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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: Rover 800 gives Sterling service
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“Relax, it’s a Rover”. That was the defunct British firm’s late ’90s advertising strapline, and I could never have credited it with being so prophetic. I mean, we all know that cars from the brand’s twilight era weren’t exactly geared towards exuberance at the wheel, so the the fact that the strapline could be interpreted…
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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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Project Car SOTU: Project McProjectfaceOr, an owner's review of the Mustang GT Performance Package 2
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This isn’t really a “project” car per se, but I did add something to my stable worth talking about. And I’ve been wanting to talk about it for nearly half a year now. After falling in love with the new Mustang GT I abused rented while out in California back in March, I was certain my…
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Project Car SOTU: Dr. Wankel's Legitimate Pharmacy Mazda RX-8
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After Dr. Wankel’s first Lemons race, at Barber Motorsports Park this past winter, most of our team convoyed through sub-zero temperatures up to Illinois—the race car’s new home. And there it sat, largely untouched in one teammate’s garage, for about 4 or 5 months. Meanwhile, our group of friends mostly spent our free time…
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Project Car SOTU: The Integra GS-R
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In October 2015 the Integra looked and ran perfectly. It was freshly detailed, which included wet-sanding and headlight clearing. The engine was serviced; new plugs, fuel filter, valve adjustment, cold-air intake with a new filter. It ran strong and it ran well. Then I parked it temporarily in my friend’s huge garage. And I haven’t…
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Project Car SOTU: 4Runner Project keeps running
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My 2010 Toyota 4Runner SR5 has been getting somewhat regular updates on Hooniverse. In recent times I installed Rigid Industries off-road lights, eBay LED interior lights, and provided a four-season update on my BFGoodrich KO2 tires. Other than routine maintenance and one annoying intermittent issue there’s not much to report. It currently has less than…
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Project Car SOTU: A Tale of Two Unicorns
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After many, many years of kinda looking, then serious looking, I had acquired my high school dream car. Then after a few months, I sold it. The problem? It wasn’t exactly my high school dream car. It was close – a horse with a horn duct-taped to its forehead – but not quite. But the…
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Project Bike SOTU 2017: Honda CL125S
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IT LIVES! Having just come back from a cruise through my neighborhood, I can report with some excitement that my ’74 Honda CL125S is officially back on the road. Regular readers will recall from past Project Car SOTU articles that I bought this bike in April of 2014 in an attempt to recapture the sensations…
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Project Bike SOTU: Bultakenstein
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“Bultakenstein”, for the uninitiated, is my ongoing attempt to learn all the skills required to build a custom motorcycle by actually doing all the steps myself, from scratch. And I do mean from scratch. When I started, I had a frame, wheels, a swingarm and a fuel tank, all salvage parts not just from different…
