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  • Breaking Benz: It's not always a wrenching win

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    Wrenchin’ ain’t easy. At least not for me. I find some victories but there’s certainly plenty of defeat as well. And today I’m sharing full-on lameness. I decided to replace the rheostat located on the back of the gauge cluster of my 1974 Mercedes-Benz 280 sedan. This did not go as planned. The W114 Benz…

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  • Shift Happens: We let Josh borrow a Toyota 4Runner TRD Proand he hurt himself

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    Occasional Hooniverse camera person and camera car driver Josh Ostrander thinks he’s rad. To prove that he’s not rad, we let him borrow a Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro. He used it to check out his local mountain bike trails. He quickly proved that he’s definitely not rad. The 4Runner TRD Pro, however, is fairly rad.…

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  • Shift Happens: A Kia Stinger GT AWD in the slush

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    I’ve already driven the new 2018 Kia Stinger GT. That was on California roads, under the sun, in perfect conditions. Heading back east for the holidays, I wanted to see if I could spend a bit more time with the car and experience the AWD version in the cold. You might expect that I’d do…

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  • Can I fix the headlight switch on my W114 Mercedes-Benz?

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    Short answer: yes I can… this isn’t clickbait, broski and bro-ette-ski. In the last Shift Happens, I left off attempting to get my 1974 Mercedes-Benz 280 sedan sorted. The W114 four-door suffered a crapped out headlight switch (technical term) and it needed replacing. In the process of removing it, I found it was quite necessary to…

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  • An update on my 1974 W114 Mercedes-Benz 280

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    The new car stuff has been fun lately, but now it’s time for a brief update on my old Benz. This is my 1974 W114 Mercedes-Benz 280 sedan that serves as my daily driver. It’s in decent shape for a car that’s 43 years old. Still, it has some issues that need to be worked…

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  • Shift Happens: Quick peek at a 1967 Chevelle we're going to review

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    Old cars are better. We know this and you know this, and that’s why we want to feature more old or interesting cars on our YouTube channel whenever possible. We’re still going to cover new car stuff as well, but it’s the older metal that really gets us going. Case in point: this 1967 Chevrolet…

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  • Shift Happens: Building a McLaren 720S …LEGO car

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    Awhile back, the good folks at McLaren sent me a LEGO kit. It’s part of the LEGO Speed Champions series, and this one features the new McLaren 720S. It also has a designer. He’s got his drafting table, a model car, a cup of coffee, and a lamp. He’s also got a helmet, because he…

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  • Some quick tunnel blasts in the Jaguar F-Type R convertible

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    Shift Happens. When you’re at an event packed with plenty of cars and trucks, and it happens to be located near some of California’s great roads, which vehicle do you walk towards first? For me, it was towards the keys of a Jaguar F-Type R convertible… because I know that a pair of tunnels sit…

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  • Shift Happens: Off-Roading the Chevy Colorado ZR2

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    Shift Happens… I ventured up to a Motor Press Guild event and ran into our old pal Jason Connor. While there, he and I hopped into the new Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 and took it around the Calmigos Ranch Trails. This is a Shift Happens because it’s not a standard video or a regular review. It’s…

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  • Shift Happens: Benz drop off and a story about an R34 Skyline

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    We’ve renamed the series Shift Happens, because it’s just better. Credit goes to Josh Ostrander for that one. In this episode, I take the W114 Benz to a shop to have it given a proper look over. This is something I should’ve done before I bought it… but I have no patience, and I’m dumb.…

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