We are back! And-as you can tell by the title of this article-with quality content!!! YES! Three exclamation points. Get on up Racers it's sulfur surfing time! It was 2004 and I had just enlisted in the service. Like most I was wide eyed and full of optimism. Scratch that I was cynical, probably more … Continue reading Why Does Your Toyota Smell Like a Fart?
2017 Spillout VW Show and Swap Meet
Welcome to our first post covering an auto show. Naturally since it was Matt who went it was a #VW show. Texas can be hot, but they always know how to car show... specifically under a large pavilion at "Traders Village" which is a gynormous flea market in southwest San Antonio. Those are just four … Continue reading 2017 Spillout VW Show and Swap Meet
The Phantom Menace Redux
In the previous post I talked about stumbling across a #BarnFind #craigslist ad that simply stated "1973 Volkswagen." I shot off an email and got a text response from the owner's daughter, Hannah. Hannah was very nice and we talked a good deal about her father's collection and what he had acquired over the past 27 … Continue reading The Phantom Menace Redux
The Phantom Menace
If you are like me and love cars, which if you are on this page you probably are, then you spend a fair amount of the day looking at craigslist for that rare gem that everyone else misses. Honestly it is an addiction. Today I came across an add titled "Warehouse full of #barncars." Yeah, … Continue reading The Phantom Menace
Bugatti
The #Bugatti If you’ve been living under an automotive rock then you don’t know Bugatti is working on the #Veyron successor. A successor called #Chiron. You may be unfamiliar with the name Chiron, however, it is a title assigned to the top #centaur amongst centaurs. The Chiron was the most wise and the most just … Continue reading Bugatti
That time I drove through Berlin
This is the one. This is the one I’ve been planning to write for a long, long time. Almost a rental car round up but so much more. Once, not so long ago, I drove a vehicle I had hoped to drive since the moment I learned of its existence. When I was a boy … Continue reading That time I drove through Berlin
Hoon, Kill, Collect for 12 June 17
I typically try and knock out a theme for these... but tonight I don't have much. I had some chicken with BBQ sauce for dinner... nothing there. I'm drinking water... nothing there. I'm going to go after something near and dear to my heart: Volkswagen do Brasil! Translated that just mean Volkswagen of Brasil... but … Continue reading Hoon, Kill, Collect for 12 June 17
Hoon, Kill, Collect: The thing that should not be (5 June 2017)
Its been another week and here we are! Regardless of the lack of comments we are committed to eventually getting people to argue and judge others over this. It'll be pure covefefe! What's it gonna be? A 1978 Subaru Brat, a 1978 El Camino and a 1978 Ford Ranchero.
Hoon, Kill, Collect – May 29err 30th, 2017
Yesterday was Memorial Day and rightly so. Our great nation is built upon the sacrifice of great men and women who gave everything and more for freedom. In honor or Memorial Day I pushed our weekly column till Tuesday... and I can do that cause I'm the boss around here. Speaking of freedom and America... … Continue reading Hoon, Kill, Collect – May 29err 30th, 2017
Hoon, Kill, Collect 22 May 17
Last week introduced you to our first daily feature called "Hoon, Kill, Collect" an automotive take on F**k, kill, marry. While it wasn't a big success we here at Soap Box Racer are mostly dedicated and without further adieu here is your second installment. Adieu... that's French, I smell a theme coming on! You choose!
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