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A Tale of Two Sixes

  This is not a technical treatise on Jaguar’s postwar inline six cylinder power plants, merely a clarification of the difference between the XK engine and the AJ6 that superseded Continue Reading

Posted On : December 18, 2017 Published By : Bryan Raab Davis
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Caught in the Crossfire, Mr Malaise drives an ’82 Corvette

The C3 Corvette is a piece of high automotive theater, it demands the onlooker’s  attention and has no shame about it. The form is bosomy with razor sharp creases that Continue Reading

Posted On : November 1, 2017 Published By : Bryan Raab Davis
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Personally Yours, the Rise and Fall of the Personal Luxury Car

    Luxury ain’t what it used to be. In the modern world even a Cadillac has firmly upholstered seats and is expected to lap the Nurburgring at warp speed. Continue Reading

Posted On : October 25, 2017 Published By : Bryan Raab Davis
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Reduce, Reuse…Rescue

Citroen’s stellar SM may have been the last French “grand routier”, conceived and built in the same vein as Delage, Delahaye, and certain Buagttis. It deftly combined suave French suspension, Continue Reading

Posted On : October 2, 2017 Published By : Bryan Raab Davis
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Malaise is Magnificent

I can feel a bizarre 60 Hz electric sting at regular, rhythmic intervals on my left shoulder. Buzzzz, buzzzz, pause. Buzzzzz, buzzzz, pause. The sensation, unlike anything I’ve felt before Continue Reading

Posted On : September 3, 2017 Published By : Bryan Raab Davis
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Yours truly, Car Crazed Candyass

For those that may care I thought I’d write a few words about who I am and why I dedicate disproportionate chunks of my life to mooning over underpowered old Continue Reading

Posted On : July 26, 2017 Published By : Mr Malaise
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The Playboy's Eldorado

The 1970’s have been described as the 60’s with a hangover. I subscribe to the philosophy that some clarity can come in the form of a hangover. The body and Continue Reading

Posted On : June 29, 2017 Published By : Mr Malaise
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In Praise of the "Hairdresser's Car"

hairdressers car A car that is most likely being driven by a homosexual – like an Audi TT “Hey look at Rob in his new Audi TT – thats definitely Continue Reading

Posted On : April 27, 2017 Published By : Mr Malaise
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Ephemeral Delights

Definition of ephemera plural ephemera also ephemerae play\i-ˈfe-mər-ē, -ˈfem-rē\ or ephemeras 1:  something of no lasting significance —usually used in plural 2: ephemera plural :  paper items (as posters, broadsides, and Continue Reading

Posted On : April 13, 2017 Published By : Mr Malaise
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974 Miles, Malaise Era Reliability

Amongst other things, I put in a day a week at a local antique shop. I parked my daily driver which is a 2002 Buick Park Avenue directly in front Continue Reading

Posted On : January 19, 2017 Published By : Mr Malaise

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