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  • Just a Couple Quickies From The Brit Show A Whiles Back

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    So a whiles back this olelongrooffan attended a nearly all-Brit car show up in Burt Reynold’s hometown. I captured a bunch of images at that show and am still trying to filter through them. As happens often to this old man, I have forgotten what 1/2 the stuff I had seen really is. Any of…

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  • Weekend Edition: A Drive By at Blue Marlin Motors

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    Welcome to the final installment of the random carp this olelongrooffan has seen over the past coupla weeks down here in the greater Palm Beach, Florida area. As I was heading south on US1 just a tad bit north of TheStuccoBox last weekend, I spotted that red and white Tri-5 BelAir hardtop in the above…

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  • Weekend Edition: A Quick Look at DV8 Motorsports

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    A little bit earlier this week while this olelongrooffan was out and about chasing down a Nash Metropolitan, I spotted this huge lifted F-Series truck and immediately knew I would be back to check this shop out. This place is called DV8 Motorsports and it is located right here in good ole Palm Beach, Florida.…

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  • Weekend Edition: The Miss Geico Motorboat Edition

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    It’s time now for Day 2 of some of the random carp this olelongrooffan has recently spotted around these here Palm Beach, Florida parts. Last week I was down at the big box that loves Jimmie Johnson so much picking up some bathroom paint (did I tell ya how much I hate to paint?) and…

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  • Weekend Edition: Last Call: The Out Of This World Twins Edition

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    Now this olelongrooffan admits there are a couple of vehicles of which I would like to own in tandem but know this my fellow Hoons, gold Saturns, especially not longroofs, are nowhere to be seen on that list.

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  • Weekend Edition: The Rusty FJ40 Edition

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    So as this olelongrooffan mentioned in that Modern Art Monday post about a Cadillac restomod I saw, I spent last Saturday driving to Daytona Beach to watch thejeepjunkie and a bunch of black and tan car driving dudes extract the Kid’s black Ranger out of a roadside swale. On the way home, I got off…

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  • Weekend Edition: The First Gen C-Series Bowtie

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    Continuing on with some random carp seen by this olelongrooffan while out and about around these here Palm Beach, Florida parts, I offer up this early 1960’s Chevrolet C-10 pickemup truck. This is either a ’60 or a ’61 although I am leaning toward the latter version of it. Bright Red and ready for the…

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  • Weekend Edition: This Place Is Totally Metropolitan

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    So apparently this weekend Hooniverse’s favorite Finn is off to Helsinki for the weekend to catch some World Championship Ice Hockey games, UDMan is still playing hookey and who knows where ThePeteMan is so my fellow Hoons are stuck with this olelongrooffan’s carp for the weekend. As I am not quite creative enough to let…

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  • V.I.S.I.T. Sometimes The Ragtop Decision Is A Difficult One

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    So a couple weeks ago this olelongrooffan was down and around the Palm Beach International Airport after leaving the Barrett-Jackson festivities in the area. I spotted these two ragtops exiting the private hangar area of that airport and realized it would be a real challenge to decide which one of these to take out into…

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  • Modern Art Monday: 1956 Cadillac Coupe "Resto-Mod"

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    So last weekend, this olelongrooffan was up in the World Center of Racing to attend the SCCA Spring Track Days with my younger brother, thejeepjunkie. As this was his first time to attend a track days weekend (yeah, I know) he was rather excited about it. Me? Other than the fact I would be attending…

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