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AutoMatters & More: December Nights 2018 in Balboa Park
Balboa Park is a San Diego treasure and a United States National Historic Landmark. In 1915 it was the site of the Panama-California Exposition.
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AutoMatters & More: All-New 2020 Jeep Gladiator Revealed at the LA Auto Show
A generation of young drivers may not be aware of Jeep trucks, which were first introduced by Willys-Overland in 1947 and continued through to the Jeep Comanche pickup (1986 – 1992). Jeep chose its 2018 LA Auto Show press conference to reveal the all-new 2020 Jeep Gladiator.
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AutoMatters & More: 'Volcanoes' in IMAX & Maker Faire at Balboa Park in San Diego
As you can see in the new IMAX film – aptly titled “Volcanoes: The Fires of Creation,” at the Heikoff Giant Dome Theater in the Fleet Science Center in San Diego’s iconic Balboa Park – “for billions of years volcanoes have helped shape the world we know.
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AutoMatters & More: Alien Fresh Jerky and the U.F.O. Hotel – an American Success Story
Do you believe that aliens are here? Recently I had an alien encounter of the first kind in the California desert, as I drove back towards San Diego from Las Vegas, after covering the SEMA Show.
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AutoMatters & More: Acura NSX Technology Revealed in a Unique Cutaway Car
There were a few standouts from the crowd of 1,500 feature vehicles at the 2018 SEMA Show. One such vehicle – Mopar’s “Super Charger” and its 1,000 horsepower “Hellephant” crate engine – was covered in the preceding column (AutoMatters & More # 564).
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AutoMatters & More: 1,000hp 'Hellephant' & 'Super Charger' Concept at SEMA Show 2018
This international show – one of the largest held in Las Vegas – is a trade-only event to enable “automotive specialty equipment manufacturers to display alongside automotive manufacturers to debut new, innovative products, and connect with industry buyers from all over the world.”
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AutoMatters & More: Custom Wide Body, V8-powered MGB – the Biggest Challenge (Part 3 of 3)
This is the final installment chronicling the very custom transformation by Jim Stabe of his formerly stock 1966 MGB.
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AutoMatters & More: Custom Wide Body, V8 MGB – 17 Years in the Making (Part 2 of 3)
Welcome back! In Part 1 we learned that Jim Stabe retired his 1966 MGB by the late 1990s, after it had been involved in an accident and its drivetrain was sold.