Car Stuff

  • This is one Splinter you will Like

    Just off a country road and tucked into the woods north of Durham, North Carolina, the spirit of the deHavilland Mosquito has been rekindled.  This time it will be taking to the roads and not the skies.  Prior to the… Continue reading

  • Does Speed Kill?

    A better way to put this situation is that it’s not how fast you are going as much as how fast are you stopping.  The human body can only take so much deceleration before it ends up injured.  In an… Continue reading

  • The Evolving Story of the Evolution MR

      The Evolution is going through more changes.  True to its name it is evolving into a car that capitalizes upon its starting point and is becoming more of what it is.  So what is the Mitsubishi Evolution?  Its heart… Continue reading

  • NCSU Supercar – Wood You Believe

      A car is being designed and built by a group of NCSU (North Carolina State University) students lead by a 27 year old graduate student by the name of Joe Harmon.  But this is no ordinary car.  It is… Continue reading

  • In the Garage – an Evolution

      This time the project is my personal car.  It is a 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII MR.  It is a long moniker that I usually just shorten to Evo or MR. This is a car I truly have enjoyed.  The… Continue reading

  • Car Movies – Paris 1976 in a Ferrari

    Decades prior to Getaway in Stockhom Claude Lelouch put a camera on the nose of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a Formula 1 driver take it at high speed through the morning streets of Paris.  At times reaching 140… Continue reading

  • Honda Civic Project Car – part 2

      The Honda Civic spent another week in Jim’s Garage to get some miles subtracted. The owner had found that the front brakes were vibrating after some hard stops.  We had replaced the rear brakes, but the fronts were stock. … Continue reading

  • Road Trip – Los Angeles to New York in 4 minutes

    Makes me want to plan another road trip. There are a lot of places east of the Mississippi that I didn’t travel to last summer. Any suggestions folks? Continue reading

  • Farewell to Boyd Coddington

      Boyd Coddington died at the age of 63 Wednesday. Many of us watched the Discovery Channel’s show American Hot Rod as his dysfunctional crew produced fantastic vehicles that Boyd designed and always in less time than humanly possible. As… Continue reading

  • Building a Garage Video

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