How The Hell Did Someone Register A Holden Ute In New York?

We have a bit of an El Camino fetish here. Anytime someone mentions the prospect of it coming back to America, we get all hot and bothered and have dirty dreams for weeks. Alas, GM never makes it happen and we have to lust after our Holden driving friends in Australia.

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This Guy Tattooed 'Because Racecar' On His Chest

Tattoos: they can be classy, they can be tragic, and they can be on your butthole. Check out this guy, though, that put the great Jalopnik-created car meme "because racecar" right on his chest, where the Internet will always see it.

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Eight Ways Baby Boomers Changed Society With Their Cars

As the Baby Boomer generation continues its inexorable march toward the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, the AARP is taking a close look at the impacts America's biggest generation has had and is still having on U.S. culture and transportation since the Woodstock Festival.

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The Kind Of People You Find At A License Plate Swap Meet

Ask yourself which sort of car related club would be the most broad based and have a wide and varied membership. Hot rods? Orphaned cars? Microcars. Not surprisingly, it's the one that focuses on something that you will find on almost every vehicle on the road – license plates.

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Let's Find This Dying Teen a '72 Chevelle

Making vast, sweeping generalizations about wildly diverse groups of people is rarely a good idea, but I'm going to do it anyway: gearheads are good people. Sure, car people can be clickish, argumentative, stubborn, and pedantic, but every time we've reported on or put a call out to our readers to help someone in need, …

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This Is What Happens When You Try To Randomly Join A Classic Car Race

Palermo, Sicily — My grandfather grew up in Sicily, and I've been listening to his stories about watching the Targa Florio and Mille Miglia for years. I thought those legendary Gran Tourismo races had long ago gone the way of the dodo, but I thought wrong.

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One Man's Quest For The Ultimate Porsche 911 Collection

Dreadlocked Magnus Walker does not fit in with Porsche's modern image. Neither do his cars. He has one of the greatest collections of classic air-cooled 911s there is, and he's sharing them with the world in one short film.

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These Turkish Car Enthusiasts Kind Of Look Like Their Cars

This is Atatürk Oto San and his 1991 TransAm. Think they look alike? In his photographic series, "Facade," Korhan Karaoysal has documented Turkish car enthusiasts with their customized cars, allowing the owners to select their own backdrops.

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Italians Are Now Buying More Bicycles Than Cars

For the first time in many decades, Italians are buying more bicycles than cars. Over the last year, new car registration plummeted by 20 percent, while bicycle sales increased by 10 percent. Last year's score was bicycles, 1.75 million; cars, 1.74 million.

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Will Hipsters Keep The Peugeot Legend Alive In America?

There's a whole generation of American car enthusiasts out there who have very limited experience with Peugeots, and that gap is growing. The French automaker, which is big pretty much everywhere in the world except North America, dropped out of the US market in 1991.

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