Hemmings Motor News

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The Chief and I are at an impasse. After years of blissful marital negotiations over everything from what furniture we should buy (whatever she wants) to whether or not I should splurge on that new plasma cutter (she probably won’t notice it in the g

dune buggies and hot VWs

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This information is accurate as of December 7th, 2020. Please check the event organizers’ websites for the latest updates. Location: Lake Havasu City Organizer: London Bridge Bullis Description: Volkswagen Bus campout and show in beautifull Lak

Custom Car

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At first glance, the Harborough Sports, Classic and Vintage Meet might not appear to be of particular interest to hot rodders. However, the meet attracts an eclectic mix and, with the decimation of the events calendar by Covid 19, the ‘Harborough Mee

BBC Top Gear Magazine

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”Maaaate! I’m so sorry my man, I’ve scuffed up yer motor wiv my ring, innit,” says a jolly human, unpicking himself from the cumbersome wreckage of his Boris Bike as he holds aloft a bejewelled signet ring that would give the Star of Africa diamond p

Just Cars

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2021 19TH NATIONAL PACKARD RALLY Rally with 100 Packards anticipated. contact Robert Stone Rally Director for all information Website: www.packardclub.org.au 0408 249 240, rapidrob45@gmail.com KOORALBYN CAR SHOW DEC 2020 Food and Drink, trade stands,

Hemmings Motor News

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By Randall Lewis Self-published rlewis1957@cox.net $35 Scarab, the small-block-Chevy-powered Datsun Z-car-based sports car of the late ’70s, had a brief moment in the sun before onerous California regulators started breathing down creator/vision

Unique Cars Australia

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HAVE YOU joined a social media vehicle group lately? The choices on offer are staggering and, at last count, I think I’m a member of about 30. We’re talking Facebook groups here, or Faceplant as I often prefer to call it. The whole ‘social media’ con

Unique Cars Australia

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Owning the cool old cars of our youth – or the cars our mums and dads drove – is an ambition of many of us. There are also plenty of enthusiasts who associate particular cars with the happy years of their careers, too – such as retired policeman Terr

K-Zone

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Name: Sam Collects: Hot Wheels gear Wheel deal: Sam has collected multiple Hot Wheels tracks, a garage and 47 cars! Make some more room Sam, because we’re sending the Hot Wheels Criss Cross Crash Set to add to your collection! Collect something co

Unique Cars Australia

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YEARS AGO we were on Christmas holidays at a coastal fishing port. As we wandered around the shops, there was an MG TC in glorious British Racing Green. She had her pitted chrome trying to glisten in the sun, windscreen folded and the Brooklands scre

VW Camper & Bus

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Here’s a question for you. Which one thing invariably ends up costing you the most when restoring an old vehicle? Is it the paint? Rust repair maybe? Or what about a major mechanical overhaul? No, it’s none of the above (but at the same time it’s als

MOTOR Magazine Australia

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FIRST WEEK of an Australian summer, the perfect opportunity for a top-down foray into the countryside. Or so you’d think. Even putting aside Melbourne’s notoriously fickle weather, the fact that a number of Australian states are simultaneously under

Classic & Vintage Commercials

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As photographer Martyn and I arrived at Falconer Removals storage depot at Ammanford, I became slightly concerned. Outside, bright and gleaming in the mid-August sunlight, there stood an almost new MAN TGL complete with distinctive liveried-up pantec

CAR

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TIP #2 If favour you a niche car, do not pay too much or negotiate down the price. You might struggle to sell it later on. TIP #3 Look for signs of damage and carefully inspect the service history, especially on more expensive luxury cars. TIP #1

Land Rover Monthly

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THIS month’s column comes from Queensland. Somehow managing to evade the bush fires that are currently ravaging Australia we made our escape from the nation’s capital a little over a week ago. Leah and her brother took Bruce our Defender, whilst I to

Heritage Commercials

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A number of these complete units were sold after their launch in 1998, but some operators still specified their own preference for the type of skip loader equipment to be mounted onto the EP6 chassis. One such customer was Allen’s Waste Disposal Ltd,

Octane Magazine

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TO MISQUOTE AN old saying, ‘If it flies, floats or has flashing lights, rent it’. Point being that, if you wish to remain financially solvent, a boat, a plane or an old emergency services vehicle is something you don’t really want to own, just to exp

NZ Classic Car

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Paihia serves up great scenery and sparkly sunshine on blue water — ideal for top-down motoring and a large helping of seafood. The Bay of Islands Classic and Sports Car Club is far from the only outfit to organize a relaxed Sunday park-up event, but

Street Machine

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WE SPIED Leteisha Chun Tie as she was swapping her PARTY TIME VK Commodore’s alternator in the searing heat of the Skid Row line-up at Street Machine Summernats 33. The Far North Queenslander had scored a Burnout Masters invite to the event thanks to

Go: Drive & Camp

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Sutherland is famous not just for the four telescopes in the arsenal of the South African Astronomical Observatory, but also for being one of the coldest places in the country. The latter is exactly why Martin Briggs headed there in August. Apart fro

MG Enthusiast

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> Born into a family that cherished the Sacred Octagon, John has dedicated his life to British sports cars. Based in the USA, he owns and races examples from various marques, has written numerous books and articles and helped create the British Sport

VolksWorld

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Every VW fan has their own preferred type of car, or indeed, project. For some, it’s a perfectly restored (or even modified) car that is looking fine and is just begging to be driven. Others prefer the challenge of a project and seek out a rusty VW,

BBC Top Gear Magazine

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A few months back, this column proposed what was widely heralded* as a brilliant and foolproof way to nudge drivers out of their vast, inefficient SUVs (alright, the BMW X7) and into more modest transportation. Namely: repainting Waitrose parking spa

Yachts International

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“I have been called a Renaissance man,” Klaus Bytzek says. “It is not something I call myself. Perhaps that is just something people say when someone is involved in a wide variety of things.” Yachting is one of Bytzek’s many interests, along with hav

Adventure Afrika

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Fifty years ago a holiday at the Kruger National Park meant months of preparation. The seasoned Kruger man serviced his Volkswagen Kombi. His wife ironed the obligatory Big 5 tablecloth she had purchased on a previous trip to the Skukuza camp shop. T

BBC Top Gear Magazine

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REPORT 2 £34,720 OTR/£38,445 as tested /£409pcm WHY IT’S HERE BMW’s brilliant but forgotten EV now thinks it’s a hot hatch DRIVER Paul Horrell THE I3 WAS FIRST CONCEIVED AT BMW IN 2008/09, AND IT WAS known as the ‘megacity vehicle’. It wasn’t going t

Fast Ford

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QUICK SPEC Mountune m400R • Velgen Classic5 alloys • Goodyear Eagle F1 tyres • H&R lowering springs • 3M wrap by VWC in Leeds • Mountune axle-back and sports cat • H&R anti-roll bars • Tarox brakes • Mishimoto intercooler, intake kit, and oil cooler

4x4 Magazine Australia

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1162409 KM DATE ACQUIRED: FEB 2017 PRICE (AS TESTED): $7400 KM THIS MONTH: 600KM AV FUEL: 11.3L/100KM MY name is Evan Spence, and I’m the new bloke at 4X4 Australia. I’ve owned, at a guess, 30 4WDs over the years, but I think I’ve nailed it with my c

VWt

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The side cupboard for the Uberwagon conversions took 15 attempts to get right; so that’s 14 prototypes that never made it into customer’s vehicles. While a lot of companies are content to develop their products by learning from their mistakes on succ

Auto Express Magazine

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DRIVING any supercar, and especially one of the latest uber-fast, uber-efficient examples, is mostly an exercise in self-restraint nowadays, certainly when it comes to driving them well on the public road. Yet so long as you’re sensible with your att