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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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Remembering a legend: Don Panoz
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A motorsports icon and brilliant entrepreneur has passed away at the age of 83. Don Panoz was a lifelong gearhead. Known for creating the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), Petit Le Mans, and helping building a lineup of wild street and track cars bearing his and his son’s last name.
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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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We went Wide Open in Baja
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I know I will never race a car in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. There’s a near-zero chance I’ll compete on some grand motorsport stage. Over the course of two days down in Baja, Mexico, however, I lived out my wannabe-racer fantasies. With Wide Open Baja, I blasted a buggy around, up, through, and…
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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…
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Project Bike SOTU: Honda CL125S
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I got stranded. Less than a week after this Honda CL125S’s SOTU post last year, the bike developed a high-RPM miss on my commute in to work. It was worse when I took the bike to lunch. It wouldn’t start at all after work. I kicked it and bump-started it with hardly a pop. I…
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Project Car SOTU: The Red Camaro
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I was reflecting and somewhat laughing at how the status of my red 2001 Chevrolet Camaro has changed since I drove it home twelve years ago. My (now) project car happens to also be my very first car that I still have and more importantly, love. The big red bow tie came into my life…
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On the Track with Dodge's new Challenger R/T Scat Pack Widebody
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Out of Detroit’s three, the Challenger has always been the king at the drag strip, a king that rules with such a big crown the NHRA ended up casting down a ban on the late Demon variant. But can the big Dodge control itself at speed when the wheel isn’t pointed straight? Yes, oh gosh…
