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1970 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 Part 1: Sunday Drive Disaster

On a sunny Sunday morning in July 2022, Ferdi Raquelsantos, started his classic American muscle car, a 1970 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350, to warm it up while waiting for his family in front of their house in an exclusive gated village in Alabang. As the Chairman Emeritus of the Electric Vehicle Association of the Philippines (EVAP), Ferdi usually drives his ...

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1997 Vespa PX150E Part 4: Two Scooters for One – An Even Swap?

We were working on restoring the 1997 Vespa PX150E of actor, comedian and host Jeffrey “Epy” Quizon when he dropped a bomb in July 2011 – he decided to sell his beloved but battered all-steel Italian-made scooter! When asked why, Epy said that he went into business with some partners and he needed to buy a scooter for the messenger/rider ...

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1997 Vespa PX150E Part 3: The (Epyc) Saga Continues!

After Euro Motors Corporation lost the Philippine distributorship of Piaggio and Vespa products to another company in late 2007, we also lost their sponsorship for the restoration of the 1997 Vespa PX 150E entrusted to us by comedian and host Jeffrey “Epy” Quizon. We lost a bit of momentum and it took us a couple of years to get our ...

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1997 Vespa PX150E Part 2: The Ups and Downs of Restoring Epy’s Vespa

We recently revived our old 1997 Vespa PX150E, one of our old Project Bikes from our old MotorCycle Magazine, which we got from Jeffrey “Epy” Quizon, the versatile actor, TV host, and son of the late King of Comedy Dolphy. Please allow us to turn the clock back by 16 years to when we first started the restoration of our ...

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1997 Vespa PX150E Part 1: Getting Epy Quizon’s Scooter

We recently revived our old 1997 Vespa PX150E, one of our old Project Bikes from our old MotorCycle Magazine, which we got from Jeffrey “Epy” Quizon, the versatile actor, TV host, and son of the late King of Comedy Dolphy. Please allow us to turn the clock back by 16 years to when we first started the restoration of our ...

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1990 Nissan Cefiro 2.4 GTS-R Part 3: Our A31 Gets a Paint Washover

First of all, we would like to apologize to the countless loyal followers of our Power Wheels Magazine Project Car series for the delay in the updates. Thank you , dear readers, for your emails and PMs asking about the current status of our project cars. We have to admit that we slowed down a bit in the last few ...

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1989 & 1990 Jaguar XJ6 (XJ40) Part 2: Our Twin Restoration Work Commences

First of all, we’d like to start with some clarifications: In Part 1 of this Power Wheels Magazine Project Car series on the 1989 and 1990 Jaguar XJ6 (XJ40) luxury sport sedans being restored at JSK Custom Paint and Auto Works in Marulas, Valenzuela City for our patron and good friend Rodger Yu, we wrote that the paint finish of ...

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1995 Jaguar XJ6 4.0 SWB Part 7: Debugging Our Big Cat

After our 1995 Jaguar XJ6 was cleaned and detailed by our good friends from Meguiar’s Philippines at the end of August 2021, we left our now-elegant and shiny Power Wheels Magazine project car at the workshop of JSK Custom Paint and Auto Works in Marulas, Valenzuela City for their technicians to continue retracing and fixing the wires that were chewed ...

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1978 Toyota Celica XX Supra Part 2: We Take a Closer Look at Our First-Year, First-Generation Supra Project Car

In Part 1 of this Power Wheels Magazine Project Car series on our recently-acquired 1978 Toyota Celica XX Supra, we narrated how we found the car on Facebook Market Place and became intrigued with its low asking price that we were compelled to see it on December 19, 2021 despite the gloomy weather and holiday traffic. We saw that it ...

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