Life and Cars
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Road Tripping to MN
I got up at six in the morning and cleaned myself up so that I could get the free continental breakfast the hotel offers. It was okay. By seven I was off. Heading down the highway to Iowa and then… Continue reading
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Road Tripping
Today I headed off on a personal road trip. I will drive for two days so that I can spend Mothers Day weekend with my parents. They live in southwestern Minnesota and I just hope that the snow has… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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