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  • What is this sorcery? Pontiac Sunbird Turbo!

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    When I saw a 1991 Pontiac J-Body on Craigslist with an asking price of $4500, I had to take a closer look to determine the level of crazy involved. It’s weird enough to see a Michigan-plated car listed for sale in Florida without acres and acres of rust, but what caught my eye was the bright red underhood photos…

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  • Jim's Proto-SUV could be yours if you can get home from Nebraska

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    If you ever wanted a reason to visit Lincoln, Nebraska other than the SCCA Solo Nationals and their plethora of pylon puns, a nondescript used-car lot has a Chevy-powered Willys Overland 4×4 Sport Wagon for you. One of their long-time employees, Jim, apparently has quite a collection of cars and they’re helping him sell them…

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  • Project Car SOTU 2016: Justy Little Project Creep

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    Making a car look good is hard work. The details make all the difference, and with a project as huge as an engine rebuild, there are a lot of details to tidy up. Little performance improvement options also encourage project creep, especially if they’re cheap on the surface—or worse, if they’ll take Justy little extra time.

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  • How to Drive the Tail of the Dragon and Have a Badass Camping Trip

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    Unless you’re local to them, the “roads you must drive before you die” regularly featured in listicles don’t often actually merit the expense of a road trip. It’s just not practical to spend a day traveling to some remote road that takes 20 minutes to drive through when you can just pay a couple hundred bucks…

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  • Justy Little Project Car: 10 Percent of the World's Supply

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    When you order OEM car parts from some of these third-party resellers, they’ll ask for a VIN so they can confirm that you’re ordering the right part. After I placed my order, I received an email that said this: “There is an issue with the VIN # you provided. If this is a US market…

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  • Justy Little Project Car: The joy of a good machine shop, and a rogue Nissan Axxess

    Justy Little Project Car: The joy of a good machine shop, and a rogue Nissan Axxess

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    I don’t understand it. Even though I live near the birthplace of speed and some kind of important race track, engine machine shops are hard to come by. I drove 40 minutes one way to the machine shop when I rebuilt my WRX’s engine, and they even had to send the crankshaft out to another shop to get…

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  • Lemons at Barber Live Blog

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    I’m parked next to what I think is a peanut field alongside U.S. Route 82 in rural Georgia, cutting through the state along slightly more entertaining roads than the wonderful but dull interstate highway system. I stopped here to put together this short update before the day is up, because this weekend, Barber Motorsports Park…

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  • Lemons at Barber Live Blog

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    I’m parked next to what I think is a peanut field alongside U.S. Route 82 in rural Georgia, cutting through the state along slightly more entertaining roads than the wonderful but dull interstate highway system. I stopped here to put together this short update before the day is up, because this weekend, Barber Motorsports Park…

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  • Justy Little Project Car: The joy of a good machine shop, and a rogue Nissan Axxess

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    I don’t understand it. Even though I live near the birthplace of speed and some kind of important race track, engine machine shops are hard to come by. I drove 40 minutes one way to the machine shop when I rebuilt my WRX’s engine, and they even had to send the crankshaft out to another shop to get…

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  • Marine With One Leg Leads in Continental Tire Series, Supported by a Whole Mess o' Veterans

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    Photo courtesy Mazdaspeed/Al Merion Padron. Half of Liam Dwyer’s clutch leg is gone. His right knee has been replaced. A steel plate, a rod, and 23 screws hold his right forearm together. He endured more than 50 surgeries over four and a half years. Dwyer is a retired United States Marine. A Taliban IED hit…

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