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  • Who wants a better-than-original all-aluminum 427 Shelby Cobra?

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    ME! OH I DO!!!

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  • Use your grandma to sell your car

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    Got a car you are trying to sell?  Grab your grandma, some colorful cardboard and a marker and take notes.

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  • Utah Auto Expo: Move along people, nothing to see here

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    While other well known automotive bloggers were busy reporting actual auto shows, this guy was lurking around a lesser-known, beginner auto show.  The Utah Auto Expo comes to Salt Lake City about this time every year to allow the big Auto Manufacturers to showcase their latest-and-greatest stuff available to the general public.  Yep, pretty much…

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  • Name that engine: Mine is better than yours edition

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    Ah the flathead V8, hoonerific engine staple of the American hot rodder since the beginning of time and the main source of power for many cars and trucks in the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s.  This particular example does not appear to used for people-moving however…

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  • White Triplex: 81,000 cc of doom

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    Hooning is nothing new. Sure the term is relatively new and it is often used to refer to one who drives in a manner that is fast, noisy or dangerous. I like to think that adding crazy, dangerous engines to already questionable cars and mashing the go fast pedal with complete disregard for safety also fits…

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  • Submission Thursday: Dime Edition

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    This is a tale of love and loss, twists and turns and even a surprise or two.  No it’s not an M.Night Shyamalan script, this is a story from one of our beloved readers, Mr_Biggles, about a man and his Datsun. 

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  • Autorama 2010

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    Saturday was a productive day at casa de Schmo.  I spent the better part of the morning tinkering with Eleanor.  Heck, I still have grease under my fingernails.  The latter part of the day I braved 50 degree temperatures and huge crowds to drag my two Hoons-in-training around the Sandy Expo Center for Utah Autorama. 

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  • A country boy can survive

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    We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too Ain’t too many things these old boys can’t do We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine And a country boy can survive country folks can survive Because you can’t starve us out and you can’t make us run Cause we’se them ole boys raised…

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  • Classic Cars International, Antique Auto Museum of Utah… part 2

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    Having lived in Utah for 11 years it’s a little sad that I have never heard of this place before now. Sadder yet is the fact that I have visited the industrial cleaning supply store half a block down on at least 3 occasions and FAILED TO NOTICE an effin Studebaker perched on the roof…

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  • Caption this: If the engine fits, hoon it.

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    Hmmmm, now where in the hell did I leave my keys? Via

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