It's Memorial Day weekend and our overlords at Gawker have granted us a half-day today and a full day off on Monday. So we'll probably be spending our long weekend chugging down beers, bitching about gas prices, watching the Indy 500, engaging in more self-flagellation and playing with some cars we'll be talking about next week. Tuesday we'll return from our brief respite and resume our full-service schedule of pumping out the best auto-related content on the web. Because that's how we remember our veterans — drunk, bitching, self-flagellating and playing with cars. Yes, our name is Jalopnik and we are Americans! Photo Credit: Steve Schwartz

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