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Drive visits a Mercedes Pagoda collector in Bangkok

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Sittisan Quan Sundaravej undertakes the difficult challenge of collecting cars in Thailand, where their importation is illegal. The pride of his collection is his father's Mercedes Pagoda, profiled by Drive.

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Drive visits a Mercedes Pagoda collector in Bangkok originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 04 Aug 2015 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Drive profiles obsessive MG resto-modder

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Drive takes a look at Frontline Developments, a British resto-mod outfit that specializes in classic MGs and brings them up to exquisite modern standards.

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Drive profiles obsessive MG resto-modder originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 13 Jun 2015 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Turbocharged Datsun 510 oozes old-school cool

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Watch as Matt Farah takes a close look at a beautifully customized and highly tuned Datsun 510 Coupe, complete with a turbocharged heart and four times more horsepower than it originally offered.

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Turbocharged Datsun 510 oozes old-school cool originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Drive covers the ups and downs of the Ferrari Testarossa

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Drive serves up a five-minute video of John Pogson, an Englishman who's been restoring Ferraris for decades, discussing the ups and downs of a car that perhaps had the best shoulder pads of that whole decade.

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Drive covers the ups and downs of the Ferrari Testarossa originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 05 Jan 2015 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How to turn a Pontiac Fiero into a trackday car

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Pontiac Fiero track car video

Imagine hitting the track in a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive sports coupe that's affordable and has pretty good parts availability. It might sound like a pipe dream, but it's actually quite possible, if you're willing to think a little outside the box. The Pontiac Fiero is out there just waiting for a little work to turn it into a competent racing machine.

Think about it for a second. Of course, we would all like to be snaking through the curves in something exotic, but what happens when you crash or something breaks? The bills are going to mount up quickly. However, if you ball up a Fiero at the track, as long as you're not hurt, then it's not a huge tragedy.

That's basically the story of Steven Snyder in a new video from Drive starring Matt Farah. Snyder wanted to go to the track cheaply and ended up with an awesome little Fiero with a huge wing and a claimed 220 horsepower at the wheels thanks to a V6 from a Chevrolet Lumina. Check out the video to see how this pint-size Pontiac performs.

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How to turn a Pontiac Fiero into a trackday car originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Chris Harris explains why the world’s best car is… the Citroën 2CV?

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Screencap of Drive Channel's Chris Harris driving his favorite car, a Citroen 2CV

Most recently we've seen Chris Harris in the driver's seat of a Jaguar F-Type, a McLaren P1 prototype and a Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG. And outside the car, there was his indignation over the demonization of the Porsche Carrera GT after Paul Walker's death. So you might not expect him to say of a 1957 Citroën 2CV with all of 12 horsepower, "it's the antidote to all the modern stuff I drive."

That's only the beginning of the hosannas, Harris going on to call the runabout designed to carry two farmers and 50 kilograms of potatoes at 39 miles per hour "the most interesting car I have or ever will own." We could tell you why, but it sounds so much more distinguished when he does it. So you can watch him do so in the video below. Unsurprisingly, not a single drift was given that day.

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Chris Harris explains why the world's best car is... the Citroën 2CV? originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Why you must buy an air-cooled Porsche 911 now

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Porsche 911 on Drive

"Because" might be a good response to our headline, but as a vintage (purists might call 'proper') Porsche 911 is hardly cheap, we suspect you'll need a better explanation than that. Enter Drive editor Mike Spinelli.

Spinelli sits down with Zac Moseley and Mick Prichinello from Classic Car Club Manhattan to first explain why the market for old, air-cooled 911s has gotten so hot over the past few years, and to discuss if it's a bubble that's about to burst. Following that, this video is really is just three guys sitting around talking about old Porsches for 35 minutes. Which, you know, we're pretty onboard with.

Scroll down and have a look at the latest episode of After/Drive, from Drive.

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Why you must buy an air-cooled Porsche 911 now originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Watch Larry Kosilla resurrect the finish of this barn-find 1966 Porsche 912

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Barn-find 1966 Porsche 912 gets a clean up job - video screencap

Larry Kosilla, the founder of the Ammo NYC line of car cleaning products, has his own show YouTube's Drive network - we saw his work before when he gave a Ferrari 288 GTO a two-day detailing job. On this episode, Kosilla gets called in to do his best with a 1966 Porsche 912, a car that was last registered in 1990 and recently found in a barn in Connecticut.

Among the expected dirt and cobwebs, the Irish Green Porsche is also covered what is assumed to be cat fur and "waste." The car is in such delicate condition, however, that Kosilla can't wash it for fear of getting more water in it than on it, so he has to steam and wipe the entire thing down before he begins the paint correction process. In addition to the thorough knowledge of his work and his ability to explain it simply, the episode is captioned with further information one of Porsche's popular but less regarded models, and how Kosilla does what he does.

You'll find a compelling 29 minute masterclass in the video below.

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Watch Larry Kosilla resurrect the finish of this barn-find 1966 Porsche 912 originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Watch Chris Harris pilot a vintage Jaguar C-Type at the Mille Miglia

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Jaguar is a regular runner in the Mille Miglia - in 2010 it entered 27 cars in the historic rally to celebrate its 75th anniversary. This year, in celebration of the F-Type, it registered just four cars with the factory team, but it loaded them up with some bigwig UK celebs like Daniel Day Lewis and Jasmin Le Bon. Chris Harris, our own autoverse celeb, was given a seat in a Jaguar C-Type with professional racing driver Alex Buncombe.

While Harris takes us on a tour of the route, he takes us on an even better tour of what the Mille Miglia is and what it takes to run it. It's a mess of memories, minutes, mementos and sleepless nights. The C-Type was first owned by Juan Manuel Fangio. Stages are timed and require one to drive at a set speed - once, when Buncombe and Harris arrive 90 minutes early they're forced to sit in the car for an hour. Then they sleep for four hours before getting back into a C-Type with an unsilenced exhaust. "There's no better way to get tinnitus."

You can watch the highlights of Harris' run from Brescia to Rome and back in the video below.

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Watch Chris Harris pilot a vintage Jaguar C-Type at the Mille Miglia originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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