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Do you wish to end your struggle against oppressive car stink? What better way than a Nelson Mandela car freshener that smells like cookies? It doesn't make sense, but it does make us chuckle. [FridgeDoor via Reddit] More »
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Let's just contemplate this Car-Freshner Little Tree twisting in the East Oakland breeze and remember that the Grim Automotive Reaper comes for nearly every car... someday. More »
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Peugeot gave up on North America in 1991, so 405s (and 505s) of this era don't exactly crowd the Jettas out of the European section at my local self-service wrecking yard. More »
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People are getting pulled over in the Midwest for hanging air fresheners from mirrors. Why? It's claimed to be an obstruction, and it gives less scrupulous officers reason to search your vehicle. Which, you know, is cool. Or not. [ChicagoTribune] More »
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We love contests, so what better way to brighten the gloom of that ol' Monday salt mine than by thinking up the ultimate cool transmission name? Those of you who have been following the Cool Transmission Name Of The Day series have no doubt looked at names such as Toyoglide and Dynaflow and said to yourselves, "Hey, I could do that!" Well, now you can, because we're going to work 24/7 to get the Gawker Overlords to fund the creation of the Wall Of Death Transmission Factory, where the Official Jalopnik Transmission™ will be manufactured! Make the jump to learn how to enter and what you'll win... More »
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It's Thanksgiving Day, and that means it's Half Price Day at most major self-service junkyard chains! Yes, after a hard day pulling parts (and, in my case, wielding a camera), you'll be able to scarf down that turkey with extra gusto. And so, in honor of holiday junkyarding, I'm sharing a sampling of some of my Little Trees In Junked Cars series of photographs, each image radiating meaning the way a polonium/beryllium fissile-core initiator radiates neutrons. You really will find one in every car, kid. You'll see. Now make the jump to see the complete gallery. More »
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Our last Mystery Car/Little Tree Schwag contest had a winner in the first .006 seconds, in spite of only 337 examples of the Toyota 2000GT ever being manufactured. Oh yes, our readers know their cars, no doubt about it. But how about car innards? How about taking a shot at identifying a car using a blurry photograph of its innards scattered across a sheet of plywood? We're not fooling ourselves here- one of you is already jumping up and down and yelling "Ooooh! Oooh!" at this point, but at least we're trying something different. More »
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It took a couple long, agonizing days for our loyal readers to identify our last Mystery Car, a '54 Fiat 8V, so this time we're going with something a little less cruel; someone is going to start yelling "Ooh! Ooh!" and jumping up and down pretty soon after seeing this very distinctive component... we think. Better move fast if it's you, because we got us a righteous prize package for y'all this time! More »
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So after I posted the inspiring Fresh As A Junkyard Breeze Little Tree Air Freshener Movie last week, I got a pleasant email from a marketing manager at the Little Tree Air Freshener Empire Headquarters. It turns out they're watching us closely for our opinions of their fine line of tree-shaped automotive air fresheners, which means we're important tastemakers now! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=306434&view=rss&microfeed=true As some of you might remember, I like to photograph Little Tree air fresheners in junkyard cars. Not long ago, I was at a local self-service yard located right at the very edge of San Francisco Bay, and the wind was howling cold and lonesome off the water and through the picked-over corpses of the cars. That's when I spotted this 80s Cadillac with a "New Car Smell" Little Tree twisting in the wind. So I had to film it. You'll find one in every car, kid. You'll see. More »
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