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down on the street bonus edition
Mystery Nissan Minivan-ish Wagon Down On The Austin Street
This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Since it's Maximum Minivan Day, we need a Maximum Minivan Down On The Street Bonus Edition. This mysterious Nissan vannish wagon (or wagonish van) was spotted in Austin by Schnog; his theory is that we're looking at a Mexican-market Tsuru wagon. Make the jump for the rest of the story.
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24 hours of lemons
The Yeehaw It's Texas 24 Hours Of LeMons Uber Gallery, Part I
Here's the first part of the Yeehaw It's Texas 24 Hours Of LeMons Über Gallery, featuring cars numbered 0 through 19. Go here for Part II and here for Part III.
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Proving The 1972 Lincoln Mark IV Is The Coolest Land Yacht Ever, Two Show Up At LeMons Texas
One side benefit of going to a 24 Hours Of LeMons race is getting to check out the interesting machinery that drivers and spectators use as personal transportation. We've seen the Caddy Wagon, the Audi Fox wagon, and so on. Houston had an Avanti and an orange Shelby Cobra, but what really had jaws dropping was this pair of '72 Lincolns. One is owned by an MSR track employee and boasts a 500+ horsepower 460, and the other is a recent purchase bySajeev MehtaDoctor V8, who was in town to race the Mad Cow Motorsports 240Z. Make the jump to check out the whole gallery.
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24 hours of lemons
The Top 70 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons Texas
The Yeehaw It's Texas 24 Hours Of LeMons was a roaring success, with high speeds on the track, heroics in the pits, and Texas justice in the penalty area. We had everything from a Baja Bug to a Lexus LS400 on the track, and you'll see 'em all here; even the Supra that blew its engine 10 seconds before the green flag dropped makes this comprehensive list of the Top Lemons Of LeMons Texas! Make the jump to see this fine collection of racing machinery; if this isn't enough LeMons for you, check out the top cars from Toledo '08, New England '08, South '08, Altamont '08, Thunderhill '07, and Altamont '07.
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12:00 PM on Tue Oct 21 2008
By Murilee Martin
5,524 views, 53 commentsMost discussed Maymar is convinced M.C. Escher engineered his car: I really hope someone on Team Guild of Calamatous Intent at some point during the weekend refered to their teammates more »
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Truck Wars
New Ford F-150, Dodge Ram Split Confusing Texas Truck Awards
Considering the tremendous capabilities and competency displayed by the 2009 Ford F-150, it's anything but a surprise the truck has been awarded the Truck of Texas title by the Texas Auto Writers Association, making it the sixth year in a row Ford has owned those bragging rights. It was a good year for Ford and no doubt, cost-responsible champagne will be flowing. However, we're definitely confused by this next part. Apparently TAWA also awarded the 2009 Dodge Ram "Full-size Truck of Texas," something which seems to directly contradict the idea of awarding the F-150 the "Truck of Texas."
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24 hours of lemons
What Kind Of Cars Are Racing At The Yeehaw It's Texas 24 Hours Of LeMons?
Since I just haven't had time to get into detail about the overall field of cars we've got here at LeMons Texas, I'm going to belazyefficient and put up a gallery of a sequence of photos I shot early on Saturday, showing 50 or so of the entrants heading into one of the favorite spinout turns at MSR. I'll do my best to keep y'all updated as the day progresses, so check in later on today.
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Adventures In Automotive Badvertising
Texas Dealers: Buy A GM Vehicle, Get 50 Shares Of GM Stock!
Two Texas dealers are trying to flip General Motors' low stock price into profits by offering customers 50 shares of GM common stock to buy a new GM vehicle by the end of the month. Will and Corrie Churchill, owners of Frank Kent Motor Co. in Fort Worth, Texas, began their promotion this week and will offer it to the first 100 customers "because this is GM's 100-year anniversary," Will Churchill said. We can't make this up. Seriously, if they'd come to me with this as a joke in a post I would have cut it for being too easy, formulaic and punny. Guess it serves me right. Shown up by reality. I hate it when that happens. Wait, it's happening again — guess what the name of the promotion is. Hit the jump to find out.
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24 hours of lemons
Houston LeMons Miscreants Beware: Judges Coming After You In Pike's Peak Winning Evo!
You read that correctly, racers: 24 Hours Of LeMons Supreme Court Justices Martin and Loverman will be in full gavel-pounding, cheater-busting effect at the Yeehaw It's LeMons Texas 2008 race, and this time we've got an Official Judicial Vehicle to enable us to get a real close look at your bad on-track behavior: the Rally Ready Mitsubishi Evo VI that won the Open class at the 2008 Pike's Peak Hill Climb race. That's right, Rally Ready Motorsports is bringing the race car out from Austin, with a squad of their best drivers to keep us in the thick of the action, ensuring that miscreants can't hide, nor run, from those well-deserved black flags. And (heh, heh), we've got some extra-cruelfair new punishments in store for racetrack lawbreakers!
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hurricane ike
Insight Owner Not Sweating Gas Lines In Houston
When we reported on lengthy fuel lines in Houston after Hurricane Ike, we made an off-hand joke about Prius owners no longer being a target of ridicule for truck owners. Walking our way to the coffee shop we now call home we noticed, amid the trucks, a lowly first-gen Honda Insight waiting to fill up. Damon Reed, the owner of the little hybrid, didn't seem to be too worried about the gas lines. More »
