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  • Professional Hoon of the Day: Russ Swift

    The Joie Chitwood of the UK, Russ Swift, knows a thing or forty about car control. So, naturally, Clarkson enlists him in an attempt to destroy an Austin Metro without actually killing it. Watch and all will become clear. – Davey G. Johnson

    3:30 PM on Fri Dec 15 2006, by Davey G. Johnson, 228 views, Comment

  • Russ Swift in a Landie

    Here at tha Jalop, we greatly admire the mad skills of Russ Swift, a man who may well be the United Kingdom's premier workin'-it-for-a-living hoon. Here he swaps his customary Mini for a Landie and keeps the high-CG sucker delicately balanced on...

    10:30 PM on Wed Jul 11 2007, by Davey G. Johnson, 395 views, Comment

  • Russ Meyer, Breast Man and Car Nut, Dead at 82

    Russ Meyer, master of the 1960s hot-chicks-and-hotrods movie genre died at his home in the Hollywood Hills this past Saturday. He was 82. Meyer's classic films, including, "Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!" and "Vixen," featured several hundred...

    11:24 AM on Wed Sep 22 2004, by Mike Spinelli, 402 views

  • Bleed for the Dancer: Clarkson on the 2CV

    We posted the brilliant precision-driving-in-a-parking garage/death of an Austin clip from Clarkson's Heaven and Hell video a while back, but just fast forward to 5:24 if you've already seen it. According to Clarkson, the 2CV "Was built from used...

    1:15 AM on Sat Jan 27 2007, by Davey G. Johnson, 680 views, Comment

  • Badass Neck-Snapping Chicks Prefer The 356

    Forget Janis Joplin's psychedelic 356- it's Tura Satana's Porsche in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! that we all remember now when we think of mid-60s Porsches...

    6:40 PM on Tue Mar 20 2007, by Murilee Martin, 9,951 views, Comment

  • East Bay Man Bums Out Neighbors With Too Many Cars

    You know, in a way, we feel sorry for Russ Daniels, a guy who has 20 cars and lives in San Leandro, California, just south of Oakland. If he feels like his neighbors are out to get him, well, they are. They're tired of Daniels' taking up the...

    6:33 PM on Thu Feb 9 2006, by Davey G. Johnson, 71 views, Comment

  • Now Serving Popcorn, Candy, and Purple Microdots At The Drive-In!

    Sadly, the drive-in movie theater has all but disappeared from the American landscape (though Joe Bob Briggs is still going strong). I was fortunate enough to work at the ticket booth at Alameda's Island Auto Movie during its final year, and I...

    2:00 PM on Fri Oct 26 2007, by Murilee Martin, 755 views, Comment

  • More Kenosha Iron: The 1965-66 AMC Marlin

    Sometimes mistaken for an early Dodge Charger, the fastback AMC Rambler Marlin hit the street in 1965, a year before the Dodge. Based on the Rambler Classic, most Marlins had 270-horse 327 V8s and all had seats that folded down to form a bed (a...

    2:30 PM on Mon Feb 26 2007, by Murilee Martin, 1,760 views, Comment

  • Mini-O-Rama: October Celebration of Issigonis' Masterpiece

    Aficionados of Sir Alec Issigonis' most enduring design should head for the Heritage Motor Centre in Warwickshire, England, October 2nd for a celebration of all things Mini. Despite the fact that the brand's been usurped (and unfortunately been...

    12:11 PM on Wed Aug 10 2005, by Davey G. Johnson, 109 views

  • Arizona Businessman Banks on Hydrogen, Students

    Retired Phoenix patent attorney Russ Voorhees is all up in the Crown Vic action as a way to save the planet. As our neighbors to the north might say, "Eh?" Here's the deal: Voorhees picks up CNG-powered Vickies at municipal auctions and then...

    12:10 PM on Tue Oct 11 2005, by Davey G. Johnson, 2,242 views