• project car hell

    PCH, Affordable Shelby Edition: 1986 GLHS or 1989 CSX-VNT?

    Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! The last time we slammed the rusty doors of the Hell Garage, the Million Euro Gardner-Serpollet beat the double-homicide Stanley Steamer by a significant- yet not overwhelming 57:43 ratio. Today we've got the life sentence answer for those who want to drive some lunatic Carroll Shelby creation, yet don't have a six-figure budget: Shelby Mopars!
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    5:20 PM on Thu Aug 14 2008
    By Murilee Martin
    3,743 views, 68 comments

    Latest by bluegoose03: I vote for the GLHS. Largely because its floors are made of aluminum beer cans that completely rot out more »

  • jalopnik fantasy garage

    Hot Hatch Showdown

    With auto show season officially, mercilessly and thankfully over, the Jalopnik Fantasy Garage stands to be full in just six weeks. A short time by any standard, but especially so when distilling over a hundred years of automotive excellence into just 50 vehicles. Two weeks ago saw the induction of the Cadillac Eldorado Brougham, a car so finely crafted only a communist would disapprove. In this week's edition, we switch gears entirely. Compact, lightweight automobile construction, responsive suspension, spicy engine and a slick manual transmission. It's a simple formula which, if done properly, not only results in a car with character, but one which transcends the bottom-of-the-barrel genre and becomes something of legend, something which can ascend to the level of fantasy. This week, we examine the hot hatch. More »
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    1:00 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
    By Ben Wojdyla
    7,660 views, 135 comments

    Latest by petersterncan: @ppiddy: "The Omni is awesome fast, but while the GTI feels like a simple-but-decent car and has a little funky cachet, the more »

  • classic ad watch

    It Don't Get More 80s Than This: 1985 Plymouth Duster

    I was a senior in high school in 1984, and I recall hearing Baby Boomers going on and on about the goddamn 1960s at the time and thinking "There's no possible way anyone will ever be nostalgic for the 80s- no way!" How wrong I was- 80s nostalgia is like herpes, with sudden painful flareups and a miasma of shame surrounding its participants. And that brings us to what I believe may well be The Most Eighties Car Ad In All Of History: a 1985 Plymouth Duster ad that was apparently shown during the 1st Annual MTV Music Awards. And you know what that means- it's poll time!
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    11:00 AM on Wed Feb 27 2008
    By Murilee Martin
    17,184 views, 104 comments

    Latest by SweetZombieJesus: I demand a "where are they now" on the Dance Fever wanna-bees in this ad. more »

  • tanks a lot

    New England Chrysler LeBaron Sales Skyrocket

    Your New England Chrysler Plymouth dealers would like to thank you very much indeed for getting those LeBarons off the lot. We remember singing this same refrain after the shift linkage joining the Volkswagen engine to the Simca-based Dodge Omni we were driving went kerplow onto a snow covered Vermont road. Even with the linkage lost in snow, we managed to get the Omni into first gear. Thank you very much, we all crooned in unison while clomping along next to the Omni in our ski boots.

    2:30 PM on Mon Aug 13 2007
    By Mike Bumbeck
    1,195 views, 11 comments

    Latest by 3wheeler: Just finished with a Sebring. Arrive in LA, drop $5500 on a '98 Sebring Conv, drive 35000 miles without a more »

  • retro

    Ol' Shel's Bastard Sons: The Shelby Dodges


    Ah, the ignominious Eighties. Possibly the worst decade for cars since the Seventies, cars from the Greed Decade suffered from a lack of power, atrocious build-quality, and highly questionable and/or uninspired styling. Still, the manufacturers occasionally attempted to inject some fun into the vehicles. Case in point: Chrysler's hiring of Carroll Shelby to add a shot of git-up-'n'-git to their line of ho-hum compacts, including the Charger and Omni GLH (the GLH stands for "Goes Like Hell"). While not nearly as impressive as today's line of SRT-badged Mopars or the classic Mustangs and Cobras of yesterday, the Shelby Dodges nevertheless offered decent performance for the time. Check out all their questionable majesty. More »

    1:51 PM on Fri Aug 5 2005
    By Davey G. Johnson
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