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With spring around the corner, the boys up at RPM start moving the business outside, Vermont-style. Yeah, you big-city Ferrari restorers may have engine rooms, but we don’t need your sissified ways. No, give us some near-freezing temperatures, a rolling cart and the Colombo-designed 3.0-liter V-12 from a 250GT, and we’ll make your eardrums bleed while we run it unmuffled for about an hour to check compression and leakdown. ‘S what I’m talkin’ about.

Although many new-vehicle buyers may want to purchase an environmentally friendly vehicle, only 11 percent are "very willing" to pay more to do so, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Power Auto ...

While looking for a photo to show McCourt the other day (it was, in fact, a photo of a 1960 Chevrolet Viking LCF that I want so bad, my heart aches every time I see the photo), I ran across a few photos of a Superior-bodied GMC COE built for mobile repair shop duty and, apparently, recently restored.

According to a page at classiccoe.com, Chevrolet and GMC built very few four-wheel-drive two-ton Streamline COEs early on in World War II. In fact, GM replaced the Streamline-type COEs in 1941 with the Art Deco-type COEs, which makes the Streamlines, introduced in 1939, quite rare in both military and civilian form. Most, if not all, four-wheel-drive versions, seemed to come in military form.

So it doesn’t have any weapons, can’t sweep for mines and would probably tip over in the slightest crosswind. But you could fix anything you broke along the way, so that’s got to count for something.

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Posted Mar 7th 2008 11:26AM by Merritt Johnson Filed under: Sports/GTs , Dodge , Lifestyle Click above to enlarge The Neiman Marcus catalog is always full of superfluous luxury goods like hover crafts or ... via Autoblog

"You will never come to the average emissions of average car."

Lamborghini introduced a lighter, faster and greener version of its successful Gallardo at the Geneva International Motor Show on Tuesday, as demand for cars with a smaller carbon tire print seeps even into the ... via Chicago Sun-Times