aaronfoley
Aaron Foley
aaronfoley
Used to do Jalopnik Detroit when that was a thing. Now just kinda here and there.

Damnit- Now I want a coney-dog.... Read more

However, the People Mover does stop near the Skillman Branch of the Detroit Public Library, home to one of the largest collections of automotive documentation (memos, press kits, mechanics' guides, sales tracks, every scrap of paper that follows the evolution of the industry) in the world.

Love it!! Detroit deserves much love. Fuck all the haters to scared to tackle the city. Read more

I wonder if this vehicle was made at the local tank factory on Van Dyke? Read more

OMG, I just moved to NY from Shelby a few weeks ago and this awesome thing happened??? Not fair! Read more

It's not a tank, its an M8 Greyhound armored car. They were used in WWII by armored scout and MP units. Read more

if ur gonna do somethin like that u should probably say somethin to everybody in advance or else it is just reckless. Read more

Wow, I expected to me face palming about the guy driving the APC around town with the machine gun... but the cops completely stole it. They admit to trying to FIND something to charge him with? If you are digging through laws specifically to try to stretch something to fit, you are doing it wrong. The spirit of the Read more

I love how here in my part of rural 'MURICA it would have been the boatload of drunks shooting loaded guns at him arrested. Instead this story is so UN'MURICAN because the people didn't rise up to the challenge of being "shot" at. "BUNCH O'PUSSIES MAKING EAGLES CRY RIGHT 'CHERE" Read more

Wait! Need more footage of field reporter! Read more

How else are you supposed to go to the grocery store in Detroit these days? I thought armored cars were the new detroit soccermom minivan. Read more

In Michigan you can only light off Fireworks the day before, the day of and the day after a holiday. Read more