Jalopnik: gas station

Artists Cover Abandoned Gas Station With Fabric Panels

Ben Wojdyla — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:20:00 EDT

At 2301 E. Colvin Street in Syracuse, New York, a once defunct gas station has been covered in colorful fabric panels by the International Fiber Collaborative. Why? Um, to draw attention to the problem of 1700 abandoned gas stations. That's a problem? Aren't there something like 150,000 gas stations in the US? Anyway, Jennifer Marsh is the visual artist behind this whole thing and was the collector of the thousands of unique panels made around the world that came together to cover the station. If you're in the Syracuse area over the next couple of months, swing by and, uh, look at it for a second? [International Fiber Collaborative via Treehugger]

There's a Car Man For Every Woman!

Murilee Martin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:45:00 EST

When Daddy hands his giggly teenage daughter the keys to a Shelby Mustang, how is she supposed to know how to keep it running? As we've seen, ads from the late-60s/early-70s era don't exactly take women seriously, and this one continues that hallowed American tradition. Say, how much would that GT350 be worth at Barrett-Jackson?

Man Attempts to Set Gas Station on Fire Over Cuh-razy Prices

Ray Wert — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:45:00 EST

All we were able to find on the above video was the caption "crazy guy so upset with high gas prices sets a gas station on fire." At first we were a wee bit skeptical, until we saw the sign in the background advertising the name of the station. Oh of course, it's Crazy Eddie's Chevron. Yup, you know, the guy with the commercial and the tagline "Come to Crazy Eddie's Chevron where the prices — and the customers — are insane!" You don't remember that one, eh? Must not be watching the same channels we are. Anyway, if any kids out there are watching this, remember not to walk through the gas as you're spraying it. If you do, we may have to teach you a new word — "self-immolation."

Drunk Dad Passes Out While Pumping Gas

Matt Hardigree — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:45:00 EDT

I can only guess what issues Wes Anderson has with his father, but I'm fairly sure the senior Anderson has nothing on this delinquent dad from Auckland, New Zealand. With his two year-old girl in the car, he drove into a local gas station and attempted to pump gas. Nothing strange there. But, allegedly, he was so drunk (four times the legal limit) that he fell asleep midstream next to the car. When he woke up 40 minutes later, the bad dad was in police custody and his car was being hooked up to a tow truck. Let's all just be thankful that this story ended with incarceration and not immolation. – Matt Hardigree

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