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  • Silverstone Classic: Oddballs and Rarities

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    Hopefully, you have not yet grown weary of our ongoing coverage of the Silverstone Classic. If you have, perhaps this final installment will rekindle your interest. We’ve saved the best (or at least the hoony-est) for last. This post will be a photo dump of some of the odd and rare vehicles that turned up…

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  • Hagerty's Festival of the Unexceptional

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    If you have turned on your computer in the last two weeks, you have surely seen coverage of the Concours d’LeMons, which is a growing car show that celebrates “the oddball, mundane, and truly awful of the automotive world. Another show, which you may not have heard about, is the Festival of the Unexceptional –…

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  • Career Change? 80 Acre, 8000 Car Salvage Yard For Sale

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    This is a Google Maps photo of L&L Classic Auto in Wendell, which is currently on the market for the low, low price of $3,000,000.00. Only three million dollars to to turn your life around! What do you get for that investment? You get 80 acres of lush, potato-adjacent, Idaho countryside and, more importantly, you…

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  • Weekend Plans: The Carl Davis Collection Auction

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    You say you’ll be near Cleveland, Oklahoma this weekend?  You say you have a few extra thousands you don’t know what to do with?  Well, I’ve got an idea for you: Why not go check out the Carl Davis car/truck/tractor collection being auctioned off by VanDerBrink Auctions LLC?

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  • Toyota FX32 Wins At 24 Hours Of Lemons BFE GP

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    Everybody’s favorite Toyota FX with an MR2 shoved up its backside has done something unprecedented.  It is the first twin-engine, four wheel drive car to actually win at a Lemons event.  Somehow this little gem – which was built in a mere three months’ time earlier this year under Hooniverse’s watcful eye – not only ran…

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  • JDM Legends Meet: Photo Dump

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    Most cruise nights are pretty predictable.  There will be several Tri-5 Chevrolets, plenty of Mustangs and Camaros, a few rat rods, and some muscle cars.  After a while, they start to blend together and it takes something really special to grab attention.  The meet at JDM Legends wasn’t like that.  The cars that showed up…

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  • JDM Legends Thursday Meet: The Skylines

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    JDM Legends holds a meet once a month for classic Japanese cars.  All sorts of sweet Japanese car geeks show up with cool Toyotas, Hondas, Subarus, and Datsuns.  A separate post will follow detailing all that great variety, but this one is just for the Skylines. Click through to get your Niss-on.  (*self-congratulatory fist pump*)

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  • Welding Two Cars Together: FX32 Lemons Build Video

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    Just in case we have fallen short on our coverage of the two-engined MR2/FX mashup Lemons build, here’s one more post about it. Many of the commenters in the previous posts have asked for more photos of the build process. Well wish no more, for here are all of the pictures, strung together, into a 7…

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  • Fastback Friday: World's Nicest '82 Capri Up For Sale

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    Note: The claim in the title of this post is based on thousands tens of hours of research in this area. If you want to pick nits, perhaps it should read, “World’s Nicest 1982 Capri RS 5.0 4-Speed Is Up For Sale”. The point is, this thing is sexy sweet and you need it. You…

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  • Sears Pointless Highlight: TransMission IMPossible

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    [image: caranddriver.com] The guys over at Flaming A-Holes racing put together one of the greatest Lemons cars in the history of ever.  A Hillman/Sunbeam Imp.  Not only did it start the race, which was an impressive acheivment, it accomplished several other amazing feats.  First, it raced all day Saturday.  Second, it raced all day Sunday. …

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