<![CDATA[Comments from Impalamino]]> <![CDATA[Comments from Impalamino]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Project Car Hell, Low And Slow Edition: 1964 Impala or 1949 Mercury Trio?]]> "Jose Jimenez"? Sounds a little fishy.

Combined with the AM radio ads I've been hearing lately, I'm pretty sure this ad was posted by Armando Montelongo. You didn't think your show on TLC would last forever, did you? Not with your wife's tastes...you will soon be divorced and she will marry a foreclosure officer from the bank. It's the "hot" thing right now.

Sorry, 'Mando Man. Good luck with your six-four.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Emerson Fittipaldi To Pace 2008 Detroit Grand Prix in E85 Corvette Z06]]> E85 all over Iowa as well. 'Course, we've been using ethanol (E10) for decades now. Subsidized and usually $.10-.20 cheaper than regular.

I've seen a few E85 pumps in Michigan as well.

Let's not get into an argument about where your "tax dollars" are going...

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on 2009 Acura TL Caught In Natural Habitat, The Golf Course]]> @NovaloadMissesPolar: I was thinking "Type-Ass." And not the kind of ass you used to see on those "Haulin' Ass" posters with three girls in the bed of a pickup truck.

When I worked at the Lexus dealership on "premium row," I would occasionally walk over to the Acura parts counter for filters and stuff for used cars. The place was always eerily empty. Like, really empty. I wanted to work there.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on 2010 Chevrolet Camaro Official Pics And Press Release]]> @ripismoney: Or the motivation to wonder if they have traveled through a wormhole into 1993. Then again, if that's your only complaint, MaxBob is doing something right.

Chevrolet, I cannot be objective about the products you offer, and I am not alone. Thank you for appealing to my irrational emotional bond with vehicles. Please exploit me and millions of others on your way to insane profitability.

/not sarcasm

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on The Ten Worst Production Car Color Combinations]]> @thepassenger: Saw one of these in the flesh at the Dearborn swap meet this weekend. For sale, too.

Also saw a beautiful Continental Mark II parked right next to a Continental Mark IV. Both in sinister black.

Mark II was going for $20K. Interior was rough. Considered cashing out my mutual funds.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on First Driving Video Of The New Chevy Camaro!]]> Completely unrelated but equally awesome (wait until about :45):

(OK, I would rock this in my Camaro on Woodward)

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]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on First Driving Video Of The New Chevy Camaro!]]> @graverobber- Two BEER minimum: I second that!

/Jeff Healey

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Video Of Milka Duno Towel-Snapping Danica Patrick, After 60 Long Minutes, Finally Surfaces]]> @Strokke: YouPorn search: "bowel-snapping"

/complete

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Worst Golf Scores Or Worst Video Game? You Decide]]> You can't expect any sequel to live up to the brilliance that was the original Cheetahmen. I mean, c'mon.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Iowa's Defense Has Promising Speed]]> @Spectacular Sam: As compared to who? LSU?

@Sid Bream Was Out: The Pita Pit is in Iowa City, where the officers are primarily young former petty criminals who wear the tightest uniforms possible. And ride around on Segways. Ego trippin' like Prime Minister Pete Nice.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Project Car Hell, Graverobber Edition: 1970 Cougar or 1972 Torino?]]> "You put on your seatbelt."

My favorite line. Killer story.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Toothless Old Guy Builds 50 MPG Engine-Powered Tricycle, CNN Thinks It's Newsworthy]]> You know where he got that motor? He got that motor at Harbor Freight. "Central Machinery" one of their many "American-sounding-yet-Chinese-built" tool/parts brands. Pittsburgh is another one.

Clearly this man is Rawley LeBay from "Christine." No doubt in my mind.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Red Bull Drifting World Championship Announced, Beijing Olympics Now Forgotten]]> @Tomsk: Should have been sponsored by Powerthirst.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on 1977 Ford F250]]> @Searcher: Early version of Aerial Google Street View. Planes followed it.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Blacked-Out Vortech-Supercharged Challenger Gives Us The Vapors]]> @tonyorlandondawn: Nobody beats the Biz.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Jalopnik Visits Hennesey Performance: Track Addicts, The Corvette ZR1 And Lexus IS-F]]> @Morphine: With whaleskin hubcaps! And little baby seal eyes for headlights!

...Also, during the Gulf War I was sitting on the couch sporting a six-foot erection with a cheeseburger on the tip.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Oh, Say Does That Car-Spangled Banner Yet Wave Over Jalopnik's Day Of Auto Flag-Elation?]]> Christ. Philosophy.

/Hammered on sulphurous fumes

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Oh, Say Does That Car-Spangled Banner Yet Wave Over Jalopnik's Day Of Auto Flag-Elation?]]> @Tomsk: Try new life philosphy.

Excelsior!

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Prius Owner Achieves Infinite Mileage With Minor Tweak]]> @wkiernan: 'complacency, egocentricity, pedanticism, self-satisfaction, smugness.'

"best-of-breed technological tour de force"? Sounds like a Prius owner to me.

Perhaps you would have better luck posting on a Prius forum. I'm not sure you belong here.

P.S. those of us in the market for pleasure craft do not consider boats that require outboard motors up to snuff. We own Grosse Pointe cottages with boathouses, no trailer required.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on The Sign Of The Cat...Under The Flag]]> @boosted-lego-wagon: I believe that car made judicious use of al-oo-min-ee-um.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on It's Like A Three Stooges Bit, But With Cars]]> @LandofMinos, That pissed and muted look: MOLD-A-RAMA!

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Prius Owner Achieves Infinite Mileage With Minor Tweak]]> @spenc938: Really? You've never had the urge to push it? Obvious Kramer reference aside, I rolled my '95 Camry (yes, most Un-Jalop vehicle ever) from Ann Arbor, MI, to Iowa City, IA one time. It was astounding. One tank of gas with the A/C on the whole time. Best mileage I ever had; I thought the gauge was broken. I almost hoped I would run out, just so I could point at the trip odometer and blow the mind of some hapless tow driver. When I finally filled up at the service station I worked at at the time, my boss told me I had a "glow"---kinda like a pregnant woman, or someone who just got some much-needed action. I then proceeded to do a Toyota leap in the parking lot. Freeze Frame!

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on 2010 Lexus RX Spotted Prepping For The Ring]]> Finally, something new for the REAL soccer moms, who for years have been forced to deal with the "icky" mothers from the manufactured home villages and their used '99 RX300s.

Lexus makes me want to vomit. Probably because I worked at a Lexus dealership for three months. Worst job in history. Worse than cleaning up old people. Fuck the "privileged".

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on The 1981 Mustang Runs On White Powder!]]> 34 mpg? Sure!*

*Only when fueled with a 50/50 ethyl/Tab mixture.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on DOTS-O-Rama Sunday: Vauxhall VX220]]> I'd like to second what junkman said, and kindly request that every Sunday become a DOTS-o-rama. I don't think I'm alone in thinking that it's the best feature on Jalop, or that there can never be too much. Thanks, Murilee & contributors.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on DOTS-O-Rama Sunday: 1967 Plymouth Sport Fury III]]> @girraffesack: From the look of the houses? In my mind, every single street in California looks like this. All of them.

/transparent midwesterncy

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on DOTS-O-Rama Sunday: B&Z Electric Car Electra King]]> Landau, baby. Landau.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on DOTS-O-Rama Sunday: Fiat 500 Abarth]]> A Barth? Hell, I haven't seen a Barth since "You Can't Do That On Television" went off the air in '88. Good to see him again, even if it is a clone.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on 2009 Ford Flex, First Drive]]> Please tell me you were test-driving this on North Territorial in northwest Washtenaw county. And that you were filming it using a guy sitting in the back of a late-model Tahoe with the hatch open. Because if that's the case, I totally saw this going down.

I've been seeing a bunch of camo'd Caddies in that area lately as well....looks like a coupe or some kind of weird mini-wagon. Fleet of at least two with support vehicles.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on That Chevy Badge Is Going To Fool Many, Many People]]> You have to admit he did a great job masking the windows and the headlight bezels before he dropped that sweet rattle can job on it.

It's awesome, and I desperately want it.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on What Black Women Want: Toyota Espionage]]> Toyota be triflin'.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on 1985 Alfa Romeo Graduate, With Bonus Italian DOTS Poll]]> @monsterajr: Fix It Again, Antonio...

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Detroit Cop Struck In Second Accident While Investigating First]]> From the angle of the cop-cam, it at least looks like he wasn't pulling a typical Michigan (especially MSP) move of sticking the ass of his cruiser WAY out in traffic. I've thought about the physics of this practice many times, and it seems to me that there is NO advantage to parking at a 45 degree angle on the side of the road. And yet, it seems to be protocol with Michigan law enforcement. Do they WANT to get their cruisers rear-ended?

Oh, and fuck the police, also. Very much.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on 1985 Toyota Supra]]> The librarian/computer person at my elementary school had one of these. She was about 55 and dowdy as all hell, and yet she drove a black w/gold graphics Supra. This was in the late 80s, so it was still pretty cherry. I seem to remember it having the rear window louver things...no idea if that was a stock item or not.

In a lot full of teacher's cars, that Supra stood out like a sore thumb. I thought it was totally awesome. WAY cooler than my mom's '80 Impala. These days I'd take either one...

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Commenter Of The Day: Perfect Strangers Edition]]> @mechimike: See, the problem is, those retards at Home Depot don't know the difference between a long ton, a short ton, and a fuck ton. Morons.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Commenter Of The Day: Two If By Sea Edition]]> Dee-luth, boss, Dee-luth!

I'll make an exception if he's from Deetroit and not Duhtroit.

The REO comment made it. Well done, sir.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Ford F-100 Coming In 2011?]]> I'm going to bandwagon the Rangerhate going on here. I'm driving one for work at the moment, putting about 200 miles a day on it. It's a 2005 standard cab auto with the 3.0 and little else. I can honestly say that this truck is the biggest piece of shit I've ever driven, and it's only got 75K on the odo. Frankly, it feels much worse than a mid-80s S10, Nissan, or Toyota. Honestly, I'm stunned that Ford is even making this vehicle...it's a travesty.

Apparently Ford forgot the old Model T lesson: the same platform won't work forever. Listen to the ghost of Edsel!

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on SWAT Support Charity Car Show Mega Gallery]]> That low rider boattail Riv is tuff.

]]> <![CDATA[Impalamino commented on Commenter Of The Day: Wert Returns Edition]]> @Ben Wojdyla: @SundaySunday: Agreed. Detroit is not nearly as bad as most people have built it up to be. Frankly, I find downtown Detroit to be significantly less "frightening" than the south side of Chicago.

And yeah, the roads are probably some of the worst on earth considering the usage they get.

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