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  • Retromobile 2015: The Cars Outside

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    Last weekend, I attended the large car show in Paris called Retromobile. It’s basically a new car show, a classic car show, a swap meet, a car auction, and a road rally all rolled into one– in French. I had a great time and there is so much to share. We’ll start with the cars…

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  • V.I.S.I.T. – Mystery Jeep Half-Cab

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    I ran across this Jeep CJ pickup a while back, serving as a parking lot attendents’ service vehicle. Any longer-wheelbase CJ-6 is a rare enough sighting. A CJ-6 wearing a half-cab hardtop is rarer still. This one, however, is downright bizarre: notice that the only seam between the cab and the body is the uneven…

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  • V.I.S.I.T: Land of the Rising Sun, Zero inspired Datsun 240Z

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    Way back when in the time Independence Day was the top movie in the box office and the Macarena was permanently burned into our memories, I was perfecting my skills in driving a manual transmission. I first learned when I was 14 on a 1984 Maserati Biturbo that my father had at the time. I…

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  • V.I.S.I.T. – Identity Confused Chevzuki Swint Turbo GTi

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    An eighties 1 liter 3-cylinder hot-hatch on a set of genuine panasport wheels. For personal travel around San Francisco, can it get any better than this? I recently took a weekend trip to the SF bay with my wife, little brother, and little sister, and while they spent time seeing the touristy stuff like China…

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  • Corner Lot Classics, or The Morning I Decided to Take a Detour

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    You probably don’t know this, but I am a member of Toastmasters, serving as an officer in our corporate club. We meet once a week to give speeches, get feedback, and work to improve our public speaking ability. Yesterday, I heard a speech which made me really think: it was called “Stay RAD: Avoid Burnout”.…

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  • VISIT- Pick Your Pearl White Audi Poison

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    Last weekend, I was visiting the Monterey area for obvious reasons.  While walking the parking lot of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, I found this demure D2 generation Audi A8 in the most sultry shade that the automaker offered at the time.  Now, I may be biased because my own C4 chassis Audi S6, lovingly known…

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  • V.I.S.I.T. – Typical English Sports Car Edition

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    On my way to lunch on Tuesday, I spotted a bright turquoise-colored rear fender peeking out from a parking space. Could it be a Morgan 4/4, here on the streets of Florida? I got a little closer and found myself face to face with what looked like a baby Lotus 7 from the front and…

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  • Truck Thursday: V.I.S.I.T: Long Shots: Series One Land Rover

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    So the Miami Beach style bungalow this olelongrooffan calls home down here in the town that thinks its Lake is Worth something is about a fifteen minute drive from the dust factory I call my woodshed these days. While the ride is a tadbit shorter if I happen to utilize one of Eisenhower’s Highways to…

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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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  • V.I.S.I.T.: The Automotive Equivalent Of A Bald Head

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    Nuf said. Image Copyright Hooniverse 2013/longrooffan

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