Category: Car Culture
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The stunning Giulia TZ Berlinetta Prototipo
This little known Alfa Romeo prototype car is mostly a well kept secret, there is little about this car on the web. What we do know is that it is beautiful! The story goes like this: A man named Lodovico Chizzola built this car for a successor to the TZ, but Alfa opted for their own…
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A Car With Six Flavors – The Maserati 5000GT
Welcome back to your history lecture. Put your vape away, no, I don’t care if you need it to concentrate. This week we will be covering one of the most prominent, timeless, and beautiful classics from Italy’s automakers, as you have likely guessed, the Maserati 5000GT. Let’s get the basics out of the way: this…
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2022 Porsche Turbo S Suffers Suspension Failure During Track-day Due To Weight Of Driver’s Ego
“We only factored in about a 50% increase in ego inflation, it seems this wasn’t enough”
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The Stratopolonez – When Communism Was Truly a Party
A piece by Comrade Zdzislaw Most people know about the Polonez. It’s a terrible car, but it also went rallying. Yeah, no kidding, this car ran in Group 4 in rallies across the Eastern Bloc against other shiteboxes of it’s kind, like Wartburgs, Ladas, Dacias and Skodas. But what if I told you that there…
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The Secret Cult Following of the Amazing Suzuki Kizashi
Suzuki isn’t the first manufacture you think of when some one says “fun”. Yes, there are the few outliers like the Swift Sport, but in general, they are just another cheap Japanese family car. However, there is a little hidden gem. This happens to be the quite plain Suzuki Kizashi. Why the Kizashi? What is…
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2023 Mis-Shift Rally Wrap-up
Last weekend, us at MSIMA put together the very first Mis-Shift Road Rally. To be specific, this was a TSD Rally, which awards points based off of how far off the target average speed is between each sector. Consider it the most legal automotive racing you could do on public roads. This was the first…
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Dodge and Mitsubishi’s HEMI That Never Was
From the desk of Daniel “Pinecone” Verona. Yeah, that’s a Dodge HEMI badge, and you’re probably wondering how it ended up in this situation. Let’s investigate. I wouldn’t blame you for falling into the same pit as myself, slinging doubt and humor at the idea of a K Car with an engine badge reserved for…
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A Melkus RS1000 Is The Best Kind Of Terrible
From the desk of Daniel “Pinecone” Verona. In the past I have written of cars so underwhelming that they end up being great fun to drive. Some others follow this path with no positive impressions at all, and a certain, rare group have so many kinds of negative qualities that they are immensely hard to…
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Man buys car with CB radio Antenna, Now Wanted by the KGB
Local south Florida man recently imported an AE85 from Japan. The car had several oddities that attracted our buyer (who’s identity we will remain hidden), from an HKS turbo, rare bodywork, and oddly enough, what he believed to be a CB radio. However, after fighting the DMV bureaucracy, the buyer finally took the car out…
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The Story Behind The Corvette SportWagon
Here at MSIMA we all love wagons, but the one I am going to talk about today is a slightly different take. What you are seeing is a C3 Corvette wagon conversion. It is not a homemade piece, there were multiple companies and people who sold wagon conversion kits to Corvette owners. The idea first…