Archive for June 5th, 2008

While I can’t claim to be a junkyard photographer of Lost America’s caliber, I do my best to capture junkyard images that tell a story. The other day, I went to the local yard…
with a member of Belvedere Adrian’s LeMons team, to help them pull some B-body suspension parts for their bent Belvedere race car… »

Matt Farah takes the Garage419 997 GT3 on the track and hits the pits at the Porsche California Festival of Speed. -Garage419

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newVideoPlayer(”TataNanoDrive_Jalopnik.flv”, 506, 423,””);Ever since the Tata Nano set the world ablaze with the promise of the $2,500 car, we’ve been anxious to see one actually driving around. Alas, courtesy of a couple of dudes with a camera we now have the video of the half-pint people mover actually moving people. And unlike those fancy American… »

In our opinion, Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” was never better than in the early 1990’s. In particular, there were three comedians that we were particularly fond of when they appeared late on saturday nights. The first was A. Whitney Brown, who almost no one has heard of in the last 10 years. He had… »

The blowout Choose Your Eternity polls are fun, but we really enjoy the nail-bitingly close races… which is what we got yesterday, with the Roots-blown Old Beetle just barely beating the Pro Street Peugeot in a 175-165 vote split. Does that mean a German car just upset Project Car Hell GigaTeraPower France, or does the… »

We’re not sure if this is a testament to French drivers or just Peugeot owners in general, but AvMap has announced a partnership with Peugeot for a breathalyzer-equipped GPS navigation unit called the Geosat 6 Drive Safety. The unit will be an available option for the Peugeot 107 Sweet Years. The driver simply blows into… »

As you may be aware of, Suzuki entered the World Rally Championship this season with their compact SX4, so far the small Suzuki has been doing quite well especially in Greece where both cars managed to score po…
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newVideoPlayer(”chuck-taylor.flv”, 494, 491,””);Think two-wheeled auto-balancing transport is the wave of the future, you Segway-driving nerd? Well, a man by the name of Charles Taylor beat Dean Kamen to the punch over fifty years ago — and did it with only one wheel! That’s right, Taylor invented and patented a mechanical system able to power, brake… »

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The ongoing saga of THE SILENT KILLERS continues to unfold. Today we encounter researchers at Stanford University demonstrating their external speaker system for the Toyota Prius, designed to warn the blind, children and other susceptible parties that an unusually silent vehicle is on the prowl.
Congress is currently evaluating a bill that would establish… »

Let’s say you’re living in a van, down by the causeway, and you’re interested in more square footage. The fool’s way to that goal of jammin’ mega-Econoline is to simply buy a retired school bus, or maybe even a still-running tractor/trailer combo. That or you could just hack off the very back of your van… »