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Stolen Nomad Alert

Friday, January 11th, 2008

As our own Jeff Koch can attest, Southern California is an easy place to have your collector car jacked. One of the latest victims turned up on our My Hemmings pages a couple of days ago.

Robert ushered in the New Year in the worst way imaginable: Waking up to find his 1956 Nomad hotrod gone. […]

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The Supra-LeMans is way cool, no doubt, but without context, isn’t any more than that. There’s deep thought behind this project, though, as we asked Ralf Becker about his inspiration. He talks about his “remixing-idea,” the “cultural bastard” project. He also mentioned that, in the spirit of German eco-friendliness, he’s planning on 108-octane bio-methanol power, […]

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* Is it a shame to have used NOS Econoline sheetmetal to form this custom bar in a vanner’s basement? Where’s the soul to it then? Where are the stories that start, “This was once my daily driver”? Then again, as Cap’n Scurvy himself notes, no vans were harmed in the making of this bar. […]

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