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choose your eternity

PCH, 500 Bucks Worth Of Rust Edition: Skoda Felicia or Burma Jeep?

We were shocked, shocked to learn that the Peugeot 404 Baja racer annihilated the Oval Window Baja Bug in last Friday's Choose Your Eternity poll. It's a new week, however, and we've got new challenges ahead. Let's head on up to Seattle, where the constant rain creates sort of a year-round meat-market singles bar for lonely iron atoms looking to hook up with promiscuous oxygen atoms... and nobody goes home alone! When you've got a vehicle that's been sitting outside in coastal Washington for decade after decade, you figure you ought to be able to get it for a very reasonable price- and you figured right! Zeet has earned a PCH Tipster T-shirt by finding us a couple of tantalizingly cool machines sitting in the sodden Pacific Northwest weeds, so let's drive right in to a colder, damper Project Car Hell!
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5:20 PM on Mon Jun 9 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,853 views, 36 comments

Latest by NatefromOgden: Do you know what you call a Skoda convertible? In England it would be a "skip." Here we would call it a dumpster. more »

racing

Duct Tape Saves The Day For Vintage Racer's Datsun 510

A '68 Datsun 510 race car is a pretty good handling machine, but when you race in the sleet, rain, and snow of a Pacific Northwest springtime (as VintageRacer does) sometimes your car ends up taking an unscheduled detour off the track. Make the jump for VintageRacer's story.
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3:00 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,598 views, 23 comments

down on the street bonus edition

What Would A Diamond T Roadster Have Looked Like?

Diamond T stopped making cars while Taft was still president, becoming a noted truck manufacturer. But what if they had made a spiffy roadster in the 1930s? VintageRacer had his camera at the ready when the time came to answer that question; make the jump to read his description.

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4:00 PM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,010 views, 36 comments

down on the street bonus edition

Seattle Studebaker Champ Isn't Grungy At All

After sending us some great action shots from Daytona, VintageRacer headed home to the Pacific Northwest, where he spotted this extremely rare Studebaker Champ pickup. He had to wait for a non-rainy day to shoot it (no small feat in Seattle), but it was worth the wait. Make the jump for more photos and VintageRacer's description.

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11:00 AM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,386 views, 27 comments

news

Car Salesman Who Stole From Mentally Ill Customer Going To Jail, Probably To Be Named Salesman Of The Year

As if it's hard enough to get a good deal when buying a new truck, imagine if you're mentally ill. Then imagine that you let on that you're not well and have tons of money in cash at home. What happens next is the sales team at Douchebag Brothers Autos first goes to your house and steals about $70,000, then takes $30,000 for the truck and then, when you're committed to a mental hospital, takes the truck and puts it in their name. At least, that's what Paul Rimbley is convicted of doing. More »

9:30 AM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By Matt Hardigree
1,498 views, 21 comments

Latest by NovaloadMissesPolar: So...dehorsed...deranged...de clink! more »

offbeat news

Former NFL Placekicker Saves Woman From Car, Woman Still Prefers QB

Norm Johnson, a former placekicker for the Seattle Seahawks, is a hero for something other than nailing the game winning field goal as the clock expires. The kicker-turned-real estate agent was driving his son to school when he noticed the Pontiac Grand Am lying upside-down in a ditch full of freezing water and the woman trapped and screaming in the backseat. It was fortunate for the woman he arrived because, like all great kickers (and many good real estate agents), he's got ice water running through his veins. More »

10:15 AM on Wed Dec 12 2007
By Matt Hardigree
1,172 views, 11 comments

Latest by n/a: @danio3834: lol just watched that the other day...one of my top 5 favs. more »

news

Ex-Police Call for De-Policified Surplus Ex-Police Cars

Because it's sometimes unnerving to get pulled over by a real unmarked patrol car, some police and safety advocates are calling for fleet services to do a better job of making ex-patrol cars more civilian-ized. While there are good reasons for wanting a used cop car (you might be on a "Mission from God"), there are also a couple of less-than-noble motives. Former King County Sheriff Pat Jones has been pushing the state lege to make the change, but so far the law hasn't passed. More »

1:15 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Matt Hardigree
3,666 views, 42 comments

Latest by pitchpitch Type-Я: @jakay11: I'll remember that next time I'm feeling like burning up the NJTP on my way to New York City. Here I was thinking it was thinking that was the "relaxing" part of my trip after the DC/Baltimore and Delaware more »

crime

Cops Keeping $277K Seized From Traffic Stop, To Buy Darkest Glasses Ever

If you're driving around with hundreds of thousands of dollars in a briefcase you might want to come up with an excuse before you get on the freeway. A 35-year-old British Columbia man was stopped by Washington State Troopers in Seattle and was unable to explain where the money came from. We're going to go out on a limb and say it has to do with the non-British Columbia. Since no one claimed the money, 90% of it goes to a drug enforcement fund and the rest goes to the state's general fund. See, the War on Drugs is working! [News Tribune

6:00 PM on Thu Nov 8 2007
By Matt Hardigree
793 views, 29 comments

Latest by Hello_Newman: Yeah that's right, carry a quarter of a million dollars around and it's so likely that it wasn't gotten legally that you have to show how you got it. They can't keep it if it's legal, he wasn't charged with more »

carsharing

Car Sharing to Get More Tax-ing in Washington State

Flexcar/Zipcar users around Washington State are going to see the price of their car sharing rise this week as a nearly 10% car rental tax is going to be applied to their services. The rental car companies were displeased with the exemption for car sharing since they consider their services comparable, and the state's tax collectors agreed. There's an interesting balance at work here. On one hand, car sharing services (like rental car companies) utilize public roads and benefit from many public entities and should therefore pay taxes. On the other hand, the company does pay taxes on its income, gas, payroll, et cetera and helps the city lower its congestion by allowing numerous people to use one car. In the end, what happens will be a matter of who is willing to fight harder for/against the exemption. [Marketplace]

11:15 AM on Fri Nov 2 2007
By Matt Hardigree
257 views, 8 comments

Latest by goatrope: I'm glad the tax doesn't apply to fractional jet ownership. The cost of aviation fuel has spiked, and I certainly don't need another 10% tacked on to my NetJets invoice. I'm sure you all can feel my pain. more »

news

Woman Run Over Saving Duck In Poorly Planned Escape

A Seattle man is in jail, a Petco employee is in a cast but Mr. Peepers the duck is going to be okay. The man, Kenneth Quinlan, dropped his girlfriend off at Petco and decided to kill time by lifting an iPod speaker system from an adjacent store. A guard intervened and Quinlan, who apparently needed the speakers badly, beat him up and ran out of the store to his car. Just then, his girlfriend, Mr. Peepers in hand, approached the car. The car hit the girlfriend and Mr. Peepers went flying. Seeing the endangered duck, an exceptionally committed Petco employee rescued Mr. Peepers from the path of the car but was run over. The employee is going to be fine, but Quinlan hit another car on the road and is now in police custody. Though, in his defense, he'd apparently just gotten a methadone dose at the clinic. So, no harm no fowl.– Matt Hardigree More »

2:00 PM on Wed Apr 18 2007
By Matt Hardigree
327 views, 3 comments

Latest by dculberson: Okay, nobody's asked so I might as well: Why would you risk your life for a duck? I sure as shit wouldn't, and I'm a vegetarian. After it's been hit, just drop it off at the Chinese place more »

novelties

Seattle Supra Owner Gets "GOT MILF" License Plate Ganked By State

Why would someone ever want to take away the Stiffler-esque vanity plate of this young lad from the Seattle area? And seriously, who would ever marry a guy who had this license plate? – Ray Wert More »

1:49 PM on Mon Mar 12 2007
By Ray Wert
506 views, 13 comments

gadgets

TrafficGauge Aims to Salve Commute Wounds

If a full-boat GPS system is overkill for you, the harried commuter, TrafficGauge might just be solution. The service, which uses a basically buttonless device that only displays freeways, is just rolling out in the Bay Area after being deployed in Seattle and LA. While it displays the roads that are running wild, running free; the byways that are backed up, and conditions in between, we think the main problem with the device is the lack of major non-freeway arteries, which in places like LA and the Bay, anyway, are becoming more and more viable as the fruits of Eisenhower's dream fall victim to vehicular arteriosclerosis. [Thanks to CTE for the tip.] More »

2:37 PM on Mon Dec 12 2005
By Davey G. Johnson
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news

How (Not) to Steal a Million Gallons of Gas

Cheech and Chong taught us all about stealing gas in their 1980 sequel "Next Movie," in which they siphon gas into a trash can (full of garbage), then dump it all over the car and themselves as they try to fill the tank. Afterwards, they light a smoke and the car goes up in flames (though they're miraculously unkilled). Of course, compared to C&C's legendary "getting across the street" scene, one Washington State man's plot to steal more than a million gallons of gas from a distribution center on Harbor Island is completely unfunny. That's probably why it worked. For a while. More »

7:38 AM on Thu Dec 8 2005
By Mike Spinelli
1,505 views, 3 comments

Latest by MurileeMartin: Y&T, being made up of residents of the HHQ (High Hoonage Quotient) cities of Alameda and Hayward, were the patron saints off all that was East Bay Hoonly back in the day. Man, even after they (briefly) became groupies-and-limos famous more »

news: weird

Over The Rail: Caprice Cruiser, PT Cruiser Fall 20 Feet Onto Sidewalk

We're a sucker for a good car crash story, as long as nobody gets seriously hurt, and this one in Seattle was quite a doozy, as doozies of this type go. A woman left her elderly father in her '80s-vintage Chevy station wagon on the second floor of a parking garage and supposedly stuck the car in park. What happened next isn't entirely clear, but it resulted in the wagon smashing into a parked, unoccupied PT Cruiser and sending both vehicles plummeting through a steel-and-concrete barricade, over the edge of the parking garage and onto the sidewalk below. Amazingly enough, the 88 year-old man survived the ordeal with only minor injuries. More »

8:26 AM on Wed Oct 19 2005
By Davey G. Johnson
365 views, 5 comments

Latest by blalor: Nice work, Futileboy! The drop wasn't as bad as I had envisioned. The Caprice looks completely driveable. I've seen worse damage on cars on the commute to work. more »