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2016 Concours D'LeMons Photo Gallery
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While in Monterey for car week, I attended the Concours D’LeMons. Yes, that’s a stretch MG, and it’s great. That car really set the tone for the event, and I couldn’t stop laughing about it. There was also a porn-sponsored race car, a Hella Shitty Bricklin (crowned later that day as Worst In Show), a…
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Everything Wrong With Hot Rod Shows
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I spent last Friday here in Reno venturing out to see the sights of “Hot August Nights”. Every year, for a week, hot rods of all flavor invade the city and take over parking lots everywhere. Thousands of vintage V8s rumble down the road, and trundle through the lots. Every casino hotel has their own…
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Weekend Edition: Hot August Nights – The Gassers
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I am the first to admit that I don’t know much about vintage drag racing, but there is just something about an old Gasser that makes me happy inside. There were a bunch of gassers hanging around, so here is a masterpost including all of my photos of gassers. They all go lumpy lumpy lumpy…
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Weekend Edition: Hot August Nights – The Mercuik
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Walk around the back of this 1951 Mercury custom, and you’d never guess anything was out of the ordinary. There are plenty of old Mercs turned into hot rod low-and-slow type cruisers. It’s got loud paint and lake pipes, tucked and chopped and channeled everything else. However, when you move around to the front of…
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Weekend Edition: Hot August Nights – Jeep Fleetvan Milk Truck?
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With some minimal research it would appear that this is what is known as a Jeep FJ-3 delivery van. They were built in the early-to-mid 1960s, though not in notable quantities. This is the first one I’ve ever seen, and frankly had never heard of them. This leads event the most avid Jeep historians to…
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Weekend Edition: Hot August Nights – The Atlantis
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Our third stop of the night was at the Atlantis Casino parking lot. This was the largest of the three stops we made, perhaps 700 cars or so were in attendance. There were a few interesting bits in this lot. Not a lot of variety, but if its old and has a V8, chances are…
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Weekend Edition: Hot August Nights – The Peppermill
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Stop #2 was the Peppermill casino parking lot. This was one of the “officially sanctioned” stops, so there were a few hundred cars on display at this show. I didn’t bother going to the biggest show at the Grand Sierra, because it was a madhouse, and I didn’t go downtown, because that’s always a mess.…
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Weekend Edition: Hot August Nights – Mopars At The A&W
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This week in Reno is a massive vintage hot-rod show called “Hot August Nights” that involves nightly car shows at all of the major casinos and most of the local restaurants. Everywhere you look all week there has been vintage rods of all kinds scooting around, and Friday night I decided to finally venture out…
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Hoonivercinema Quick Take – Street Rod Nationals Autocross
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As a little teaser for an upcoming post about the Street Rod Nationals event held last month here in Springfield, here is some footage from the autocross event that they hosted. The promoter reminded us that this was the first autocross that the Street Rod Nationals had hosted in 40 years. It was open to…
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Bulges and Muscle: The Jensen C-V8
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It must be over-exposure to Interceptors that has numbed my brain to such an extent that I’d forgotten about the forerunner that iconic glassbacked bruiser. Indeed took a good few seconds before my brain had parsed what, exactly, it was being confronted by. Of course, I proclaimed to myself. It’s a Jensen. A C-V8; the…
