During my senior year of college in 1987, my dad gave me some money to buy my own car. I can only guess that he got tired of me constantly tinkering with our family car and borrowing it to drive to school and other curricular (and extra-curricular) activities. I’ve always liked the Volkswagen Beetle, especially Herbie the Love Bug (from ...

After extinguishing the fire that engulfed the engine compartment of his beloved 1970 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 in July 2022, owner Ferdi Raquelsantos initially tried to determine the cause of the fire. He learned that a rubber fuel line had burst, spewed gasoline around the engine, which was somehow ignited by a misfire from the distributor or by the hot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever heard the expression, “My momma told me that there will be days like these”? Well, we’re having one of those days with our 1995 Jaguar XJ6. Astute readers will recall that we drove it home from the Service Department of the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Greenhills dealership (All British Cars, Inc. or ABC) on a Friday (January ...