide will feature…
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Motorsports Weekend Guide: January 2 to January 4`
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Welcome to the first edition of the 2015 Motorsport Weekend Guide. As this week and weekend sort-of bridge the gap between 2014 and 2015, I’ll use the 2014 format but look for some changes through the coming year to keep you on top of motorsports every weekend, regardless of where you are or what kind…
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Last chance: The Turbo Taxi 24 Hours of LeMons car is junkyard-bound
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The 24 Hours of LeMons is, ostensibly, a racing series for cars whose running gear costs $500, but sometimes car builders get carried away and blow by that dollar figure. Usually, those builders end up swimming in penalty laps, but the right type of insane car builder doesn’t mind that because they ultimately have an…
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The Year in 24 Hours of LeMons: A hazy 2014 retrospective, part two
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Yesterday, I wrote a characteristically long-winded recap of the 2014 24 Hours of LeMons season that had it all: Words, bad jokes, deliberately incorrect racetrack names, and words. So many words. Today, I bring you a gift: These two droids. Both are hard-working and will serve you well Some good ol’ geeky number crunching. Follow…
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Digging around for Discovery's Chrome Underground
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[Editor’s Note: We asked Eric if he wanted to review a new reality show about cars. He said he doesn’t watch reality TV. We said “perfect”.] I’m not typically someone who would be called upon as a television critic, let alone one of a reality show, but I recently got my greasy hands on a…
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The Year in 24 Hours of LeMons: A hazy 2014 retrospective, Part One
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The end of the year is the time of examining one’s past year, finding faults, and then making half-hearted attempts to amend those faults the following year. At least, that’s what a very specific fortune cookie told me last weekend. Or maybe it was a scythe-wielding parrot from a great bad dream. Ah, memories. I…
