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the a-team

B.A. Baracus Needs You to Caption This On Set Photo, Fool!

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 because our sides are positively splitting from laughing so hard. Please help us out in our feeble weakened state by giving us your caption to this photo in the comments below. Tell us — what in the name of all that is salty and nutty is B.A. doing on the back of that early 80's Ford F-150?

4:30 PM on Wed Jan 9 2008
By Ray Wert
27,470 views, 81 comments

Latest by bigusfickes: I dropped my contact foo!! more »

not mr. t, model t

Coop Hits the Swap Meet

The one and only Mister Cooper got together with Señor Jalopy and belly-tank Bobby to hit a Model T swap meet in the fine city of Long Beach. As one of the few art critics Los Jalops intrinsically respect — as he himself has a bit of the old artist in him — we dig the man's take on the inherent majesty of the layout of parts on row after row of high-school gym tables covered in whatever's handy. Tin Lizzie-ownership fantasies will soon follow if you've got an American red blood cell in your body. [Positive Ape Index]

9:45 PM on Fri Jul 27 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
614 views, 1 comment

Latest by dorkusmaximus: I feel like I'm ahead of the game. I didn't get sunburned, dirty from sorting through junk all day and hung over from drinking too much beer in the afternoon to motivate myself to search for cool stuff that I more »

tv

When TV was King of Kustoms


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, played by a turtleneck wearing George Peppard. Banacek was an insurance investigator of Polish-American heritage who always managed to solve the crime or mystery at hand. More unusual than any of this was that though Banacek himself lived in Boston, action on the show always managed to take place in Los Angeles or Las Vegas. From this regal age of the television network rule also came kustom kars built by the likes of George Barris.
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12:45 PM on Fri Dec 8 2006
By Mike Bumbeck
462 views, 7 comments

Latest by lascauxcaveman: That is preposterous. It's not physically possible for a AMC to be worth $5 Million dollars! Of course its possible. All you need to do is stuff 50,000 benjamins in the trunk. more »

slot cars

Mini Slot Car A-Team Elvis Mayhem


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 Stewart or Mario Andretti was the first order of business, it wasn't long before imagination got the best of convention. Something like a couple of Mini-Coopers mowing over an A-Team Hannibal action figure to an Elvis soundtrack was usually the end result. – Mike Bumbeck More »

12:47 PM on Tue Dec 5 2006
By Mike Bumbeck
161 views, 5 comments

Latest by Mike Spinelli: We must make this happen. I'll get on the phone today. I don't know what that means, but it sounds proactive. more »

news

Navigatin' With Bandit, B.A. and the Photojournalist from 'Apocalypse Now'

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 spin, and surprise, surprise, the Bandit took the prize. While we're sure it would be fun to pretend we're in a short-wheelbase custom GMC van or a Patrol Boat, River, we'll take the '77 TA every time. Now if only GPS systems included Smokey reports... More »

10:59 PM on Thu Dec 1 2005
By Davey G. Johnson
162 views, Comment

custom cars/hot rods

The Best Van Ever: The A-Team's GMC

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." Plus, the team of crack commando pariahs had a wicked-cool custom van, which we were saddened to see in a dilapidated state on a Universal Studios tour back in the '80s (along with a similarly abused Selleck-driven Ferrari 308. Have these Hollywood types no sense of decency? We're sure George Peppard is rolling in his grave. More »

3:27 AM on Mon Aug 1 2005
By Davey G. Johnson
15,093 views