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Tech Day at The 24 Hours Of LeMons Humidi TT at Sebring International Raceway
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So, on July 4th, 238 years ago our Founding Fathers signed a document that created these United States of America and this olelongrooffan was the lucky recipient of that event by being awarded a rare Friday off work. Alternately, the 24 Hours of LeMons Powers That Be decided to schedule their Tech Day up at the Sebring…
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Kirkland Classic Car Show – the trucks, and nothing but the trucks
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Sunday July 28 was the Kirkland Classic Car Show, hosted by The Legends Car Club. The show itself was a massive turnout, with all of the streets in downtown Kirkland full of cars and trucks on display. If you’ve never attended a car show in Kirkland, let me set the scene for you. Sitting on…
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Nürburgring Sightings – Isdera Imperator 108i & Spyder 033i-16
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again… you can pretty much expect to see anything on four wheels when you get near the Nürburgring. One of the best examples of this limitlessness is the fact we were walking towards our parked car, and the words that came out of my mouth were “[expletive-laden…
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Hooniverse Goes to Germany – Adenau Street Sightings
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Like last year, this August I boarded a plane and eventually landed at the Düsseldorf International Airport. I was then picked up in a humble Renault Clio, and after some time on the motorway found myself on a camping site not too far from the revered Nürburgring. And this year, too, you will benefit from…
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Go-karts and Starlets – 1999 Toyota Starlet Ecotronic Chic is econobox excellence
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Did any of you think my review of the old-shape Suzuki Swift was overly harsh? My ruthless treatment was down to the fact I had previously spent some time behind the wheel of a comparable Toyota Starlet, and expected the Swift to at least match it. The Starlet, you see, was the kind of no-frills…
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This olelongrooffan Is No Longer A Cars and Coffee Virgin
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That’s right my fellow Hoons. This olelongrooffan has been to some pretty awesome places in the past few years. I have visited The Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, spotted a vintage Cadillac Flower Car in a killer junkyard up in the Hoosier State, strolled through The Cussler Museum out in Ms. Martin hometown, and snuck into…
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2013 Vintage Volkswagen Show & Swap sponsored by Cascade Kombis – Beetles and Ghias and Things; oh, my!
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As I mentioned in a previous post, I had the opportunity to attend the big vintage VW show in Shoreline, WA. It was a really big event, with hundreds of VW’s on hand. In fact, the event has grown so big over the years that they have decided to move to a larger venue…
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Seaside Sightings – Cars in Ohtakari
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Last weekend, we jumped into the Peugeot and drove a half hour’s distance north from here, to see a coastal village that was said to be worth seeing. And it was actually a positive surprise: soft sand, red wooden huts, seaside scenery and a general feel of being somewhere in the best bits of the…
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2013 Vintage Volkswagen Show & Swap sponsored by Cascade KombisThe Buses
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This past Saturday, I had the opportunity to attend the 32nd annual Vintage VW Show & Swap, put on by the good folks at Cascade Kombis. I’m not the biggest VW aficionado, but I love a car show no matter what’s on display. I got up bright and early, grabbed my coffee and camera,…
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Canepa's Porsche 959s
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As you may recall, a bunch of us caravanned from Hanzel’s in Oakland to the Santa Cruz Mountains for Canepa Motorsport’s Cars & Coffee. In addition to the car meet in the parking lot, the good people at Canepa opened up their incredible work shop and storage facility. We got to see NINE of the…
