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Renaults, Citroens And Talbots... Oh My! French Cars On Bastille Day

Happy Bastille Day! In honor of the 219th anniversary of the symbolic beginning of modern France, our very own Frenchman Franzouse, has collected these photos from the "Course de Cote" vintage hill climb in St Geniez D'olt. Each car is a unique part of French rallying history, and the gallery includes a Renault R5 Turbo 2, a Citroen Visa rally car and a Talbot Sunbeam. And that's just what we can name off the top of our head.

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2:00 PM on Mon Jul 14 2008
By Matt Hardigree
1,044 views, 43 comments

Latest by n/a: As a Frenchman, I would suggest you forget about most of those, excepted for the Turbo 2 and maybe the standard R8 (you know, the grey/blue square box in the last pictures) which is far from the Gordini legend performance, more »

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Long Beach K9 Officers Association Car Show

Filed under: Sedans/Saloons, Sports/GTs, Wagons/Estates, Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford, Police/Emergency, Lifestyle More »
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SWAT Support Charity Car Show Mega Gallery

On April 27th, 2008, automotive enthusiasts from across Southern California converged on Pierce College in Woodland Hills for the Motor4Toys SWAT Support Charity Car Show organized by Dustin Troyan. The purpose of this show was to raise money for the families of Randal Simmons and James Veenstra, LAPD SWAT officers who were killed and injured in a standoff in February.

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7:00 PM on Sun May 11 2008
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Latest by Rondogg: I live about 10 minutes away but didn't make it down due to my tendency to sleep late on weekends. I wish I had gone down.. more »

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Delicious Datsuns At The Z-Car West Coast Nationals

Our friends at Japanese Nostalgic Car recently went to the Z-Car West Coast Nationals in Silverado, California. As you'd imagine, there was quite a selection of tasty vintage Datsuns and some newer Nissans too. We just love the timeless proportions of a long hood and sloping back on the older Datsuns, so we've included a gallery of some of our favorites. If you wanna see more, there's plenty to check out over at Japanese Nostalgic Car.


5:05 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Mark Arnold
2,027 views, 24 comments

Latest by SuperCarnitas: This reminds me to go catch up on those Wangan Midnight episodes...+ Watch video more »

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Can You Identify All The Collector Cars On These Dreamer Carriers?

What happens when you take two car carriers full of classic cars and post the pictures on Jalopnik? We're guessing productivity is going to drop at America's best businesses and places of higher learning. Talk about right place at the right time, UDMAN happened to be driving along I-95 in Rhode Island to catch the 18 dreamy autos. We've got a good idea of what they are, but we've been wrong before. This is a collective challenge so everyone is encouraged to work together to make the identifications.

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10:30 AM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Matt Hardigree
2,181 views, 64 comments

Latest by ĎāvĕΓħëβЯĂvė: All these wonderful machines on open car carriers in the rust belt in the winter? Guess you don't have to be smart to own nice cars! But it is a nice distraction for the Jalops! more »

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What's The Coolest Car You've Seen Parked On The Street?

Not living in a city like Alameda, where the streets aren't covered in salt for weeks at a time, we're not often treated to pristine condition cars just sitting on the street. Despite the large size of Chicago, we'd be hard pressed to come up with something matching Murilee's brilliant and wonderful list of 200 cars down on the street in Alameda. The list instantly got us thinking about the coolest cars we've seen lying around. More »

11:40 AM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Matt Hardigree
4,092 views, 189 comments

woodward dream cruise

2007 Woodward Dream Cruise Is Two Weeks Away And Even The New York Times Sees The Man Trying To Keep Us Down!

It looks like the New York Times has deemed the run-up to the 2007 Woodward Dream Cruise, and the associated (and non-associated) week-long classic cruising, worthy of a piece this past Friday. Although we're just excited our little 40,000-car and million-person Cruise of Dreams was considered news fit enough to print, we're troubled by the many reports we're hearing from Metro Detroit classic car owners of "police issues" including tickets for burn-outs, loitering and general harassment by the man. A couple of us have even been on the receiving end of a few of those tickets from one particular community whose name we won't explicitly mention — but you know which one we're talking about. Anyway — feel free to regale us of your tales in the comments below of any "issues" you yourself may have had this summer in cruising America's highways and byways. And if you want to keep track of all the pre-Cruise and Dream Cruise coverage — keep your eyes on our Woodward Dream Cruise — as well as the RSS feed for you lovers of the readers — we'll have content up over the next two weeks, and of course we'll revert to our usual breathless 24x7 coverage beginning a few days out. [New York Times]

8:15 AM on Sun Aug 5 2007
By Ray Wert
3,257 views, 23 comments

Latest by geeteeoh: That car gets sweeter everytime I see it. I want one. I want one badly. more »

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The Woodward Dream Cruise Is Just One Month Away, Let's "Bus" A Move

We're now around one month away from the 2007 Woodward Dream Cruise, the biggest single-day classic car event in the world, and already the Detroit daily newspapers are slapping down the walk-down-memory-lane pieces. First up is the Detroit News today who urge you to get on the Woodward bus with a nice long piece on people making their livelihood off of the big, wide Avenue running down the center of the metro Detroit area. It's nice they've centered their story on a bus driver, but man, we're totally hoping this isn't the most developing part of the area's economic development. But oh, look, they've got a cutesy little animated graphic at the top of the piece. We're so proud of them. We'll of course be covering the entire cruise, live-blogging our way through the one-day cruise on Saturday, August 18th. You can follow along at our tag or the RSS feed. [Detroit News]

9:15 AM on Mon Jul 23 2007
By Ray Wert
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2007 Woodward Dream Cruise Is Go -- Despite The Early Cruising, Tickets And Lack Of Money!

So, if you've never been to the Woodward Dream Cruise there's good news — the 2007 cruise is on and it's set for Saturday August 18th! Already we're hearing of various Oakland County police departments upset drivers are cruising Woodward Avenue months before the Dream Cruise officially starts. Although they're doing all they can to send people packing with tickets for drag racing, loitering in parking lots and the always fun "quick starts" n' peeling out. We love how they're basically penalizing folks for acceleration ability. But whatever, our guess is it won't dampen the spirit of the largest single day classic car event in North America — and it won't dampen our spirit for covering it now that we've found out the Cruise organizers have found the money necessary to keep it rolling on. So, keep your eyes on our Woodward Dream Cruise tag or RSS feed as we'll be spending a lot of time on it as we get within one month of the big day. – Ray Wert More »

8:30 AM on Thu Jul 5 2007
By Ray Wert
1,063 views, 4 comments

Latest by BlackIce_GTS: I wonder if anyone will set up a webcam to watch the action. Ideally, this webcam would have a neon exclamation mark above it which viewers could light up whenever something particularly impressive rolled by. more »

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Oklahoma Plymouth, OK?

We've just received word the "test lift" of the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere in Tulsa, Oklahoma went just peachy. And by peachy we mean they were able to lift the car using a humongous 120-ton crane/strap setup and it didn't fall apart. Actually Tulsarama (don't ask) chairwoman Sharon King Davis said she feels "much better" about the condition of the car. Of course, after sitting in a buried vault in a pool of rust-colored water for 50 years the fact it didn't immediately disintegrate is probably cause for celebration. But check out that tailfin there above and in the gallery below — what do we think — is it mud and grime on the vacuum-sealed car-covering, or is that a thin veneer of rust? We'll find out at either noon when the Belvedere's pulled from the vault or at 7:00 PM tonight when Mr. Belvedere loses his soggy wet condom-like protection. We're on pins and needles. [Hat tip to Michael!] – Ray Wert More »

9:45 AM on Fri Jun 15 2007
By Ray Wert
5,474 views, 28 comments

Latest by n/a: Who won the car? And do they get a free tetanus shot to go with it? more »

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The Most Beautiful Ford in the World: 1967-68 Ford OSI 20m TS

While our American parents were smoking dope in the back of their Mustangs and blasting the Beach Boys, our hipper, richer European parents were blasting the Beach Boys and smoking dope in the backs of these Italian-bodied hotties. OSI, located in Turin, was an Italian Design firm that bent metal for companies such as Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Innocenti. The man who designed the Type III Karmann Ghia, Sergio Sartorelli, penned this triple-sexy American-Italian hybrid. Only around 2000 were produced. Please don't bother looking up specs or performance numbers, as they are depressing (e.g., 0-100 km/h — 62 mph — in 14 seconds). Instead, just make the jump and drool. More »

12:00 PM on Mon Dec 11 2006
By Jonny Lieberman
2,180 views, 6 comments

Latest by n/a: I registered just to say that I saw one of these for the first time while in Tokyo. I was looking out the window while at a restaurant, when I was like "whuthafuk?" The car was beautiful, silver with a more »

2006 woodward dream cruise

Hoon Of The Day: Four Minutes Of Woodward Dream Cruise Burnouts


Up in Pontiac at the Woodward Avenue loop, there's one spot which is guaranteed to make the ladies scream and the fellas cream — and our tipster John Harmon rocked it for us today, putting four minutes of burnouts together with a little bit of Steve Miller's "Livin' in the USA." But remember, it's all fun and games until the police show up. At least you know one of us is gonna be mad partial to the Spartan flags! More »

3:10 PM on Mon Aug 21 2006
By Ray Wert
401 views, 2 comments

Latest by nick2ny: I liked the bit where the cameraman can't figure out if the truck, mustang or camaro is gonna do the burnout. Course it is the camaro! more »

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2006 Woodward Dream Cruise: Danger! Blogging While Wet!


We've walked, like the postal service, through rain and wind and a lack of adequate sidewalks, down Woodward Avenue from where we filed our initial reports at the Birmingham Starbucks at 15 Mile. So what's happened in the interim two hours? Two things. The first is that it's fucking wet outside. The second thing is that although we're inside the fine Caribou Coffee between 14 Mile and 13 Mile, we're fucking soaked. As we made the one and a half-mile trek down Woodward Avenue, the rain didn't let up (it actually intensified from spittin' to heavy drizzle) and there was only one thought going through our minds — when are we gonna see the hot chicks on hot classic cars. Well... More »

10:40 AM on Sat Aug 19 2006
By Ray Wert
145 views, 2 comments

Latest by Ray Wert: hahahaha! Where the hell are ya, wohho? more »

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2006 Woodward Dream Pre-Cruise: The 1963 Plymouth Belvedere "Elwood" Police Edition

One of the cooler finds out on the not-so-mean streets of Metro Detroit this weekend has to be this 1963 Plymouth Belvedere with a 6.6 liter 400, done-up for the boys in blue looking for the brothers Blues. The car with the same name as the butler, was re-built by John Hammond, a deputy sherriff in Tennessee, as a tribute to the Blues Brothers and the Mount Prospect Illinois Police Department. John ended up selling his beloved "Elwood" to finance some of his other fine projects, which is one of the reasons why it's now up here in Michigan with a new owner and available for us to yell "Illinois Nazis!" at the top of our lungs. And as Wert says, the best part's the license plate — "STOLEN1." More »

12:50 PM on Sun Aug 13 2006
By Ray Wert
227 views, 3 comments

Latest by scotte: 13 & Woodward? Must be near Duggan's Irish Pub! more »

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Summer Cruising On Woodward Avenue: Chevy's Building The Camaro?


We guess Chevy just enjoys preaching to the converted — it's our only explanation why we've now seen a car carrier driving up and down Woodward Avenue pre-Dream Cruise with a Chevy Camaro concept and a classy classic Camaro, closely followed by the above billboard truck twice in the past two days. The billboard shows the new Camaro along with the tagline: More »

11:03 PM on Sat Aug 12 2006
By Ray Wert
896 views, 5 comments

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Summer Cruising On Woodward Avenue: August 11, 2006 -- Part II


Why yes, we do believe there's more. Anyone want to play spot the classic car? Feel free to play in the comments...on this or any of the rest of the Woodward Cruising posts. Also remember to keep checking the mini-site as we get ready for the 2006 Woodward Dream Cruise next Saturday. We've got a whole team of Jalopniks storming the Cruise with cameras and videocams blazin'. We promise we'll own coverage of the classic cruise, and you won't want to miss an instant of it. That said, here's some more classic cars captured by our and our cohorts' cameras. And yes, today's letter is most definetly "C" — as in "Cruising Cars." [Thanks to AJ for the help!] More »

2:35 PM on Sat Aug 12 2006
By Ray Wert
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Summer Cruising On Woodward Avenue: August 11, 2006 -- Part I


We're now one week away from the official day Metro Detroit's set aside for classic cruisin' — the 11th annual Woodward Dream Cruise. But like all good "sports," there's totally a need for practice. We headed out into the setting sunlight to witness some of the best and brightest classic cars we've seen down this stretch of asphalt since around this time last year. Although we spent way too much of the night racing down Woodward in a Dodge Ram 1500 Mega Cab, scaring the kiddies who weren't able to read the side of the truck and see that, yeah, it's got a HEMI, we did manage to capture some of the fun. Actually, there was so much classic car action on Woodward not only couldn't we keep up, but we've actually split last night's photos into a threesome of Detroit love. Here's the first of the series. Check back later today for the rest. As always, to follow our misadventures, keep hitting refresh on the Woodward Cruising mini-site, or for the geeks like us, drop the tag into your fave feed reader. More »

11:23 AM on Sat Aug 12 2006
By Ray Wert
651 views, Comment

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Business In The Front, And The Camaro Is Back II: Classic Camaro Iron


Although we feel like much of yesterdays "Camaro reveal" was exactly like the reveal of the concept car at NAIAS (all the way down to the music) — only with the addition of a large dose of amphetamines to speed up the show — we didn't mind so much as it again gave us the opportunity to check out the hotness that are classic Camaros. Of course, it also forced us to check out the diametrically opposite-to-hot late-gen Camaros. Meh, no event's perfect, right? But with all these Camaro owners and Camaro enthusiasts around, some of them apparently even GM employees, it seems Chevy's got a chance at hitting Lutz's magical sales number to make the vehicle profitable. In the meantime, check out what we saw yesterday below. More »

11:17 AM on Fri Aug 11 2006
By Ray Wert
153 views, 3 comments

Latest by Rabbi Dave: uh yeah. I'm sick at home sorry. blurry vision more »

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