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Because it's Monday: Let's Enjoy a Time Lapse Hemi Rebuild
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Chrysler did not invent the hemispherical combustion chamber, but they did do more than any other company to promote it—to actually make the Hemi a thing. The use of a hemispherical, or domed combustion chamber, goes way back, to even before the inception of Chrysler. Its benefits were exploited on Fiat Grand Prix racers, Stutz sports cars…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Watch a Vintage Ford Training Film With Music by… THE DOORS!
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Jim Morrison was never a car guy. In fact, a famous story that we discussed a while back demonstrated that he really didn’t give a rat’s ass about cars or driving. Morrison’s notorious abandoned Mustang isn’t the group’s only FoMoCo connection however, as prior to making it big they made some fast cash adding incidental music…
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Because it's Monday: Let's See What it Once Took to be a Car Hop
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Bob’s Big Boy was once an institution in Southern California. Founded by Bob Wian in 1936, the chain’s eponymous three-bun hamburger proved to be a hit for both sit-down dining as well as in-car service served by a bevy of carhops. Those were so named because they would hop from car to car like hotel…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Watch a Flatty Get Spiffed Up
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Ford’s V8 may not have been the automotive epiphany that the Model T represented, but by bringing an affordable V8 powerplant to the masses it served nearly the same market. Its stoutness, simplicity and expandability also gave rise to a generation of hot rodders and a cottage industry of go-faster parts for Ford’s “Flatty.” That was…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Watch a Lamborghini Countach Get It On and Take It Off
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What a wonderful world it would be if our dreams could leap from the posters from our teenage bedroom walls and into our lives. For me that would mean Linda Ronstadt and the subject of today’s making-Monday-great-again video, the Lamborghini Countach. If I had known then how much of a pain in the ass the Countach…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Watch This Wonderful Strut Changing Video
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Do you remember the bit in the first of the Tim Burton Batman movies when Jack Nicholson’s Joker expressed his envy for Batman’s kit, musing “Where does he get those wonderful toys?” I’m just as covetous of the tools in this instructional video, especially the way-cool industrial grade spring compressor the tech is using. The…
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Because it's Monday: Here's Something to Rave About
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Do you feel like dancing? I said, DO YOU FEEL LIKE DANCING? No? Well then, it must not be the feeling. That’s okay though because you can still enjoy the Pantera in this music video from the UK Electronica band Nero. It Must Be The Feeling comes off of their 2012 debut album and sets…
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Because it's Monday: Here's a Buick Riviera to Cheer You Up
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I think it’s pretty indisputable that the original Buick Riviera is one of the world’s most beautiful cars, and quite possibly the most handsome ride America has ever produced. Its allure reaches across different groups of car nuts, from those who appreciate classic American iron for its original role exemplifying American extravagance to Lowriders who…
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Because it's Monday: Here's an Iso Lele Because You've Probably Never Really Seen One
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via GIPHY It’s a pretty big deal to name something important after your spouse. After all, while we avow to until death do we part, sometimes the actual parting comes much earlier, and then with a lot of acrimony. Matrimony to acrimony. In 1969 however, Piero Rivolta did just that, naming the new Iso…
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Because it's Monday: Here's Porsche's Glorious 930 Turbo
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via GIPHY Many cars require some level of talent to drive near or at their limits, but few will actually try to kill you should those limits exceed that talent. Dodge’s Viper is one that will, as is the subject of this short film, Porsche’s ass-full-of-mass the 930 Turbo. Still, we’re all kicking and…
