Life and Cars
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P71–a Tune Up
This morning I took a trip over to Piedmont Custom Motorsports so that I could get the P71 on a dyno and have it tuned. The modifications that I’ve done were not a lot, but they were substantial in terms… Continue reading
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Red Bull–How it designs its winning F1 cars
Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel have become just about unbeatable this season as well as the past three. Next year is a year of big change in Formula One with 1.6 liter turbocharged engines being the new power plant. The… Continue reading
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Cars & Coffee in Cary, NC
Last weekend was a familiar sight to many in the Raleigh area as car owners started packing the parking lots in Cary at a shopping center known as Waverly Place. Cars were arriving as early as 7:30 and different areas… Continue reading
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Tuesday Night Car Show
It’s a summer tradition on Cape Cod – the Tuesday night get-together of car lovers by the Sham –Rods at the Bourne Technical School. People from all over the area start arriving about 4:00 pm and continue to arrive… Continue reading
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The Ultimate Barn Find
I saw this on Yahoo News and just had to make sure you knew about it: Vintage Chevy auction to deal in low-mileage gems Continue reading
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Those Things You find on the Side of the Road
In the miles and miles of driving around the US this summer here are some examples of what I found on the side of the road: Continue reading
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Ypsilanti’s Automotive Heritage Museum
Dare you to say that three times fast. The P71 prowled around the neighborhood in Michigan until we came to the intersection where this museum sits. What a great looking place it is, too. The inside has a really nice… Continue reading
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A Visit with Ford–Dearborn, MI
The P71 purred its way north to Dearborn. I was looking forward to this opportunity to meet with an engineer or two at the Ford Product Development Center. I have been to that neighborhood as an Autoweek Fantasy Camp member… Continue reading
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Dashcams
One of the items that I added to the P71 was a dashcam so that I would have a record of what other drivers were doing in front of me. fortunately nothing all that exciting occurred, but in Russia it… Continue reading
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Who’s Driving – Revisited
Back in 2010 I wrote about the emerging capability of hackers to get control of your car. well here is a video of just what could happen given current capabilities three years later. Sure the dash was torn apart and… Continue reading
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