All we know is what we're told by our tipster who wishes to remain anonymous. He claims that yes, the large burly man in the bed of the F-Series pickup is in fact Mr. T. Also, it's a photo shoot for an upcoming Snickers commercial. While none of that can be verified, what we do know for certain is we're doubled over…

Television was largely a scripted thing before a million channels and equal number of chopper building shows plunged TV into its current fetid stew of reality programming. The cop drama was king. Network produced cop shows ruled the airwaves for years at a time. Stretching the cop drama slightly thin was Banacek,…

Before video games and remote control cars that run on nitromethane became commonplace under the old tree, a slot car set was the coolest thing a wee lad could expect to rip into on the most awesome of mornings. While racing tiny versions of the coolest cars around on the plastic track and pretending one was Jackie…

Mustang mod shop, Mustang Racing (MRT), builders of SEMA bait such as the SurfChaser, the Mach 1 racer and the 429 Cobra Jet Puf Marshmallow Man (my apologies), have introduced a new V6-powered ragtop tuner. The MRT Cherry 6T6 boasts intercooled twin turbos; adjustable sport suspension, brakes and shocks; and more…

TomTom's been offering the voice of John Cleese on its nav systems for a while now, but other companies are starting to get into the celeb-navigator act. NavTones has contracted with Dennis Hopper, Mr. T and Burt Reynolds to provide voices that can be loaded into navigation systems. CNN/Money took each actor for a…

We're not too proud to admit we were the TV theme song jukebox of our elementary school's cafeteria. (We remember a kid named Earl calling out titles of TV shows for us to sing.) Our favorites were "Dallas" (which is actually even more awesome in its French incarnation), "Just Two Good Ol' Boys" (natch) and the "A-Team."…