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    No Explosion Jokes, Please: Four Families, 36 Ford Pintos!

    By Murilee Martin, 2:20 PM on Tue Nov 4 2008, 1,665 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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    How about the Bauer family, with its ten Pintos in 1980? Hard to believe, but Pintos were once as common a sight as the Taurus is now. With 38 very optimistic highway MPG, these multi-Pinto families could thumb their nose at that damn Ayatollah and his gas-price-jacking hijinks!

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    Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Want an oddball European project, but you're living in a hobo jungle? More »
    Concept Cars

    Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade

    Citroënet is one of the few marque-specific car websites that can measure up to the standard set by Allpar, and it doesn't take much digging there to unearth some jaw-dropping stuff. There's always the infamous Wankel-powered Citroën GX Birotor (rotary + Citroën= boiling brain), but Novaload... More »
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    Bad Brats And Hot Rabbits: Forget Your Malaise With Weird Wheels!

    I was a huge fan of the original mid-70s Wacky Packages (particularly the car-themed cards), so I can't believe I totally missed their 1980 descendants: More »

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