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Project Car SOTU: '95 Acura Integra GS-R
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Ah, yes, my beloved 1995 Acura Integra GS-R. A good friend of mine was nice enough to store it for me over the cold winter months. Now, two and a half years later, I got it out of there as he had to sell the place. As you may expect, exactly nothing happened to the…
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Project Car SOTU: Too Many Falcons
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What do the 1960-1965 Ford Falcon and Ranchero, ‘64.5-66 Mustang, ’70-’77 Maverick, ’75-’80 Granada, ’60-’65 and ’71-77 Mercury Comet, ’75-’80 Mercury Monarch and ’77-’80 Lincoln Versailles have in common? About 80% of their engineering. That laundry list represents something like 5 million cars. Between the high sales volume and the generally unloved status of many…
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Project Car SOTU: The Wombat
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This one has been a long road, and we’re still far from the end. I bought this 1984 Mercedes-Benz 300TD back in 2013. My dreams and plans were filled with smoky burnouts, roadtrips with my family, and living that longroof lifestyle. None of that happened. The shop we first used for this build managed to fit…
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Project Car SOTU: Stormtrooper 4Runner
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We’ve all been there, past the point of frustration and agony and anger and heartbreak and “I fucking hate this giant metal piece of shit,” cresting the point of “why do I even do this?” and stepping well into the territory of, “I’d be better off if I had no involvement in this whatsoever.” I…
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Project Car SOTU: The Benz
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I just call it The Benz, but really my 1974 Mercedes-Benz 280 sedan is often referred to as Sunday Morning. This is a car that I bought to shuttle my daughter around in, which I could not do in my 1965 Ford F100. And so it serves as a great daily driver and daycare express…
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Project Car SOTU: The Ranchero(s)
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Hey Everybody! Remember me? Been a while. But you don’t care about my excuses, you (might) care about my Ranchero(s). Time for an update from Rancho Ranchero….
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Project Car SOTU: Justy Little Project Car
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As I focused on the RX-8 race car and a fix-and-flip MR2 project, the Justy didn’t get much attention. Not that it needs a whole lot to keep going—it’s been problem-free since the engine rebuild—but it does have many smaller needs to just make it a better car. I’ve been slowly trying to address…
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Project Car SOTU: MR2 "Someday Race Car"
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Huh. Funny, isn’t it, how Project Car SOTU sneaks up on you year after year, and you’re left questioning both how much effort you wish you had already devoted to a project and how quickly time passes without you realizing it. So here I am, again, a year after an already disappointing not-an-update update, writing…
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Project UTV SOTU: RZR 800 Introduction
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Though a small niche of the automotive world, off-roading consumes the majority of my time, attention, and– yes– funds. Going fast on the road might be fun, but going places most wouldn’t think possible…that’s my jam. One discipline of the off-road hobby is the All-Terrain-Vehicle sector. After ten years with a Kawasaki Brute Force 650…
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Project Bike SOTU 2018: Bultakenstein
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Bultakenstein will be seven years old next month, and if you’ve been following these SOTU updates, you will not be surprised to learn that it is still nowhere near complete. For the last five months, my build-a-motorcycle-from-random-salvage-parts project (along with its little brother, my ’73 Honda CL125S project) has been crammed into one corner of…
