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Le Mans: Start Your Engines
Here's a high-octane treat we're hoping sweetens your weekend. We just dropped $1,200 playing 6-way pot-limit Omaha high and are pretty far down in the dumps (not that far, we're still up over $700, but man that hand was a bad beat... stupid river Ace cracking my Queen set). Anyhow, this clip has sure cheered us up. As the man who sent it to us, Mr. Gribbon, explains, "Check this out and tell me watching it is not like shotgunning a can of Red Bull." He's not far off. Sound all the way up, friends. More »
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What Would You Bury In Tulsa?
As you're aware, they just exhumed a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere in Tulsa, OK. Apparently, this is pretty big news as KPCC (an LA public radio station) sent kitsch archivist extraordinaire Charles Phoenix all the way to the Sooner State to cover the muddy dig. Which got one of our readers thinking. Given a big hole in the ground and several square yards of bubble wrap, what modern car would you bury? As Kenny J explains, "So that when the days of MAD MAX are upon us, you are ready to hoon with the baddest Oakland Raider Fans." Well, if doomsday is the case, we're sinking the 725 hp Super Snake. But we're spraying it matte-black, first. How about you? And you have all weekend to ponder. More »
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Super UFO Potential: Vintage Datsun 280Z Ads
Wow. So, yesterday we posted a picture of a UFO and today we talked about the old man's bangin' 280Z. Above is a video that features both. Below the jump is another, not quite as out of this world commercial. Though it does show just how rockin' the Datsun's interior was. However, before you jump we think you should read the following;"You now face a new world, a world of change. We speak in strange terms, of harnessing the cosmic energy, of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy. The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets."More »
question of the weekend
Why Do You Love Cars?
Legend holds that when we were just a single year-old, we painted a white, 6" high racing stripe along the length of the old man's copper 280Z. We don't know how we got the lid off the can of house paint either. Some of our fondest childhood memories involve bounding up and over Decker Canyon in that same Datsun, strapped into a child carrier in the front seat. And yes, facing forward. When we were around 6, the old man started to let us shift. He had us behind the wheel at 10, explaining, "I learned to drive when I was 12. Two more years practice would have helped." Even more fun: both of my folks worked at
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Supercar Weekend: Some Video of the Orange Gumpert Apollo
We wish we had something really clever to say. But after two-hours of searching los interwebs for some decent car porn, we have reached the conclusion that no one should be allowed to point a video camera at a car unless they work for the BBC. That said, we officially have a crush on the Gumpert. Oh, and there's 9-more minutes of poorly conceived, filmed and produced Apollo action after the jump. More »
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Supercar Weekend: Steve McQueen's Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso Goes on the Block
Before our dear reader GoatBoy bunches his panties screaming, "Nuh uh! Nuh uh! That's not technically a supercar," we know. Technically the Ferrari 250 GTO is the world's first supercar (though the 1939 BMW 328 Mille Miglia Touring would beg to differ). We don't care. I mean, are you going to tell Steve McQueen that his daily driver isn't a supercar? Didn't think so. Besides, super sexy cars are totally super in our book. More to the point, if you have between $800,000 and $1,200,000 burning a whole in your pocket, you might want to head up to Monterey in mid-Agust and stop by the Christie's International Motor Cars 2007 flagship auction. We'll be there. Make the jump to see why. Oh, and the broad? That's Peggy Moffitt. More »
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Troublemakers! Block and Scotto Crash Subaru Show
Taking Rally America driver Ken "Flying Car" Block over to a Subaru gathering at a rainy Dave and Busters parking lot to sign posters and surprise the faithful seemed like a wicked awesome idea until the party got slightly out of hand. Block and Scotto himself shoed in with their Subarus to take the usual static car show to another level. All went well until Block started hooning it up around
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Supercar Weekend: World's Hooniest Soccer Mom
There are some who might say an RS4 isn't a supercar. There are also some that watched Alberto Gonzales testify to Congress last week and then publicly proclaimed that he did a good job. All we know is that an M5 is a supercar, and this Audi smokes it. She can drive us to practice anytime. More »
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Supercar Weekend: Tiff Needle Has a Funny Voice
Still, any man having a cargasm on camera is worth watching. What's he so excited about? Well, at first Tiff putters around in an Enzo. Which he thinks is OK. You know, just your average run of the mill supercar. But then he gets into the goofy center-seat of a McLaren F1, and well... you should watch. We will warn you, it is not just a "regular" McLaren F1, but one of the extra lust-worthy examples that started life as racecars and were converted back for street use. Meaning that they weigh hundreds of kilos less and sound like heaven filtered through hell. And if you like Tiff here, we've got more of him below the jump. More »
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Supercar Weekend: Gumpert Apollo Actually Looks Good in Orange, Europe
We've been following the progression of Gumpert's Apollo for some time now and exactly like most bespoke hypercars, the specs are beyond reproach while the aesthetics are lousy. Let us amend that to say were lousy. Above is one sexy German! Sure, that's what your Exige would look like after a weekend with Barry Bonds. But so what? Priced well over $400,000, it might as well look like the raddest car you ever scribbled on a Pee-Chee folder. Oh, and those specs? It's got the 4.2-liter V8 from the RS4/R8 with two-turbos hooked up, good for 650 hp (though if you want 800 hp, you can
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bat Reagan country. More importantly, a few more exists down the road is 23 South. Better known to hoons the Golden State over as Decker Canyon. We can only dream. Anyhow, enjoy Valhoona.
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Supercar Weekend: Get in Touch With Your Inner 12-Year-Old
Had we been in the middle of this, and had we been 12-years-old, we would have been dead from an aneurysm. For back when we were wee Jalops, just sighting a single slant-nosed 935 made us hyperventilate. This very well could have been us, too, as the Las Virgenes exit they pass on the 101 North is just a few miles from where we grew up out in
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(Uncle) Sammy Hummer Weekend: Sex-Crazed Atheistic Bolsheviks Shamefully Debase America's Truck
There's not much to say except for, "turn your sound up." Oh, and if you make the jump you can see some more. And if you like what you see, you should visit this website. Personally, we find it disgusting. More »
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(Uncle) Sammy Hummer Weekend: Deceitful Mini-Jeep Assails Mini-H2's Love of God and Country
Yeah, normally this is the spot where we put the lyrics to the song about dominating the parking lot at one of the Red Rocker's shows, but... these videos takes some explaining. Basically watch what's above, and then make the jump to see a new rendering of the phrase, "beaten like a rented mule." We find the second video slightly mo' funny with the sound off. Oh, and a happy Cabo Tahoe to you. Cue music. More »
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(Uncle) Sammy Hummer Weekend: Patriotic H2 Redemption
Got a Big Johnson T-shirt**Sung to the righteous tune of "Sammy Hagar Weekend" by Thelonious Monster. More »
Got a little baby, teeny nutsack
Got a jacked up Chevy Tahoe
Sitting in the parking lot of American Interstates
Gonna drink some Buds
Smoke some Reds
Eat Big Macs
And drive... drive about 55 mph
Uncle Sammy Hummer Weekend, yeah!
It's a Sammy Hummer Weekend baby**
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(Uncle) Sammy Hummer Weekend: Anti-Hummer, and Therefore Anti-American, Commie Bull
Got a Big Johnson T-shirt**Sung to the righteous tune of "Sammy Hagar Weekend" by Thelonious Monster. More »
Got a little baby, teeny nutsack
Got a jacked up Chevy Tahoe
Sitting in the parking lot of American Interstates
Gonna drink some Buds
Smoke some Reds
Eat Big Macs
And drive... drive about 55 mph
Uncle Sammy Hummer Weekend, yeah!
It's a Sammy Hummer Weekend baby**
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(Uncle) Sammy Hummer Weekend: A Wolf in Wolf's Clothing
Got a Big Johnson T-shirt**Sung to the righteous tune of "Sammy Hagar Weekend" by Thelonious Monster. More »
Got a little baby, teeny nutsack
Got a jacked up Chevy Tahoe
Sitting in the parking lot of American Interstates
Gonna drink some beer
Smoke some reds
Eat Big Macs
And drive... drive about 55 mph
Uncle Sammy Hummer Weekend, yeah!
It's a Sammy Hummer Weekend baby**
