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Come To The Best of France and Italy Car Show This Sunday
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Hi everybody, it’s me, Mario! Just kidding, it’s really just your old friend, Graverobber, er, Rob. I wanted to pop in to my favorite Hoon hangout to let you all know about a cool car show that’s coming up this Sunday. The Best of France and Italy show is the annual companion show to the…
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SEMA 2017: New Classic Defenders and Land Cruisers
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Retro-modding or throwback designs are all the rage now. Take an older, classic, vehicle and upgrade everything to modern standards and you get something really cool. It’s been done with American muscle cars, Porsches, and now classic 4x4s are becoming more and more popular. Two of the makers of these cool vehicles showed up at…
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SEMA 2017: Crate Engines, Turbo Four and Super Eight
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2017 SEMA is officially under way and some of the biggest news today came directly from the automakers. Both Honda and Fiat-Chrysler made big news with the engines from some of their best performing new cars are now available as crate engines. Honda showed its 306-horsepower Civic Type R engine crate engine and Chrysler showed…
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In photos: Greenwich Cars & Coffee, Aug. 2017 edition
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If you follow our Instagram account you know that a few months back I attended one of the more affluent car gatherings– at least in my area– at a meetup that consumes the whole of Greenwich Avenue in the quaint, ultra-wealthy town bearing the same name as that of the street on which the show…
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BMW Concept Z4 Debuts at Pebble Beach
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BMW has just unveiled the Concept Z4 on the pristine, oil-soaked lawns of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. We’re expecting to see an all-new Z4 roadster in production form within the next year or so and this design study offers up a preview of what’s to come. After selling the gorgeous E89 Z4 mostly unchanged…
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2016 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion in Pictures (Part 2)
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Welcome to part two of my Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion coverage that’s only a year late. If you missed the first part where I explain why I’m just now posting some of the 2,300 photos I took during last year’s vintage racing gathering at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, I suggest starting there. The short story…
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2016 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion in Pictures (Part 1)
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At about this time last year, I was extremely fortunate to attend Monterey Car Week in California for a third time – a fortune I won’t be able to repeat this year, sadly. But with things gearing up later this week, I figured it would be the right time to finally post some of the…
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Don't Squash That Gold Bug
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Many of the undertakings this olelongrooffan has shared with my fellow Hoons have been described as “Went There, Saw That” experiences and many of those experiences have been at car shows, both local and national in exposure. I have also noted that the capture of images of Tri 5 Bowties at those shows has not…
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The 21st Annual Ozark Trails Orphan Car Show
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So quite a whiles back, this olelongrooffan had the opportunity to attend a smallish Orphan Car Show here in the Music Capital of the World. It was sponsored by the Studebaker Driver’s Club so it is only appropriate the majority of attendees were products of Raymond Loewy’s Design Team. Needless to say, a longroof is…
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Wagon Wednesday: Mid America Street Rod Nationals: The Longroof Edition
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Memorial Day Weekend here in the Queen City of the Ozarks was the Mid America Street Rod Nationals gathering. It coincided with the return of the Kearney Street Cruise-In so on that Saturday this olelongrooffan was treated to a sensory overload of street rods, Mid America Style. While previous attendance was had at the South…
