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more about #grandam more comments → mgrinshpon: His beard looks like a star trek ship. more » brandegee: Hydrocodone in my pizza! Jackpot! more » powermatic: The 'ol 'don't you know who I am', followed quickly by a 'I'll have your job' gambit. Yep, that's a sure winner for any civilian/cop interaction. Nic... more » B1663R: 30 sec photoshop :) more » MushyHeirloom: Not meth? Really? You sure? more » Ralph Wiley Is Poised: We need more organized legal drag strips, and opium dens, to keep this sort of thing off the streets. more » LTDScott: I always thought NASCAR and wrestling appealed to similar markets, and this just proves it... that's Jerry "The King" Lawler! more » FTGDWolverineEdition'09: Should've listened to Jean Girard. Shame on you for ruining the name of France. French people will so not like you. more » JCCrgb: "France has been suspended from Grand-Am indefinitely." As I recall, wasn't JC also in a fistfight with another Grand-Am competitor a couple of year... more » bmoreDLJ: "I want your commander now. I am a Putin. Do you know what that means? We own this country! I am gonna have your job. This is the biggest mistake ever... more » NSFU: I think the real story here is that you can't rely on anyone to buy American these days. Sad. more » lilwillie: You are France? You don't even own your own City more » bmoreDLJ: What are the police thinking, arresting someone this powerful? Don't they know NASCAR royalty are above the law? Sheesh. Cot-damn ugly sumbitch, tho. more » bzr: more » Z71: Damn, that sucks. My cousin works for the Porsche grand-am team that he drives for. I wonder how she's taking the news. more » -
#dailydui
NASCAR Founder's Grandson Popped For DUI, Cocaine And Street Racing
A blasted-looking J.C. France, grandson of NASCAR founder Bill France and Grand-Am racer, was arrested in Daytona Beach with his "housemate" for an illegal trifecta: drug possession, street racing and DUI. Yup, Cocaine is a hell of a drug. More » -
#classicadwatch
If You Can Stand It This Hot: The 1990 Pontiac Grand Am
How could The General bring himself to axe Pontiac, with a history like this? We'll admit the N-body Grand Am wasn't Pontiac's finest hour, but it was orders of magnitude better than the execrable Phoenix! More » -
#downonthestreet
Pontiac Is No More, But The Survivors Flourish Down On The Street
Oldsmobile, Plymouth, and now Pontiac; this century is rough on the old Detroit marques. With the the demise of Pontiac in mind, let's check out the classic Pontiacs I've photographed down on the Alameda street.
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#carpocalypse
Seven Cars That Killed Pontiac
Yesterday, lamenting its death, we extolled the virtues of Pontiac's ten best vehicles. Today we face reality — Pontiac's been building terrible cars for years. These seven stinkers drove the nails into the coffin. More » -
#racingnews
Alex Roy, Team Polizei Enter Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series
Bald, law-breaking road rally drivers will be better represented in Grand Am Sports Car racing this year, Alex Roy, holder of the NY-to-LA driving record, is entering the series. More » -
#24hoursoflemons
The Top 95 Lemons Of The Gator-O-Rama 24 Hours Of LeMons
For the first time ever, Detroit iron dominated a 24 Hours Of LeMons event, with American-built machinery taking four of the top five positions (if you consider a California-built Corolla to be American-built, that is). More » -
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#downonthestreet
1973 Pontiac Grand Am Colonnade, with Bonus Malaise Era Rant
1973: The Malaise Era was just kicking off, with the Arab oil embargo and Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre letting everyone know that pessimism would be the order of the day for quite a while. The Vietnam War was clearly not going to result in another hide for Uncle Sam to nail onto the barn, and- perhaps worst of all- engine compression ratios were getting smaller and car bumpers were getting bigger. Into this quagmire slogged the '73 Pontiac Grand Am Colonnade, with wild styling that showed the how the Pontiac Division wasn't going to let those freaks over at Buick outdo them with the boat-tail Riviera. More »
