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There’s a version of car culture that existed long before algorithms, coffee meetups, and polished social media posts. A version built in cold garages, under streetlights, with borrowed tools and friends who stayed late to help finish the job.
That’s the world John Roman is fighting to preserve at Ground Level Garage in Brooklyn.
Inside his shop, old Japanese street cars are still tuned by ear. Customers are taught how to work on their own cars. Friends walk through the door and immediately start helping however they can. Nothing is precious. Everything gets driven.
Watch the full film: https://t.co/HtknbJGT1g
Directed By: Jacob Hopkins
Featuring: John Roman (Ground Level)
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What started as a simple Monterey scouting trip quickly turned into a full-blown analog adventure centered around a worn, manual-swapped BMW E23 discovered through the Overcrest community.
Instead of renting a car, the journey embraced the unpredictable charm of old cars, backroad friendships, tire hunts, and the kind of imperfect road-trip storytelling modern cars rarely create anymore.
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Written and shot by Kris Clewell
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Hans Herrmann rose from helping rebuild his family’s café business in postwar Stuttgart to becoming one of endurance racing’s greatest drivers. Nicknamed “Lucky Hans,” he built a legendary career with Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, famously driving under a closing railroad crossing during the 1954 Mille Miglia and later winning Le Mans in 1970 aboard the iconic Porsche 917K.
After finally delivering Porsche its first overall Le Mans victory, Herrmann immediately retired at 42, honoring a promise to his wife that he would walk away if he won the race. His legacy extends far beyond the victories, remembered not only for his fearless talent but for understanding when it was time to leave the sport behind.
Hans Herrmann, 1928–2026
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Written by: Kris Clewell
Photos by: Porsche
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Your dose of Sunday Serenity, where the Ferrari F355 meets the romance of Paris.
No music. No commentary. Just timeless Italian craftsmanship surrounded by timeless culture.
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Watch the full film: https://t.co/tME9FyI9VV
Directed by: Maxence Massaro
Featured: Alexis Parenty
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Ethan Moore can stand in a doorway and name a Maserati A6G by sight.
It was a Bay Area shop he had been meaning to check out. He drove over, found the door open, and stood at it, naming what he saw to himself: a Ferrari 250 California Spider, a Fiat 8V Supersonic, a Maserati A6G. His boss-to-be, Rafi Najarian, was working on a Jaguar E-Type. Rafi saw him, waved him in, and after listening to a teenager freak out over the contents of his shop, asked Ethan if he wanted a job. “Hell yeah,” he said.
His own car is a built 1995 BMW E36 M3. The E36 M3 followed the legendary E30, and for a lot of people it has been the first real sports car, the one that gets you in the door.
“This car is just absolutely glued to the road,” he says. “It does what I want it to do, and that’s something that’s very hard to find in a lot of cars.” He lives around back roads and mountain roads. The E36 goes out every weekend.
Watch the full film: https://t.co/rj70zDquJA
Directed By: Paolo Lekai
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Your dose of Sunday Serenity™, featuring the Röhrl Ascona carrying the weight of rally history.
No music. No commentary. Just vintage rally endurance pushed to its absolute limit.
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Watch the full film: https://t.co/903j4xslch
Director/Editor: Matthias Wagner
Music & sound: P.K. Stephan
Produced by: Unframed Films
Photography by: Jonas Eiden
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Every system that touches you is built to take a decision off your plate. Phones have taken over, cars stay between the lines, refrigerators order groceries, and most of us don't notice anymore. Justin Cashmore noticed.
His answer was a 1960 Renault Dauphine with no power steering, no power brakes, no traction control, and a supercharged Porsche VR6 behind the seats. He calls it Le Brute. The chassis is cage-stiffened. The shifter throws backwards from convention with a bike handlebar grip for a knob, and the whole car is right-hand drive because he wanted it that way. Justin used to ride sport bikes but stopped when his daughter was born. He needed the visceral hit back with something around him. Le Brute was the answer.
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Watch the full film: https://t.co/3RaEnu570v
Director: Tiziano Niero
Featured: Justin Cashmore
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The Venturi 400 GT remains one of the automotive world’s best-kept secrets, a raw French-built supercar that embodied the same uncompromising spirit as the Ferrari F40.
Developed from Venturi’s one-make racing series, the ultra-lightweight machine paired twin-turbo V6 power, aggressive aero, and a stripped-back driving experience into a road car built with pure motorsport intent.
With only a handful of street-legal examples ever produced, the 400 GT has become an almost mythical figure among collectors and enthusiasts. Its rarity, analog character, and overlooked legacy represent a forgotten era when small manufacturers could still challenge the world’s biggest supercar names through passion, engineering, and sheer audacity.
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Written by David Marvier
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Your dose of Sunday Serenity™, showcasing the well-worn charm of a race-proven Volkswagen GTI.
No music. No commentary. Just a lifelong relationship between driver, machine, and the open track.
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Director: Tiziano Niero
Featured: Travis Washay
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Ralph Guglielm bought this 1965 Volkswagen Beetle out of the woods above Boulder Creek for $1,500 after it had been abandoned between a breakup. The shift linkage was broken, the coil was dead, and the drive home to Santa Cruz happened entirely in second gear.
Now the same car lives as a Baja-converted Herbie tribute that has somehow found its way onto frozen lakes in Montana, rally stages in Utah, and into the middle of one of the strangest enthusiast communities imaginable.
For Ralph, the Beetle became the thing that pushed him out of safe decisions and into the kind of life his aunt always told him to chase: one where you ask first and figure the rest out later.
This is a story about underdogs, bad ideas, analog driving, and why an old Volkswagen still makes people smile sixty years later.
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Directed by: Paolo Lekai
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Your dose of Sunday Serenity™, featuring the Fiat 8V Supersonic in its purest form.
No music. No commentary. Just the sound of Italian artistry pushing the boundaries of performance and design.
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Featured: Tucker Watson
Directed by: Tiziano Niero
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In 1975, Dan Rowzie sat on the roof of the Red Ball Garage in Manhattan waiting for the Cannonball clock to start. The car was a Porsche 911 fitted with an IROC engine. The target was Brock Yates and Dan Gurney’s cross-country record: New York to Redondo Beach at an average of eighty miles an hour.
They didn’t beat it. But Rowzie still believes their thirty-eight hour and thirty-nine minute run remains the fastest Porsche time of any official Cannonball.
Today he’s eighty-eight years old and still spending time with a Burgundy 1968 911 in his garage. Vintage race motor. Roll cage. Good taste.
“There’s a lot of feedback and spirit,” he says, “that’s missing in the later heavier cars.”
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Watch the full film: https://t.co/w4Y3izvFR3
Director: Tiziano Niero
Featured: Dan Rowzie
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Across two days at Goodwood Motor Circuit, the 83rd Members’ Meeting unfolded as a full spectrum of motorsport, where cars built decades apart were pushed to their limits in the same space. The Protheroe Cup highlighted the enduring appeal of the Jaguar E-Type, while the Super Tourer shootout brought a more modern edge, rooted in cars that once mirrored everyday road machines.
Alongside it all, the presence of a championship-winning Formula 1 car served as a reminder of how quickly innovation can reshape the sport. At Goodwood, those moments are not separated by time, they exist together, continuing forward.
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Your dose of Sunday Serenity™, where a Subaru 22B never forgot where it came from.
No music. No commentary. Just the sound of rally history settling in.
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Directed by: Ben Adams
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Just a Ferrari 365 GT4 BB ripping through a forest. Five liters of mid-engine flat-twelve, the rarer of Ferrari's twelves, and a sound most people have only ever read about.
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Director: Paolo Lekai
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Your dose of Sunday Serenity™, a lightweight finding its place at the top.
No music. No commentary. Just the sound of an underdog rising.
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Watch the full film: https://t.co/tHWShWoaHq
Featured: Quentin Leblond (navigator), Valentin Simonet (driver)
Directed by: Maxence Massaro
Special Credits to:
Hamdi Ben Lagha
Lucas Pariset
Thomas Joncquel
Balthazar Jullien
Ugo Missana
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Look at the original Alfa Romeo ad for the Giulietta Turbodelta and there's a military fighter jet parked on the tarmac behind it. That was the pitch. This car was built to go war on the track, and they needed to sell 500 road-legal examples to put it on a GT grid. They built 361 before they ran out of buyers and pulled the plug on the homologation program. The Turbodelta never raced. Every car they made went home with a private owner, and Massimo owns number 117.
"To make something this unique," Massimo says, "you need creativity, but with a pinch of madness."
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Director: Alessandro Bianchi
Featured: Massimo Migliazzo
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The Petrolicious Post is now available worldwide.
Delivery may take a little longer, and international shipping may be $2 additional, but the experience remains the same. A printed issue that’s meant to be read, folded, and lived with.
Order by April 26 to receive Issue 005: https://t.co/WQTlwh9dGa
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Audi’s five-cylinder engine has spent 50 years defining the brand through its willingness to be different. Introduced as a balance between compact size and strong torque, it offered a unique alternative to traditional engine layouts while delivering a distinctive sound shaped by its unusual firing order.
Its legacy was cemented in motorsport, where the turbocharged five-cylinder paired with quattro all-wheel drive reshaped rally racing by prioritizing traction, balance, and control over raw power. Decades later, it remains a defining piece of Audi’s identity, carried forward into modern performance cars as one of the last engines with true character and continuity.
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✍️ Khris Bharath
📸 Audi
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Your dose of Sunday Serenity, showcasing a duo built for a rally that never came.
No music. No commentary. Just the sound of finding a new purpose.
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Watch the full film: https://t.co/Fd8MF4xFEM
Featured: Mike Marett
Directed by: Tiziano Niero
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