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I bought my 1974 914 1.8 Porsche 2 years ago from a rich orthodontist in Indiana, who had 15 cars and was going to sell a few before he moved back to California. The car had 57,000 miles on it and looked great. He told me the engine was rebuilt. He lied. After two hack […]
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Whenever I’m on the road, I keep an eye out for interesting cars, trucks, and motorcycles. Ya never know when or where you’ll find stuff, but sometimes a town has an aura about it. Roll down a window and you might smell a mix of gas and oil in the air, mingled with a whiff
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It was my usual drive from South Lyon to Ypsilanti for my night shift at the senior home, 11:30pm to 7:30am. I drove down Le Forge Road, passing the old silo on my left. It had always caught my eye, and I admired it’s stately but lonely appearance. It had a gruesome past, but today
“It’s a beautiful day. I can’t wait to get out and let the sun and wind caress my glossy body.” “Oh God! You are the most conceited piece of scrap metal I’ve ever heard. How old are you anyways? Pushing 40?” “BS! You haven’t been out in days… and you didn’t even clean up when
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I needed a new car, a different car. My long love affair with my sleek, silver bullet, my 2012 Honda Insight has ended. 10 years. I have great memories of driving the Silver Bullet. My sister and I drove across Canada to Maine to eat lobster and crab. Maine was so scenic and our little
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I picked up my 1957 Thunderbird back in 1966 when it was just a used Ford. I’ve become quite attached to it. We’ve been together through cross-country road trips, one restoration, 3 colleges, 5 careers, marriage, kids, grandkids and a recent second restoration. My two young grandsons are fighting over which one gets the car.
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It was my first year of teaching in Ann Arbor, in 1988. I taught an electronics class for a year, and “Know Your Auto” for a semester. It was a given that if any of the old school staff wanted their car serviced, oil changed, etc., I was the new shade tree mechanic. So, I
In 1974, when I was in high school, my first car was a metallic blue 1967 Ford Fairlane GT, with a black vinal top. It was an automatic transmission with a 390 cubic inch engine. It could burn rubber from a standstill. It had so much power! In fact, it had too much power. The
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