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With how busy life is today we can all be guilty of letting time slip us by. Our lives tend to run at such a frantic pace that what seems like an instant is actually three years, and so it's easy to wake up one day and wonder where the last decade has gone. And one area many of us are feeling this is our cars.  We used to not be able to get through a day where someone wasn't selling a 1980s-1990s hero car for dirt cheap. You'd get it and they were still new enough that you could boost...

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One of the toughest battles the Mighty Car Mods dynamic duo faced in their EK Honda Civic abandoned project build has been the finishing touches. It's easy to forget some of our favourite nuggets are more than 25 years old (a quarter of a Century!) and this comes with some unintended issues. Our 1990s heroes are at a funny age where many of us consider them classic cars, and they have a lot of aftermarket support for speed parts... but they don't have any support for restoration-type parts. Spare glass, weather seals, reproduction trim panels and fabrics, and body parts are all...

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If you've WATCHED THE LATEST EPISODE of the Honda CIvic build you'd know that Marty and MOOG are at the most critical, butt sweat-inducing moment of Project Car Life... the first time you turn the key and try to fire your nugget into life. Sometimes they fire straight up, sometimes you're left hanging off the key as the starter turns into a molten mess and that junkyard engine refuses to cough into life.  Not all engines can just be fired into life, and there are some precautions you should follow, lest you don't end up wearing your sad pants with...

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If you've seen THE LATEST EPISODE (HERE) the lads have updated the looks of their EK Civic hatch, now the B16A VTEC powerplant is sitting tough in its home. While the new panels aren't bog-laden, dented pieces of filth that had been on the car, they aren't the same metallic Mazda2 Spicy Orange as the back half and this has led to much debate about what colour Marty and MOOG should coat their hatch in.   Reds, greys, blaaaaack, white and 4 million other hues have been discussed, but there was a fascinating fact which popped up in the MCM shed while...

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