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    Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!

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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    03/22/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    Clunkbucket. Awesome. Its like he snuck into my backyard. This one's getting a bookmark.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    03/22/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    I gotta say, I love "that side" of cars more than all this interwebz bitching about the handling of cars we've never driven or the appearance of plastics we've only seen through our screens.


    No one can deny the awesomeness of a good (hellish?) project car.

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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/21/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    Well, I guess it's a good thing I'm unemployed. Otherwise my productivity would be going through the floor.
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    Image of Bumblebee Bumblebee
    03/21/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    Glad to see Lieberman is writing somewhere. He disappeared from autofiends.com, as did nearly everyone else.
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    Image of Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp
    03/21/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    Great. I needed to spend MORE of my time intertubing. Thanks, Murilee & Bumbeck.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/21/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    Oh, and as for the site link to Clunkbucket? Let's see, I could go to Lowe's today to get the rest of the stuff for the drywall fix, which I won't finish for weeks, and will leave me annoyed, or I can go to Clunkbucket and follow Murilee today...Hmmm, what shall I do? I think I need the choice with the positive reinforcement.


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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/21/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee:


    LOL. Goddammit!


    I don't mind spraying the work keyboard with coffee from time to time, as replacements are free, but that one made me spray coffee on my home keyboard.


    Where can I send the bill for a new Mac keyboard?

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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/21/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: Try Gawker's Cotomer Sevis director, Helen Hunt.
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    03/21/09

    @Mike the Dog will work for a Preview Button!: Helen Hunt? Mmmm, she can sevis my cotomer anytime.



    And Novaload, that's awesome. That's a T-shirt/bumpersticker design if I ever saw one.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/21/09

    @Slantsick, with Infinite Improbability Drive: Not exactly what I meant, but she'll do (if she'll do me that is).
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/21/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    This? He got you this? 1/24? OK, but it's not true love until he brings you a matching real one that "just needs a little work."


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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/21/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    Hey, it's what Jalopnik used to be!
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/21/09

    @FurtiveParsnip:


    Is not Jalopnik the sum of all of us, changing through the years as we do?


    This is perhaps not the same place that I began quietly stalking about five years ago, but I still love it just as much.

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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    03/21/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    That's gonna be an awesome site. And bothBumbeck and Leaveatip contributing means pure gold. Looks like it's time to push the ol' command-D for another site. Geez, how am I going to get anything done around here?


    Scheet!

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    Image of Iron-Balls Minardi Iron-Balls Minardi
    03/21/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    This is the best news I've read all week. Yeah, the Camaro first drive was cool, but Super Potential!! and a Loverman sighting is the win.
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    Image of elwood elwood
    03/21/09

    @Iron-Balls McGinty: Man, I really miss the old Jalopnik. It used to be cool to admit that you thought Mitsubishis and Toyotas could be cool. Now, you just get laughed at if you're not a Big 3 fanboy.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/21/09

    @elwood: I sure as hell hope no one around here doesn't recognise the appeal of early Celicas, early Corollas, the Starlet, every Supra, every MR-2, any FJ (yes, even the new one), etc., and the Galant VR-4, the 3000GT, any pre-V6 Eclipse, not to mention the Evo... You don't have to like them, just understand why someone might, and you will not incur my wrath.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    03/21/09

    @A promenading performer: Who doesn't love the products of the age when cool Japanese vehicles were the rule rather than the exception?
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    03/21/09

    @elwood: Aside from the Evo, neither of those companies currently make anything interesting. Right now, Ford and GM (who used to be just as boring as Toyota currently is) are actually building interesting cars.


    Now, old Toyotas, Mitsus, Hondas... yes, they can most definitely be cool.

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    Image of elwood elwood
    03/21/09

    @something_unique_and_descripti...: GT-R, 370Z, WRX STi, Evo. Plenty of cool cars coming out of the Far East. Unfortunately, Toyota and Honda don't have any cool car competitors at the moment, but I imagine once the economic climate turns around, we'll see an entry from the both of them on the performance car front.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/21/09

    @elwood: I'd wager, also, for the IS-F, all Infinitis save the QX and maybe EX, maybe the Acura RL, probably all of Mazda...
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    Image of elwood elwood
    03/22/09

    @A promenading performer: That's right, I forgot about the IS-F. I think the IS350 is a sharp car too. And while not quite as cool as the FD RX-7's, the RX-8 is a pretty sweet machine. The Miata is also good, and the penultimate hot hatch, the Mazdaspeed 3. The Japanese companies really get a bum rap around here.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/22/09

    @elwood: Yeah, I like the IS in general. I wish the 350 came with a manual, and neither drives as well as the IS 300 (okay, Altezza) did nor has the intrinsic smoothness of the 300's inline-6, but they're handsome.


    The only modern Mazda I've driven is the CX-9. It handles as sharply as a G35. If Mazda's bulkiest offering can drive as well as a legitimate 3-series competitor, then they're doing it right.

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    Image of contender★ contender★
    03/21/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    Hmm. Murilee, might you consider moonlighting there during the week?


    I am glad Jonny turned up somewhere, I haven't been interested in autofiends since his mysterious departure.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    03/21/09

    @contender: He's also at Speed:Sport:Life.
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    Image of Jonny Lieberman Jonny Lieberman
    03/21/09

    @contender: Sorry. Instead of a raise, I was offered a 2/3rds pay cut. So I walked.


    Er, ran.

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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    03/21/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    Only Murilopnik would leave me searching for Starions on a Saturday morning.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/21/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    Oh, my god, the Starlet and the Starion, back in the spotlight... it feels like seeing an old girlfriend for the first time in two years, and you end up getting back together for a while, but it's never quite the same.


    Sigh...

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/21/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    Nice site. The door panel removal piece outclasses the one that was on Jalopnik about a week ago...
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    Image of BTLFED BTLFED
    03/21/09

    In reply to Junkyard Hero Mike Bumbeck Lowers The Internet's Property Values, We Rejoice: Clunkbucket!
    I'll have to check that out. I just scanned through that site and it looks pretty cool.


    And maybe I'm not completely awake, or missing my breakfast scotch, but what is that white car in the middle of that picture? An old Civic?


    I NEED that car in my life.

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    Image of Andy Wallwhore- I know, everybody's funny, ...now you kinda funny too. Andy Wallwhore- I know, everybody's funny, ...now you kinda funny too.
    03/21/09

    @BTLFED doesn't want Deartháir to leave: Yeah, I think it's a Honda S600, though I could be wrong. And Hells yes I would love to have one rotting, er parked in my lot.
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    03/21/09

    @andy_wallwhore: Yes, that's a 600. It graces one of So-Cal's wonderful U-Pull-Em junk yards.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/21/09

    @BTLFED doesn't want Deartháir to leave: Close. It's a Honda N600 (I think).
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