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Roadster Rods Or Kool Kustoms?
While the cars at the Billetproof show come in all sorts of old-skool flavors, there seem to be two ends of the spectrum: hot rod roadsters on one side, and kool kustoms on the other. We know the two don't always have to be mutually exclusive; after all, just look at some of the creations from Autorama Detroit. But the pure essence of each is pretty distinct. So, toward which pole does your compass point?More »
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Concours D'Ignorance May Be Greatest Idea In Auto Show History
Does the world really need an anti-Concours D'Elegance, something to celebrate everything horribly spectacular in the automobile world? Yes, yes, and yes! The genius behind the Billetproof car show (which will be happening in Davisburg, Michigan this weekend), Alan Galbraith, is at it again and proposing a new show to celebrate all that we Jalops hold dear — terrible, awful, laughably malaise-tastic and yet completely lovable cars from the past. Have a Gremlin, a Lebaron, or perhaps a Mustang II? You'll fit right in with this crowd of automotive offal. The greatest part so far — Alan has no idea when or where or how it's going to work. But we have a few ideas we'd like to pitch. More »
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We used to dream about bringing over a full-zoot Mitsubishi Debonair from Japan, but that was before we met this '72 Toyota Crown Super Saloon in the flesh at the Motoring J Style show last Saturday. The window curtains and super-luxurious interior are impressive enough, but then you open the trunk and find a factory-installed refrigerator! Imagine being the owner of a chain of mob-connected Tokyo strip clubs back in '72, being driven around in your Super Saloon while your kneecap-breaking heavies follow in a Corona Mark II! The owner of this Crown brought it over from Japan a couple years ago, and we're already pestering the Gawker Overlords to buy us one as our Official Jalopnik Staff car (sure, the Overlords ignored our entreaties when we demanded the '38 Peugeot 302, but we're not giving up!)
Curtains And A Refrigerator: 1972 Toyota Crown Super Saloon
We used to dream about bringing over a full-zoot Mitsubishi Debonair from Japan, but that was before we met this '72 Toyota Crown Super Saloon in the flesh at the Motoring J Style show last Saturday. The window curtains and super-luxurious interior are impressive enough, but then you open the trunk and find a factory-installed refrigerator! Imagine being the owner of a chain of mob-connected Tokyo strip clubs back in '72, being driven around in your Super Saloon while your kneecap-breaking heavies follow in a Corona Mark II! The owner of this Crown brought it over from Japan a couple years ago, and we're already pestering the Gawker Overlords to buy us one as our Official Jalopnik Staff car (sure, the Overlords ignored our entreaties when we demanded the '38 Peugeot 302, but we're not giving up!)
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It does our hearts good to see Japanese cars from the days before most of the weirdness got focus-grouped out of Nippon's automakers. That's why I was eager to head over to Vallejo for the Motoring J Style show on Saturday and check out what DSwig and his crew had put together this year. The unseasonable rain made life miserable for the drift guys, but it was good news for me- cloudy skies make for easy car photography. We'll be taking a closer look at a few of these cars later in the week, but for now let's get an overview of some vintage and not-so-vintage Japanese iron.
Bluebirds, Fairladies, Colts, And Crowns At The Motoring J Style Show
It does our hearts good to see Japanese cars from the days before most of the weirdness got focus-grouped out of Nippon's automakers. That's why I was eager to head over to Vallejo for the Motoring J Style show on Saturday and check out what DSwig and his crew had put together this year. The unseasonable rain made life miserable for the drift guys, but it was good news for me- cloudy skies make for easy car photography. We'll be taking a closer look at a few of these cars later in the week, but for now let's get an overview of some vintage and not-so-vintage Japanese iron. 
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Our Thirst For Vintage Japanese Iron To Be Slaked At Motoring J Style Show
We've been running into the Motoring J Style guys at the last few 24 Hours of LeMons races (their MR2 finished 3rd out of 90 at the most recent event), and they've got us all fired up about checking out some serious Japanese machinery at their big show in Vallejo this Saturday (as an added bonus, they've invited all 24 Hours of Lemons racers to bring their cars to the show). I'll be heading out to the show with Black Metal V8olvo teammate WhatWouldJesseDo in his '66 Datsun, and we hope to see the Jalopnik readership represented there. [Motoring J Style]
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Ecurie Ecrappe Shows LeMons Flag at the Concorso Italiano
One of the coolest cars at the 24 Hours of LeMons race at Altamont was #99, the 1971 Alfa Romeo Spider built and operated by Team Ecurie Ecrappe. This aerodynamically optimized Italian machine did very well at first, leading the pack for a while on the first day, but mechanical woes put it in 52nd place by the time the race ended. But that's not all there is to the story- it turns out Ecurie Ecrappe entered the car in the prestigious Concorso Italiano car show, where (we hope) it scandalized the date-coded, numbers-matching crowd.More »
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Down in the Grove at Bakersfield
A week has past since we drove into the drizzle with a 207 thousand plus miles econobox to get to Bakerfield for a drag race that also happened to be a swap meet and car show. The roots of the California Hot Rod Reunion run deeper into history than a modern drag racing event. Behind the bleachers at Famoso Raceway is the Grove, in the ground of which trees are planted in honor of those drag racing heavyweights that have passed on. The Grove at the CHRR is packed with those who feel a strong enough connection to the action on the track to fork over a few extra sawbucks to show off their rides - with some spots conspicuously vacant after the call to the staging lanes crackled over the loudspeakers.
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Super Conclusion! More Japanese Classic Car Show
We never did see Tony Danza as the day closed on the 3rd Annual Japanese Classic Car Show. We did catch sight of everything from a carbon-fiber Hayabusa powered Honda Z600 to a Toyota Land Cruiser Fire Truck, and said hello to Merciless Ming himself. We also met the crew from Japanese Nostalgic Car, who rolled their Cressida Wagon onto the grass to cover the event. Having taken the Starion to the 1st and 3rd shows and the Starlet to the 2nd, it seems finding a third car for the 4th Annual JCCS may be the answer to our ongoing financial ruin. [Japanesenostalgiccar.com]
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After a week or two of connecting cylinder head, engine block, and turbo back into a fusty old Mitsubishi Starion, we're back at the 3rd annual Japanese Classic Car Show in Long Beach, California. Skylines and Honda 600 Coupes are mingling with Starlets and Dodge Colts Mitsubishi Lancers. And while Jay Leno rolled into the show in a Mazda Cosmo, we have yet to see Tony Danza even though his Celica is here. [Japanese Classic Car Show]
Japanese Classic Car Show!
After a week or two of connecting cylinder head, engine block, and turbo back into a fusty old Mitsubishi Starion, we're back at the 3rd annual Japanese Classic Car Show in Long Beach, California. Skylines and Honda 600 Coupes are mingling with Starlets and
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If you were one of the Corvette junkies staking out Carlisle Fairgrounds in Pennsylvania this past weekend for Corvettes at Carlisle, you saw Mother Nature upstage the cars on display. A freak thunderstorm reportedly brought winds of up to 75 miles per hour, while heavy rains pounded the area with little regard to the buffing of finishes and the matching of numbers. Early reports indicated a tornado had touched down nearby, but local meteorologists say it was straightline winds that caused the damage. By all accounts, several people were injured, and one 1968 'Vette was crushed by a falling tree. Our hats are off. (Thanks to Rob for the tip.) [via Cajun Dude via Corvette Blogger]
Storm Causes Injuries, Widespread Damage at Corvettes at Carlisle
If you were one of the Corvette junkies staking out Carlisle Fairgrounds in Pennsylvania this past weekend for Corvettes at Carlisle, you saw Mother Nature upstage the cars on display. A freak thunderstorm reportedly brought winds of up to 75 miles per hour, while heavy rains pounded the area with little regard to the buffing of finishes and the matching of numbers. Early reports indicated a tornado had touched down nearby, but local meteorologists say it was straightline winds that caused the damage. By all accounts, several people were injured, and one 1968 'Vette was crushed by a falling tree. Our hats are off. (Thanks to Rob for the tip.) [via Cajun Dude via Corvette Blogger]
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The Jalopnik Yuri Gagarin Memorial Timepiece Collection
While judges scour and pore over fine examples of coachwork from Zagato and Scaglietti, chassis and engines by Duesenberg, Aston Martin — and even a hand-picked selection of hot rods by ingenious American hoodlums — in search of a winner, Bumbeck and Johnson scoured the field for the odd little gems that most embody the spirit of awesome. Sometimes it's a detail as small as a primer bowl on a rack of Webers. Others, it's the pure aura of gigantic gobs of awesome, most strikingly displayed by the Napier-Railton Brooklands oval speed-record car. Plus, some brave individual manhandled the beast through the Corkscrew yesterday at Laguna. And what could be better than that?
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Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy! We're Off to the Monterey Historics!
This afternoon the two Los Angeleno Jalops who are not the Loverman will hop in a mysical Korean bucket to be magically transported to the Monterey Peninsula for three glorious days of what can only be called The Greatest Spectacle in Auto Enthusiasm. Seriously, the events surrounding the Concours d'Elegance are that face-melting. But the greatest one of all has to be the Monterey Historics. While Pebble's got the pageantry and the "Oh my freaking bloody hell, I had no idea that this even existed and/or never thought I'd see it in my life!" factor going for it, for plebian gearheads, the Historics are where it's at. The entry fees are ridiculously reasonable... More »
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In Russia, Air Brushes YOU!
The inimitable English Russia has a gallery from Russia's Aerograph 2007 show, featuring a smattering of obsessively-artified vehicles. Sadly, there's only one ZAZ among the bunch, but as Murilee is wont to say, "...And one Zaporozhets to rule them all!" In fact, most of the vehicles are of German origin, suggesting that while they may have turned around the Germans at Volgograd, Russia's well-heeled would rather drive Mercs than Volgas. [English Russia]
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Herr Roy Goes to E-Town
During Alex Roy's long association with Jalopnik, we've come to regard his M5 as something of a piece of folk art; a snot-beat, pricey machine that's likely done more of what it was designed to do than just about any other E39 built. Herr Roy, of course, is a showman, and while his steed of choice is generally considered one of the finest cars of the last three decades, it's still a seven-year-old blue sedan. But somehow with the addition of antennae, stickers and Albanian goat-track dust, it becomes something else. It's almost a parody of the CSL Batmobiles in a way, but just as deadly in its own right. Alex and our pals Jeff Musical, Emil Rensing and Rob Ferretti took the M5 and a few other chips of the Bruce block down to Englishtown for the VW/Audi show at Waterfest over the weekend. It was bad enough that Roy showed up in a Bimmer. Worse? Rensing brought his F430. [Team Polizei]
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Bad Spray Leaves Tulsan Classic Car Owners Ultramega Un-OK
An undetermined brown-red spray showered a cadre of classic cars at the 35th annual Pontiac Oakland Convention in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They've yet to determine the makeup or the source of the airborne spew, but it damaged most of the 369 vehicles involved in the show. And given that the judging process required at least one passenger window left open, the flying schmutz gunked up the cars' interiors as well. While a nearby construction site is suspected to be the culprit, we're wondering if the Tulsan Belvedere Time Capsule wasn't exacting its revenge on rival classics, Double Dare-style. [Forbes]
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MOD Squad Hits Triple Diamonds in Third Year
Having been to the first annual Mitsubishi Owners Day three years ago, the sheer number of Lancer Evolutions tearing up the roads today seems almost impossible. So many EVOS appeared that the cars overflowed onto the nearby streets of MMUSA HQ. While there was some temporary grumbling that Prototype X showed up instead of the production version, there were plenty of 3000GTs, Starions, and Eclipses to keep everyone happily distracted. Stay tuned for some mini-galleries focusing in on some of the historic rides on shipped over from the museum in Japan on display at MOD. The good news is you've got another year to get that Mitsubishi 500 ready to roll.
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