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    The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug

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    02/23/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    slow clap


    Love it. Takes me back to my '74 Celica. Damn, I feel a craigslist mission in the works. I always thought that Celica, named "Tom", deserved an 18RG to match some power to its mini-Pony looks.

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    02/23/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    "..BUT I GOT ZE CRYSTAL BALL!!!..."
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    02/22/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    There was planning for a Herbie movie that included a bad guy car called Hector the Hate Bug.


    Just so you know.


    Buick wheels, crazy. I'm amazed your head is still screwed on front-way 'round.

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    02/22/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    I think I've found my very own Hubert:

    [denver.craigslist.org]



    Man, look at those wikkid rims! The seller says that it runs "very good," it's three different colors of primer (plus rust!), it's parked in an ominous-looking wooded part of Wheatridge, CO, and can be mine for $1900! Now, how much spare cash do I have? $2.37, a bottle cap, and two buttons, is that all? Damn, foiled again.
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    Image of ZZMarcus ZZMarcus
    02/22/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    ...and then I saw the ZoSo. Murilee, If you made a cologne I would wear it.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    02/22/09

    @ZZMarcus: How about a car air-freshener shaped like a carburetor, scented with gasoline?
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    02/22/09

    @Murilee Martin: There should be one in every car. You see.
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    02/23/09

    @Murilee Martin: Or fresh tires! Yum! I also have a fetish for an old carbed V8 when it first fires up and you're standing anywhere near the rear. It smells like VICTORY!
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    02/22/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    A wonderful and entertaining story from Murilee's youth and his early days of hoonage. And yet, he manages to hold us all at arm's length and maintain his aura of mystery...


    Anyone else notice how he cleverly altered the inscription on his yearbook picture...

    "Dear _____,

    "We still have to execute a (blah, blah, blah)..."


    We know him, and yet we don't know him. How very Clark Kent and/or Peter Parker...

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    02/22/09

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: Yep; noticed that too. Nice Photoshop skilz demonstration. Didn't leave a single clue for us, did he.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    02/23/09

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: It's fun having a pseudonym- it's like being a secret agent (though I started using one here because I didn't want my day-job boss at the time to realize that I had other jobs).
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    02/22/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    Murilee, this is the reason why the truly hardcore Jalops tune in. Great story, and one that most anyone else on the web can't duplicate. I hope to hell that Ray keeps you on because this site needs these types of postings.


    To all the other readers: Can you believe we have gone 2 weeks worth of no DOTS, no PCH, no odd ad campaigns, and relatively little LeMons, at least during the week. It's a wonder we aren't having any withdrawal symptoms. I'm so glad that Murilopnik (Murlopnik?) weekends are happening. The rest of the car blogging community is also about as bland as Wonder White bread. (Rob, you didn't read that last line.....)

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    02/22/09

    @UDMan: And because of this story, I think I'll do a posting on my first car, a 1966 Corvair Monza Convertible..... Followed by a 1966 Rambler American Sedan.
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    02/22/09

    @UDMan: Amen to it... It's nice getting back to a different jalopnik full of rust, random debauchery, and old cars. And look, it's the commenter base we all know and love, not the rabid week-day commenters.


    Murilee, I enjoy you more on the weekends..

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    02/22/09

    @UDMan: I dunno man, I've had a little bit of withdrawal. Or maybe it was that wikkid Heat Transfer test I had the other day. I'm still reeling from that intellectual whuppin'.
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    02/22/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    Did anyone else get a Earl Hindmanesque vibe from the yearbook picture?



    All kidding aside, I think Murilee is an older version of me. A better version, in some respects. I wanted a Beetle or a VW Bus when I got my license. I grew up in SoCal and they were everywhere. After the family mechanic told my dad about how leaky the engines could be the kaibash was put on my VW dream.


    Then when my grandpa died when I was a senior in high school my grandma offered me his 1968 Chevrolet C10 pickemup truck. I knew it needed work, but I wanted it. I had grown up with that truck and wanted to return it to its former glory. My dad, once again, pulled the rug out from under that plan. His reasoning was something along the lines of the truck needed a lot of work and I was going away to college and he didn't want it sitting in his driveway for 5 years.


    Now I'm all grown up. I should be able to get one of the small British cars I lust after, but I bought a house that needed some work. So now I'm stuck in Project House Hell.


    Maybe some day the winds of fortune will turn against me and land me in Project Car Hell. I can't wait for that day.

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    02/22/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    Very cool story, Murilee. I've often said that upholstered interiors are nothing but unnecessary extra weight.


    BTW, did you photoshop your first name out of that yearbook photo? Why the secrecy; do you have outstanding warrants or something?

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    02/22/09

    @discontinuuity: His face is some-what blurry. Can't tell if he's man, woman, or machine.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/22/09

    @discontinuuity: His name is out there; you just have to look. Or buy a shirt.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    02/22/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    Hey, is that a Capri in the background of the Hubert/Herbie yearbook photo?
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    02/22/09

    @Murilee Martin: And what's the wagon behind the Capri?
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    02/22/09

    @Murilee Martin: I want to know more about that wagon!
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    02/22/09

    @Murilee Martin: @Schm-san, SHO-time, fo-SHO.: I'm sticking with my original guess, 1968-70 Dodge Coronet or Plymouth Belvedere.
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    02/22/09

    @Slant,sick with the DOTS DTs: For instance:
    May be wishful thinking, but that looks like the same profile to me.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    02/23/09

    @Slant,sick with the DOTS DTs: I think you are really close, because of the rear window vents and the different angles on each pillar. That's your basic MoPar eccentricity there.
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    02/22/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    This is like the Herby with a pack of cigarettes under his sleeve.


    You know it can fuck somebody up.

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    Image of bzr bzr
    02/22/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    Regarding Beetles: when I was a kid, I saw The Love Bug on TV, the made-for-TV Disney version from 1997. That movie actually managed to give me the heebie-jeebies (that's right bitches, I said "heebie-jeebies!"), primarily because of the evil Love Bug, Horace the Hate Bug.



    Your story reminded me of him, and how I rooted for him instead of the lovey-dovey wimpy Herbie instead.

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    02/22/09

    @bzr used the word carpocalypse on a college paper: Why did you have to post that? Now I have the Herbie Jeebies!


    But I would so rock that.

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    02/22/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    Great story Murilee. I went to high school here in Michigan at about the same time, and oddly enough my friends looked a lot like yours...
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    Image of highmileage highmileage
    02/22/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    Outstanding story. Brings back my mispent youth full of burning RX-2s, slalom and autocross Celicas and weekends hip-deep in the latest automotive project. I'm still kicking myself for not picking up my neighbours 4-4-2 that he offered to sell for $120. Damn.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    02/22/09

    @highmileage: I'm sure there are plenty of 17-year-olds doing similar stuff today, and they'll be reminiscing 25 years later about the '85 Tredia Turbo they traded for a Playstation.
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    02/22/09

    @Murilee Martin: Especially if it was a 4wd Tredia...
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    02/22/09

    In reply to The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
    Murilee, your story's also reminded me of this (ultimately unsuccessful) bank robber I used to know. He was prone to cogitate at length on the sorrowful subject: "The Cause of My Downfall" at some length. But then, he'd been granted the gift of time. A little like how a dragstrip run or an accident can seem like an eternity. I think you would have liked him.


    Now tell us more. About anything.

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