Written by Tara Hurlin, Published by Hagerty
Real Garages, Real StrugglesTara takes a comical approach to sharing her experience of working on cars in a less-than-ideal situation. Click here to read more!
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Top Cars Influenced by WomenWomen’s involvement in the automotive industry dates back to 1888 with Bertha Benz, and has only expanded from there. Click here to read more!
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Lingenfelter Cars and CoffeeIt's the largest weekly early-morning event in Michigan. Click here to read more!
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Gridlife's Track-Attack Strikes AgainThis isn’t your typical track event. Hell, it isn’t even the three-day music and motorsports festival described on the webpage and social media. Gridlife is a family — a growing, steadfast community devoted to the cars and the track. Click here to read more.
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Why This Car is Cool: Mazda RX-7This lean, mean jelly bean is driving proof that modern performance cars don’t need mammoth, 400-plus horsepower engines to make hair stand on end. A perfect example of proper engineering, the 1993-‘95 Mazda RX-7 is a solid yet lightweight, well-balanced giggle-inducing machine.Click here to read more!
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Car Purchasing 101Diehard car couple Tara and Jake Hurlin never have trouble agreeing to add a new classic to their collection. But if you find yourself on the losing end of a decision to buy, Tara has some tips for you: Click here to read more!
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Why This Car Is Cool: Pontiac WS6 |
A Morris Minor CustomSally learned a lot from this build. The repairs and modifications to the 1963 Morris Minor were extensive, and completing everything in 2½ years — considering the previous condition of the car — is admirable. Click here to read more!
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The Hershey Swap to Street ChallengeTara Hurlin was honored to be a part of one epic build that was to be completed in 100 hours on the grounds of Hershey, Pennsylvania's swap meet. Click here to read more.
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Celebrating 75 Years of Motorcycle Mania in SturgisThere is a low, deep rumble surging statewide in anticipation of the 75th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Riders come from all over the U.S., and this year Aug. 3-9 has the potential to be one of the greatest and largest gatherings of motorcycle enthusiasts ever. Click here to read more.
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What Drives You: New York MonstersIn her series called "What Drives You," Tara Hurlin takes a deeper dive into the world of custom and modified cars by getting in touch with the proud people who own them. In this article, she tells about a family that builds "monster trucks", quite literally. Click here to read more about Reaper's Rejects builds.
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WHAT DRIVES YOU: A MINOR PROJECTImagine a little girl eating sweets on her 10th birthday while taking the rocker cover gasket off of an old car with a big, sugar-caked grin on her face. Life doesn’t get any better than that.
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WHAT DRIVES YOU: LIFE WITH HOT RODSThe garage is a place where boys become men; it’s where many learn to cuss, spit and siphon gas, and it’s where they learn how to keep their cars on the road all by themselves.
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WHAT DRIVES YOU: THE NEED FOR SPEED AND BACK AGAINThe story begins in 1969 when Loren’s dad was 20 years old and preparing to leave for Army basic training. He was visiting with his friends and sitting disassembled in their shop was a brand new yellow 1969 Mercury Cougar Eliminator.
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WHAT DRIVES YOU: CAR LOVE REBELLION FROM MICHIGANElizabeth Treen was raised in an old-fashioned home where the thought of a girl getting dirty and working on a car was unthinkable, and whenever she tried, the tools were taken away. But her love for things that go “vroom” never left her.
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WHAT DRIVES YOU: GETTIN’ LOW IN HOUSTONAs a teenager, Suranto fell in love with lowriders in movies and on MTV, and he had a watchful eye for Impalas. In the early 1990s, he and his family moved from Germany to Houston, where he could finally get his hands on an Impala.
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WHAT DRIVES YOU: A CAR AS RARE AS ITS OWNERWellenbrink, of Cloverdale, B.C., Canada, has spent 60 blissful years restoring cars and related memorabilia, and even built a replica Shell Oil station in his backyard. But when he laid eyes on a 1952 Meteor Customline, he knew he had found
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WHAT DRIVES YOU: A 50-YEAR DREAMIt was the car that started it all. Jim Powers’ 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air put a twinkle in his eye ever since it rolled off the production line, and one finally entered his life in 1962. It was a drag racer’s dream come true.
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WHAT DRIVES YOU: JEFF JONES’ LIFE WITH A GASSERJeff has lived and breathed the heavily sought-after Willys gasser since he was old enough to discover auto-related magazines at grocery stores, so it comes as no surprise that he bought his first love, a 1936 Willys Odyssey coupe, while he was in junior high school.
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WHAT DRIVES YOU: GEEZERS WITH GASSERSIf anyone knows how to live their dream, it’s the Geezer Gassers, a drag racing enthusiast group that focuses on the fun, excitement and camaraderie of racing 1960s-look Nostalgia Gassers.
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WHAT DRIVES YOU: LIFE WITH A 1972 MERCURYThe proud owner stood nearby, eager to share with curious onlookers the story of his car, and at first glance it was clear that this man was crazy about his Mercury. Every fine detail on this Comet is an expression of himself, entirely customized to his liking.
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MOTORING MOMS: HOLD THE FLOWERS, BRING ON THE CARSTara Hurlin pays tribute to all the motoring moms on Mother's Day withe an extra-loud, pavement-rumbling shout out.
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RISK AND REWARD AT THE 2016 GOOD VIBRATIONS MOTORSPORTS MARCH MEETTara Hurlin heads to the annual 2016 Good Vibrations Motorsports March Meet at the Auto Club Famoso Raceway in McFarland, Cali.
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