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  • Tim Baxter

    June 26, 2008 9:35 a.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor

    Just in case you haven't noticed, were adding a lot of old stuff to the articles and project cars sections. So if you want to go back in time and check out the Ro-Spit or Per's 122s project, or maybe take another look at JG's Porsche 944 profile, they're in there now.

    More to come. And I take requests.

  • phillyj

    June 26, 2008 10:54 a.m. phillyj New Reader

    is the back issues dating to the early 2000s back up? I like those cause i never knew GRM back then and i was too young to care about cars then

  • Tim Baxter

    June 26, 2008 10:56 a.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor

    Working on it!

    I don't want to just throw 'em up there. I want to do it right, with pix and nice formatting and all that. But yeah, they should be coming.

  • June 26, 2008 11:10 a.m. Nashco Dork

    Cool! I hadn't seen the 122 project before, I'm going through it now. My girlfriend and I have been looking for a 122 wagon project for a while, something that's rough around the edges and needs to be revived but isn't so far gone that rust repair is going to be the biggest part of the project. They sure are cool cars.

    Bryce

  • Tim Baxter

    June 26, 2008 11:11 a.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor

    My girlfriend and I have been looking for a 122 wagon project for a while, something that's rough around the edges and needs to be revived but isn't so far gone that rust repair is going to be the biggest part of the project

    You, me, and a lot of other folks

  • June 26, 2008 11:25 a.m. Nashco Dork

    They're surprisingly common here in Portland. We checked out one a few weeks ago ($500 asking price) but it was too far gone....rusted floors, although the hard parts were all solid, and there wasn't a straight panel on the car although none were hit hard either. We checked one out last fall that was the perfect candidate, but the seller had a friend finally commit to buying it (after months of saying he might be interested) only moments before we arrived. Volvos are super common out here, I've never seen so many in one place anywhere else. You can't go a day without seen a P1800 out here, quite literally. If we weren't looking for a project, we could just pick up one in fair shape for a couple grand, but where's the fun in that?

    Bryce

  • June 26, 2008 11:27 a.m. Nashco Dork

    Baxter, I just noticed that in the project cars section if you float over the picture (for the related section you're interested in) it highlights the text, but it isn't clickable. If you go over the text it highlights the text and is clickable. It seems like if you float over the picture and get the changing text color, you should also get to click on the picture as well. Perhaps that's the intended function and it just doesn't work right with IE6.

    Bryce

  • Tim Baxter

    June 26, 2008 11:54 a.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor

    That's IE6. You're also missing out on the the shadowed clicky effect.

  • problemaddict

    June 26, 2008 1:21 p.m. problemaddict New Reader

    If you don't already have plans to, could you add the Formula Wheee (I've got a question about that one) and the staff cars from the $1500 Challenge?

    Thanks dude!

    BTW, awesome job on the new look of the site. I'm diggin' it.

  • Ryan9118

    June 26, 2008 1:32 p.m. Ryan9118 HalfDork

    I don't think it's been added yet, but an article I'd like to see put online was the FWD autocross tips one. It was in the mag a couple years ago, and I think the featured car was a CRX. Some hot shoe driver was driving it, and it had a bunch of tips on how to get more speed out of FWD cars. That was a cool article to read.

 

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