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    Stupidest Awesome Car At 2009 Orphan Car Show: Out-rig Your Mom-In-Law

    1908 Maxwell LC Tourabout: Subaru Boxer's Great-Great-Grandpappy

    1947 DeSoto Custom Suburban Makes Minivans Seem Really Crappy

    1948 Davis Delta: Now That's Weird

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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    06/10/09

    In reply to Stupidest Awesome Car At 2009 Orphan Car Show: Out-rig Your Mom-In-Law
    These seats are the reason it became illegal to park alongside fire hydrants... even if your outboard passenger was wearing a cup.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/10/09

    In reply to Stupidest Awesome Car At 2009 Orphan Car Show: Out-rig Your Mom-In-Law
    Wow, with two of these cars you could have auto-jousting!

    With only one, I guess you could still have fun with a one player game of chicken.
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    06/10/09

    In reply to Stupidest Awesome Car At 2009 Orphan Car Show: Out-rig Your Mom-In-Law
    I prefer the canvas sack into which you put your dog on the running board.
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    06/10/09

    @TV's Paul Y.: I just went to get a picture of that!


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    Image of Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master
    06/10/09

    In reply to Stupidest Awesome Car At 2009 Orphan Car Show: Out-rig Your Mom-In-Law
    You know that trick about blowing on a baby's eyes to get him to go to sleep? Yep.
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    06/10/09

    In reply to Stupidest Awesome Car At 2009 Orphan Car Show: Out-rig Your Mom-In-Law
    From drawer to drawer.
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    Image of marc2068 marc2068
    06/10/09

    In reply to Stupidest Awesome Car At 2009 Orphan Car Show: Out-rig Your Mom-In-Law
    Those seats will make hitting a mailbox with a bat a lot easier.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/10/09

    @marc2068: That is definitely true. And if your passenger drops the bat- you could just ram him into the mailbox.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    06/10/09

    In reply to Stupidest Awesome Car At 2009 Orphan Car Show: Out-rig Your Mom-In-Law
    If my mathematics are correct, this car is a 6-seater. 2 in the front, 2 in the back, 2 on the sides. A 2+2+2, if you will.


    What vehicles are available today that can seat 6? A handful of minivans, several SUVs, a crossover or two, the Ford Flex (it's more of a station wagon, right?), and a few wagons. Oh, and busses.


    None of those can compare to the style of this car. Sure, safety rules prohibit you from sticking passengers outboard, but that's not really what I'm talking about. This car, much like it's contemporaries, exhibits grace, style, poshness, and a certain je ne sais quoi not exemplified by the modern automobile.


    Could you imagine the reviews if, say, Mercedes Benz put a steamer trunk on the back of a C-Class for the trunk? It seems there is just a level of uniqueness and luxury missing from today's cars.

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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    06/10/09

    @engineerd is the antithesis of funny: It does look like there is a rumble seat, since there are two lids on the rear deck, (and the front most cover looks to hinge in the proper direction) but without seeing them open, there is no way to know. The top picture looks like it has an open rumble seat, but scrolling through, I find out that it is merely the trunk lid.

    I'll still work on the assumption that it has a rumble seat, and that makes it slightly more awesome than if it had "merely" the slide out seats.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/10/09

    In reply to Stupidest Awesome Car At 2009 Orphan Car Show: Out-rig Your Mom-In-Law
    I usually put my mother-in-law in the trunk.


    Interpret that as you wish.

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    Image of Jagvar Jagvar
    06/10/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli:


    So...she's a hooker?

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/10/09

    @Jagvar: @jpech: Actually, I like my mother-in-law, when she keeps her f*cking mouth shut, and doesn't come over my house.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    06/10/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: mother in law is an anagram for woman hitler.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    06/10/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: Then where do you keep your wife? And the drugs?
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    Image of 1000songs 1000songs
    06/10/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: Laugh all you want, but my father IS in the trunk of my mother's car (and has been since October).
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/10/09

    @1000songs: At the risk of appearing insensitive, was he cremated?
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    06/10/09

    In reply to Stupidest Awesome Car At 2009 Orphan Car Show: Out-rig Your Mom-In-Law
    Rumble seat makes it a four seater. One of these jump seats (most accurate name ever) on each side makes it a six seater roadster. Perfect for squabbling children too. Or as a camera car for the chase scenes.


    Beautiful packaging efficiency.

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    Image of pres pres
    06/10/09

    In reply to Stupidest Awesome Car At 2009 Orphan Car Show: Out-rig Your Mom-In-Law
    Putting my ex-mother in law on that seat would cause that poor car to capsize.
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    Image of GreenN_Gold GreenN_Gold
    06/10/09

    @pres ala mode: Like when they put the rack of ribs on Fred Flintstone's car?
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    Image of pres pres
    06/10/09

    @GreenN_Gold:


    Like that but the rack of ribs can't constantly undermine my self-worth.

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    Image of bdon bdon
    06/09/09

    In reply to 1908 Maxwell LC Tourabout: Subaru Boxer's Great-Great-Grandpappy
    come on jalopnik you know better than this. the nesselsdorfer in 1902 was the worlds first boxer four at 5.9 liters. gigantic. it became tatra, tatra became vw, subaru obsessed with bimmer/euro/german suddenly has a twin boxer, and a rear diff and setup in the four cyls looking much like a BMW 2002. given the euro think was appealing to subaru, I could guess the grand daddy abit better than this. And lastly. Karl benz of germany gets credit for the benz crank 2 cylinder , which is also in the subaru engines (thier number one einstein).And another last note, BMW ironically has the greatest acheivement yet for the twin boxer in a motorcycle. Just beacause it is the first one a jolpnikian saw running doesn't mean a bear doesn't crap in the woods when none is looking. History as a mistake written leads to the world tortured by honda civics.
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    06/10/09

    @bdon: Dude, a British company, ABC, built the first laterally-cooled motorcycle boxer in 1919. BMW was very early, but later by a few years, 1923.


    It's actually pretty hard to find "firsts" automobiledom. They're often started by someone obscure then copied and popularized by someone with more resources at hand.

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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    06/09/09

    In reply to 1948 Davis Delta: Now That's Weird
    Ben, you were at the Orphan Show? You should have stopped by and said hi. I had my Rambler and my Eagle there. I talked with Junkman for a bit toward the end. His Ghia was really sweet, even if it does have an SBC instead of the proper Chrysler mill.
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    Image of junkman junkman
    06/09/09

    In reply to 1908 Maxwell LC Tourabout: Subaru Boxer's Great-Great-Grandpappy
    The first woman to drive cross country, Alice Ramsey, used a 1909 Maxwell touring car. She and two friends completed the journey in approximately 59 days. To commemorate the centennial of this event, a family from Seattle will be replicating her journey in a similar vehicle.
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    06/10/09

    @junkman: Yeah, I think the NYTimes had that. They had to build the 1909 Maxwell out of parts because there weren't any of that model left.
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    Image of the good dr zero the good dr zero
    06/09/09

    In reply to 1908 Maxwell LC Tourabout: Subaru Boxer's Great-Great-Grandpappy
    Just last weekend, Dad was showing pictures of his first "car", a 1953 (I think) Jowett Bradford van. It also featured a horizontally opposed twin, which I was told had been in production for about 50 years. With a touch of Wiki-ing, it turns out that that it started production in 1910, so Ben's engine wins.
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    06/09/09

    @the good dr zero:
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    06/09/09

    In reply to 1947 DeSoto Custom Suburban Makes Minivans Seem Really Crappy
    That is a glorious throwback to a different time. It's every bit as Art Deco as the Chrysler building itself. Flippin beautiful.
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