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We Bought A James May Spec Evo VIII!​

A new DriveTribe project car is born! The James May spec Mitsubishi Evo VIII FQ-300! After Martin the Subaru from the Grand Tour took the channel by storm last year, we've decided to bring a fellow super saloon legend to the channel to take on the might WRX STI. Let Mike Fernie introduce you to our new project car.

 

An Entertaining Conversation With Some Ferrari Owners At A Car Show​

Apr 15, 2024
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This one is a podcast. Can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab. Title is self-explanatory. Most shops are honest. It's the scum bags that give mechanics a bad name.

Car Talk Episode 3, Shady Shops​

Apr 16, 2024
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Dirt Cheap Single Turbo Cat C13, Deal or Nightmare?​

Apr 27, 2024

In this video we are working on a couple of different Cat Diesel Engines out in North Idaho

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U.S. Navy Veteran Tractor! A Yellow 1955 Allis Chalmers WD 45, Outfitted with Magnetic Power!​

Apr 22, 2024
You might say this tractor is especially attractive because it's outfitted with magnetic power to pick up stray pieces of metal that might be on a Navy runway. This one is owned by Tom Wilcox and we caught up with him at the big Franklin County Antique Machinery Show in Indiana just a few years ago. Watch this Allis Chalmers WD-45 Magna-Sweep work!

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This Classic Tractor Stands EXTRA Tall! It's An Unstyled 1938 John Deere B, On Stilts!​

Apr 26, 2024
A few years back we captured the story of an unusual John Deere B that stood above the crowd at the Aumann Vintage Power Fall Harvest Auction. Alex Fuselier from the Aumann team shares the story of this modified John Deere tractor on STILTS!

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Big Bad Brougham Mobile: The Lincoln Continental Mark III​

Apr 19, 2024

A classic car connaisseur talks about the car that saved Lincoln. After decades of struggling and getting beat up by Cadillac, Lincoln decided enough is enough. They struck back with the 1969 Continental Mark III, a luxurious personal luxury car that changed the American car industry once and for all. Suddenly, 60s straightline modernist design was out, and 70s retro brougham styling was in!

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THE ORIGINAL SUV | 1963-1991 Jeep Grand Wagoneer | Comfy, Cushy, Capable!​

Mar 12, 2024
The thought of a do-it-all offroad rig usually falls short when it comes to combining capability and luxury with room for six. The one vehicle that did it from 1963 to 1991 is the subject of this episode of Hemmings Tested 4x4; the Jeep Grand Wagoneer.

Built during its lifetime by four different manufacturers, the Grand Cherokee stayed true to capability for its entire run with solid axles front and rear and offered uncommon luxury and passenger space. While it was originally marketed as a station wagon, the Grand Wagoneer replaced the Willys wagon and became the longest-running vehicle of its era.

So whether you are building a capable off-roader, a luxury throwback to drive to Cars & Coffee, or an overlanding adventure vehicle, the Grand Wagoneer checks all of those boxes with retro styling.

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It's entertaining to find all these people, most who hadn't even been born when it was discontinued...who just luuuv them some Wagoneer.

Because many of them were/are clueless about the history of that thing. Starting with how they insist on calling it the SJ type.

I don't know if AMC or Chrysler started using that; but back in the day, Willys designated the body style the J-Series. I know this, because my old man had a 1968 - and a shop manual for it, that he needed quite a bit.

It was not, repeat NOT a luxury car (the term "SUV" hadn't been coined yet). Ours had a painted metal dashboard and rubber full-fit mats on the floor, not carpet.

It was noisy. It was rough-riding. It had no social status whatsoever. It was made by an independent maker without a fixed identity (brought to market by "Willys Motors" which a year later became "Kaiser Jeep").

It was seen as a collection of parts, not all of which seemed to work properly. The original overhead-cam six that Willys designed in-house, was a failure - mostly because of lack of resources to work out design issues. Willys, becoming Kaiser, gave up hope of running their own engine program and began buying Rambler sixes and V8s.

The AMC V8 of that time, and actually for all time...it/they were slugs. The last major change Kaiser did, was engineer in a Buick 350 V8. An unmitigated improvement (ours was so equipped) but that only lasted two years. AMC was buying the company...Henry Kaiser, of the Hoover Dam, Liberty Ships, and Kaiser-Frazer, had died in 1967 with little estate planning. All the Kaiser properties had to be sold to pay Estate Tax.

Then AMC took control, and for ten years, every change was negative. Thinner steel. AMC's sorry set of engines (the six, durable, had not yet been redesigned into the Jeep powerhouse of the future). Trying to sell more, AMC rebranded the Wagoneer as a "luxury" wagon. Jeep old-timers snorted; but somehow it worked.

It was a chaotic time, a chaotic run of a basically well-designed product that was offered by a succession of makers without clear vision for the product.
 

The Antarctic VWs​

The Antarctic VWs

By Phil Matthews Originally part of my book Knowing Australian Volkswagens (Bookworks, 1993), now much expanded and rewritten.
www.clubvw.org.au

Volkswagen Beetle at Mawson Station Antarctica (1963)​

 

Army truck to tiny home overlander (the inside is gorgeous)!​

Mike has spent years traveling the world in custom overlander rvs, and he has perfected the art of converting vehicles to tiny homes. This is his 3rd overlander tiny house, and it happens to be a retired military truck that he's modified into a modern and surprisingly spacious home on wheels.

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MORE ON MIKE: / drivetheglobe https://www.drivetheglobe.com/

MORE OVERLANDING RIGS & MILITARY TRUCK TOURS: • Overlanding Rigs
 

10 Things Vespa Owners Adore About Their Scooters​

If you were to ask fellow motorcycle enthusiasts to name a particular motorcycle brand when discussing a particular segment, you would most likely get a range of answers. With all the new motorcycle models that are released every year, this is understandable. Whenever people talk about the best sport bikes, some would say Yamaha, others Kawasaki, and when people talk about adventure bikes, some would say BMW, while others would argue KTM is better. These days, it's difficult to choose one brand over another due to their fierce competition.

However, when it comes to scooters, things are very different. Vespa will always be the first name to come up, and it's not even that surprising, because they have one of the most iconic motorcycle designs in history.

The information in this article was sourced from Vespa's official website.

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Building an ARMORED CAR From a V10 Diesel VW Touareg (and then TESTING it!)​

We built an armored car out of a V10 diesel Volkswagen Touareg, brought it through a Dunkin' Donuts drive-thru, and then tested it ballistically. Built with @_Gingium_ , @VasilyBuilds , and @Vtuned .

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Useless.

Even a true APC or half-track would be useless without a support base and maintenance team, and a unit to protect it.

It can be a critical part of a military evolution. Alone it is worthless. If you're in a hot zone...you ain't gonna be out riding around.
 

The Motor Underground: Chinatown Confidential | Episode 1​

May 16, 2024 #hotrod #vintage #classic

Dan Stoner, Hemmings Creative Director, and underground car culture digger, has been hearing a rumor about a mysterious ’56 Chevy gasser called “The Underdog” that ran the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco for as long as he’s lived in the city. But nobody knew where it was or had ever seen the car in person.

So, it was time to put the legend to the test. Was it a real car? Were Chinese kids the first to run gassers on the street 50 years ago? And what was the fate of the Underdog? To answer all these questions, he first must go Underground to understand the most mysterious neighborhood on the West Coast: CHINATOWN…

Hemmings is the ultimate destination for finding your perfect ride. Head to Hemmings.com and register to start your search today.

This Motor Underground series – Chinatown Confidential – is the first of four episodes in this series.

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- Hemmings Content on Gassers GASSER COLLECTION https://www.hemmings.com/stories/tag/...
- RETURN OF THE GASSER https://www.hemmings.com/stories/arti...
- It Has the Nose-High Stance of a Gasser, but This 1951 Chevrolet Also Has Plenty of Rat Rod DNA https://www.hemmings.com/stories/hfod...
 

Not Half Bad! A Case Model 60 Steam Engine, Half-Scale Version Built by a Wisconsin Collector!​

May 10, 2024 #cultivating #tractorvideo #tractor

You see some amazing vintage power at farm tractor shows around the country. In Indiana we visited with Calvin Niehoff from Ohio, who has a half-scale Case Model 60 steam engine, built by a collector in Wisconsin back in the 1960s. Amazing talent to put something like this together!

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10 Gimmicks You Find On Classic Cars at Car Shows​

May 17, 2024

A classic car connaisseur notices that you find a lot of aftermarket gimmicks that are put on classic cars at car shows. Like curb feelers, the fuzzy dice, antenna balls and creepy dolls. What's up with that? Let's find out!

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Ineos Quartermaster pickup truck | In-depth review | Autocar​

May 18, 2024

This is the Ineos Grenadier Quartermaster, the new pickup based on the Grenadier 4x4.
Join Matt Prior as he walks and talks you through the new, even more practical off-roader.
Tech specs are below, more is over at autocar.co.uk and the entire 129-year Autocar archive is at themagazineshop.com/autocar

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Don't know if the link will work, but we had a local "plow day" here. That is where a bunch of old duffers like myself get together with old and antique tractors and plows and plow someone's field. Plowing has become pretty rare, but is still a legitimate option at times. This gives guys a chance to use their old equipment the way it was meant to be used, and the landowner gets a difficult job done. So I got to enjoy a John Deere two cylinder "Johnny Popper" symphony and the fine aroma of freshly turned dirt yesterday.

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Here's Episode 2

The Motor Underground: Chinatown Confidential | Street Gassers: Built, Not Bought​

May 23, 2024 #hotrod #vintage #hemmings

Eating, drinking, and walking through the streets of the oldest Chinatown in America starts to pay off in Stoner’s quest to find the mysterious “Underdog” ’56 Chevy Gasser: word starts to spread that he’s poking around and the American Born Chinese who built, raced, and lived their lives in straight-axle Gassers come out of the shadows to reveal their stories.

He also finds the hotrodder whose shop put the axles under these cars and gets a nuts-n-bolts lesson on how a gasser was built for the street when everything was built, not bought.

Hemmings is the ultimate destination for finding your perfect ride. Head to Hemmings.com and register to start your search today.

This Motor Underground series – Chinatown Confidential – is the second of four episodes in this series.

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Episode 3

The Motor Underground: Chinatown Confidential | Episode 3 | Secrets & Lost Innocence​

May 30, 2024 #hemmings #classiccars #chinatown

In his search for a wicked gasser that ran the streets of Chinatown half a century ago, Stoner uncovers a story made for Hollywood: street gangs, secretive Chinese tongs, high school kids building choppers, and a network of city gas stations where Chinese kids built some of the first street-driven gassers ever seen. But it all came to a screeching halt when a mafia-stye shooting took place at a beloved Chinatown restaurant in 1977. And just as he was about to give up the search for the Underdog, Stoner is stopped dead in his tracks when a mysterious email shows up in his inbox…

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Classic Tractor Collector Strikes Gold with a 1959 Ford 881 Select O Speed Demonstrator!​

May 31, 2024 #classictractor #tractor #classictractorfever

In a visit to the Franklin County Antique Machinery Show, we talked with Vern Konradi of Ohio, who has restored a beautiful 1959 Ford 881 - a Golden Demonstrator meant to promote Ford's then-new Select-O-Speed transmission. If you like classic Ford tractors, this story is for you!

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Strange, Weird and Obscure Car Meet ROUND 2​

May 31, 2024

A classic car connaisseur went to a car meet specifically for weird, strange and obscure cars. Limited editions, low production cars or simply the social outcasts of the automotive landscape! We look at some Top Gear Cadillacs, Ute Maloo's, battle of Hyundai's, and I let automotive judges criticize my car!

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Episode 4

The Motor Underground: Chinatown Confidential | Episode 4 | The Underdog​

Jun 6, 2024 #hotrod #vintage #classic

Finally, all Stoner’s hard work pays off: as he remembers Dave Tanimura, the friend he lost who kept the legend of the Underdog alive with the build of his own woolly tribute gasser.
Dan also finds Daniel Louie, the guy who unknowingly created the legend more than 50 years ago.
For the very first time, Stoner hears the true story of the Underdog and checks a box off the bucket list by putting the owner of the original Underdog in the driver’s seat of its tribute car.
Does the mysterious ’56 Chevy ever reveal itself? Is the search over?
Through it all, one truth is discovered: Chinatown is the story of the American Dream…
This Motor Underground series – Chinatown Confidential – is the fourth of four episodes in this series.

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A Pennsylvania Panzer Like None Other! A Turquoise Tractor Decked Out With Stainless Steel!​

Jun 3, 2024 #cultivating #tractorvideo #tractor

The Pennsylvania Panzer 1110 was built in Waynesboro, Virginia from 1964 to 1969. Glen Baltzer of Orient, Ohio shares the story of his turquoise garden tractor that's outfitted with a front blade. And, Glen dressed his Panzer up with some stainless steel on the hood. The tractor is powered by a 1-cylinder, 10 horsepower Tecumseh engine.

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Interesting.

I never heard of that model or maker. The slip-belt drive system was common on Montgomery Ward and lower-priced Sears branded lawn tractors; and a Tecumseh engine was probably used because it was cheaper than a Briggs engine, or, in that size, a Kohler or Onan engine.

...but that rear end. That's not a Plymouth rear end - that huge gear housing and cast (not pressed-in) axle tubes, is out of a medium-duty (2-1/2 ton capacity) truck. I don't think Chrysler made axles that size - typically on a larger truck model, they'd buy from Dana or another parts manufacturer. Production of trucks that size was typically very small numbers - it didn't pay for manufacturers to make parts they couldn't share with pickups or cars.

I'm glad he's proud of it. I don't know what to make of it...so cheap in some ways, so overbuilt in others.

The forward-angled hood of those things, really interfered with the operator's ability to see the work.
 

World's LARGEST Tractor Returns to the Fields ▶ BIG BUD 16V-747 History​

Jun 7, 2024

It is obvious that the most demanding industries require the most sophisticated and robust equipment. In relation to agriculture, this is no exception, as the intensive application of this work has required increasingly larger machinery. While it is more common to see such equipment today, several decades ago, a vehicle emerged that would become the king of these machines: the Big Bud 747.

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Big Bud 747 - Wikipedia

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Well, the old duffers with old tractors are at it again. This time for the All-Nebraska Tractor Drive. Just taking the old tractors on a drive on the dusty back roads through south central Nebraska. Around 100 tractors, and the registration fee goes to cover meals over the two days, a few expenses, and the rest donated to veterans assistance. The group presented a check for $8000 to the local veterans home.

We got those old tractors wound up to around 11 miles per hour, and covered fifty miles (plus or minus) plus breaks today.
Day two of the drive tomorrow...






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Interesting outing.

I've been on group rides with small (200cc) dual-sport motorcycles, but this gives new meaning to "slow."

Are they camping out somewhere? What a way that would be to really tie the group together, build the mood...bring all the hardware in a circle, put up backpacker tents and a fire pit in the center. Hot food, good stories, and various cold or hot beverages as the sun goes down.
 
@Jarrod32 In the vid are you guys on a road or someone's property?

Thanks for sharing.
 
We had a steak supper after Friday's drive, so there was plenty of BSing going on. Most of us know a lot of the others through various shows and clubs. I'm pretty confident that this crew would not be interested in camping.
 

Rat Truck Oil Burner ride with Matt Groover =D Welcome to The Customikes Experience ;-)​

Jun 16, 2024 MILL CREEK MACHINE WORKS

Hanging with my buddy Matt Groover at Mill Creek Machine Works. He got his rat truck in running condition and told me to come for a run down Mill Creek!! Come ride along with us ;-)

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Cold War Motoring: The Communist Cars of the Soviet Union​

A classic car connaisseur talks about the communist cars of the Soviet Union. Specifically those of Russian carmakers during the 1950s and 60s. We talk about all the brands, like Lada, the GAZ Chaika, the illustrious Volga's and the superdeluxe state cars for the nomenklatura, the ZILs. Were they any good? And where are these pre-planned car brands now?

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From the screenshot...it looks for all the world like a reverse-engineered Packard Clipper, with the wheelbase stretched. Like Chrysler did with the Chrysler Executive, a stretched K-Car.

The 1950s were not Packard's best years - they were going down, and fast. Why the Soviets would have chosen THAT car to copy, I cannot imagine. Maybe because they figured that Packard, tied up in what would be a disastrous purchase of Studebaker, had too much going on to take legal action and no way to sanction international markets.
 

Who Loves A Farm Tractor Parade? This One Is Full of Case Classics At Albert City, Iowa!​

Jun 21, 2024 #classictractor #tractor #classictractorfever

A few years ago we traveled to the Albert City Threshermen and Collectors Show in Albert City, Iowa. They were celebrating 175 Years of Case and so we took in the HUGE tractor parade that had TONS of Case steam engines and farm tractors for the crowd to look over. Here's a fun look at the big Parade of Power at Albert City!

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Should Classic Cars be Electric?​

Jun 30, 2024

A classic car connaisseur asks the difficult question whether it's a sacrilige and a heinous crime to convert a classic car into an electric car or not. As it turns out, there are actually quite a few cars that could benefit from having an electric drivetrain.

This video is more about the comments than the video, let me know your thoughts on what is the most important car of each decade or all time!

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