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From the monthly archives:

September 2007

Carnival of Wheels: Edition #39

September 30, 2007

Sometimes, work in the real life version slows things down in The Garage. Over the past week, we’ve been dealing with month end, year end inventories and the like which means I haven’t had an awful lot of time to keep up on all the happenings in the blogosphere. That’s one of the nice things [...]

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Time passes so quickly

September 29, 2007

Motor Trend’s C. Van Tune and long time friend wrote me today with his feelings and press release about the passing of another one of the great automotive legends, Wally Parks. Before he passed away I was also blessed to call “Terrible Ted” Gotelli my good friend who was also one of Wally Parks good [...]

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Track test: Nissan Sentra SER Spec-V

September 29, 2007

The previous generation Sentra SER Spec-V was a bit of an odd little beast. Stiffly sprung and with bags of horsepower through the front wheels, it was a torque steering nightmare. The fit and finish inside and out was haphazard at best. Overall, it felt like some tuner had gone wild adding performance bits to [...]

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Video: An honest mechanic

September 28, 2007

While I sit here mired in year end inventory preparations, let’s take a few moments out for a bit of a laugh courtesy of the folks at Atom Films.
Did you ever wish you could say exactly what’s on your mind? Me too!

AtomFilms.com: Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | Comedy Central

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New York Times puts 5 grand up for grabs for your collectible car photos

September 27, 2007

One of the side effects of blogging is my growing obsession with photography. Whether this is a positive or negative side effect is up for debate within the family, but I have managed to get a bunch of great car shots over the past 6 months.
Fellow Canadian car blogger Phillip Powell is a regular [...]

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Canadians launch price fixing lawsuit against car manufacturers

September 27, 2007

A soaring Canadian dollar and ongoing news of price disparity between cars sold in Canada and the United States has prompted 4 new car buyers to take matters to court.
Four Toronto residents, who’ve all bought new cars at Canadian prices recently, have enlisted the help of law firm Juroviesky & Ricci to launch a [...]

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Road test: 2008 Ford Escape Hybrid Part 1

September 26, 2007

Part of the fun of writing about publishing The Garage is that I get to refuel all that automotive passion from driving all sorts of exciting cars. It really is all about the passion, so what the heck are we doing in a Hybrid? After all, Hybrid vehicles aren’t exactly known for their stirring performance. [...]

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Lock the doors and roll up the windows

September 25, 2007

Like everyone else I really enjoy reminiscing old memories especially bench racing with friends about some of those times where all didn’t go as planned.
One such time was back in the late 70’s when I was an active member of the U.S. Olympic International Skeet shooting team. While hosting a weekend international competition at our [...]

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Video: In car at Infineon with Gary Faules

September 25, 2007

Hot on the heels of this morning’s videos of our west coast contributor, Gary Faules’ GT-350 lapping at Infineon Raceway, now we have some killer in car footage of the break in. Perhaps more important, Gary’s co-driver, Jon Emerson is finally allowed to spill the beans on the team’s big news.
I’m sure Gary will [...]

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Video: Lucky hits the track

September 25, 2007

Finally, after all these months, Gary Faules’ GT-350 clone, Lucky, has some laps under his belt. Last weekend, Team California’s Best took Lucky to Sears Point (ok, so it’s called Infineon now but this is a GT-350) for his first shakedown. Fortunately for us, they’ve got some rough video of the car on track for [...]

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