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Dakar Rally Rescheduled to Central Europe, Next Year in South America!
After the 2008 Dakar Rally was canceled in January due to security threats, everyone wondered if and when it would return. A few days ago, this years' race was confirmed to run from April 20 to 26 in sections of Central Europe. The 3000-kilometer race will start in Budapest, head east the Romanian city of Sovata, then head back to Hungary and finish in the town of Balatonfured. That is news on its own, but the bigger more interesting news is the 2009 Rally. More »
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Women, Money, Power... or a Renault Clio?
So you're a young Argentinian dude and you find your Renault in a bit of a pickle, road-safety-wise. Señor Prince of Darkness offers you what sounds like a pretty sweet deal. Do you take it? The Clio isn't anywhere near as cool as the '65 Rambler Rogue-based Renault Torino, so maybe the Evil One will throw in a couple of them in on the deal!
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The Argentinean Mercedes 240 of Produce
This relic of Argentina's Dirty War era may once have carried movie stars, heads of state or even racing drivers. Now, alas, its hydraulically operating doors only provide cover for street produce. Actually, the long, long wheelbase 240, workhorse of South American taxidom during the malaise era, is a perfect carrier and displayer of such wares, though word is the ghosts of "disappeared" dissidents have been known to sneak an apple when the boss isn't looking. [Thanks to a tipster whose original e-mail I lost, and who should send another right away for proper credit.]
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Taunus as Toro
Although it's only one letter off from the iconic jellybean-shaped 1980s family phenom recently reborn with Dave on its face, the Ford Taunus was named after a mountain range. Nevertheless, this Argentine Ford spot seems to indicate that the charging Taunus was equally at home playing either bull or matador. And no, it did most certainly did not come pre-loaded with a set of Pavement eight-tracks, as both Malkmus and Cosloy were still in short pants. More »
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More Argentinean Falconly Goodness
OK, it wasn't the fault of those poor green Falcons that the death squads drove them during Argentina's Guerra Sucia; I mean, we don't hate the ZIL just because Beria's thugs had a fleet of them in the Lubyanka parking lot, do we? Of course not. So head over to the lovingly obsessive Todo Falcon site in Argentina, where you'll find endless photographs, scanned driver's manuals, and (if you can read Spanish) interesting info about the '62 Falcon That Time Forgot. More »
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In Argentina, car buyers could score themselves a new mid-60s Rambler clone- in the form of the Renault Torino- well into the 80s. But the Torino was a flash in the pan next to the Argentinean Ford Falcon, which was based on the early-60s US Falcon and was still rolling off the assembly line into the 90s (though it received some grille updates, it was still a '62 at heart). More »
Piense Fuerte. Piense Ford Falcon.
In Argentina, car buyers could score themselves a new mid-60s Rambler clone- in the form of the Renault Torino- well into the 80s. But the Torino was a flash in the pan next to the Argentinean Ford Falcon, which was based on the early-60s US Falcon and was still rolling off the assembly line into the 90s (though it received some grille updates, it was still a '62 at heart). More »
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What in the Name of Ferrucio? The Lamborghini Alar 777
When we were a junior-high-aged Jalopnik, a teacher of ours said that if we could identify every reference in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" by the next morning, we would be free from certain homework assignments for the rest of the year. We accomplished this feat. (Bear in mind that this was in the days before we had the internet on either side of our head.) And she went back on the deal, assumedly not to encourage a young Jalopnik's smart-assiness. The license plate on her Le Baron convertible read "ALON," which was her first name spelled backwards. We then started refering to her as "Alar" behind her back — an agricultural product shown to cause tumors in laboratory mice. We think this Diablo-based custom Lamborghini would cause tumors in both rodents and K Cars alike. Autoblog's got the specifics. We're going for the Kaopectate. More »
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Rambler Rogue? No, Renault Torino!
One of the cars in the above illustration is a '79 Renault Torino, while the other is a '65 Rambler American. Notice any similarities? The story of the Renault Torino isn't just the usual case of a US automaker selling the tooling for an obsolete model to a South American manufacturer, nor was it a simple re-badging of a US model for license-building abroad. No, the Torino is the result of an early chapter in the twisty tale of the Renault-AMC story, which resulted in a unique-to-Argentina vehicle, based on the Rambler American Rogue but with body redesigned by Pininfarina and a Kaiser-designed engine under the hood. The Torino became a legend in Argentina, selling like crazy and having a fair bit of racing success, including a major N rburgring triumph in 1969. Torino production halted in 1982, a dark year for car freaks in Argentina. More »
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Before Operation Condor: The Dodge GTX in Argentina
During the early 1970s in Argentina, before a Per n returned to the president's chair, before that Per n was succeeded by his popular but weak-willed wife, and before that wife was thrown from office by a military junta that would regularly use "disappear" as a transitive verb, a "Dodge GTX" could be had. It was so fast, it could deliver a forgotten ring on the occasion of a friend's wedding. Let's just hope the friend didn't turn out to be a dissident. [Thanks to Martin for the tip.] More »
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Horacio Alger: Pagani's Philiosophy
Horacio Pagani started out as the son of Argentine bakers. We wish this stupid cop-chopper would stop circling. Seriously, po-pos, either catch the perp or go home. Sheesh. Anyway, Mister Pagani, like many insane visionaries, bootstrapped himself by building trailers and racing cars. Er. Racing cars. Er, well, whatever. Anyway, if you can wade through the purple ESL prose of the linked piece, it's an interesting look at the man's ideas about automotive design and construction. Meanwhile, we're about to reach for our revolver. Really. Stop circling, dammit! More »
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The Canopied Hearsachero!
While reader Tony was visiting Iguaz Falls at the Argentine/Brazilian border, he ran across this automotive anomaly in Puerto Iguaz , Argentina. Not a flower car, but not yet a woman, the Hearsachero was apparently designed to allow hastily-and-not-always-correctly embalmed bodies to air out during the funeral procession in an effort to keep the driver from being overcome by the noxious fumes of decomposing flesh exacerbated by South American heat. We're quite sorry if we just pulled a Cannibal Corpse on your evening. You might try playing some Bread or Jim Croce to cleanse the palate. More »
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The Go-Anywhere Ford Falcon...From Argentina!
Reader Martin grew up in Argentina and tossed us over this link to a classic Argentine Ford Falcon ad. According to him, the updates to the South American Falcon were primarily cosmetic, rather than the full do-overs the Australians heaped on the machine over the years. Oh, and Dr. Wilson, we hope you'll note, the Falcon doesn't try to jump the railroad crossing in the ad. More »
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