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Who invented cash for clunkers? Would you believe AMC?
Photo by gab482. Car companies will do just about anything to move cars in that doldrums period that starts just after the New Year and lasts until the onset of warmer weather. Witness the many and...
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Four-Links – hot rodding exported, cars on sticks, U.S. 30, recycling Maseratis
* Came across three different discussions about hot rodding outside American borders this week. First, a H.A.M.B. thread on traditional hot rodding in France; second, another H.A.M.B. thread about the...
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Four-Links – roving Landy, Tjaarda teardropper, the return of c4c?, Jeepers...
* What’s cooler than a Forward Control Land Rover? How about taking one on various expeditions around the world, as this South African couple did? (via, kinda) * John Tjaarda, working for Briggs...
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Four-Links – Fords of the Fifties, Toyota auto show, more early snowmobiles,...
* Over at Dean’s Garage, they uploaded a whole cache of 1950s Ford photos, courtesy Mike Parris and Howard Fisher, the former of which wrote the book, “Fords of the Fifties.” Lot of great stuff from...
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Four-Links – Volvo’s dune buggy, tin toy car show, giant hubcap collection...
* We were all saddened by the loss of Bob Sinclair earlier this year, and it’s partly because he did cool stuff like this: Build a Volvo dune buggy (called the Burro) and race it in the Baja 1000 in...
View Article…I don’t want to get all Hemmings on you…
Uh, thanks, Niedermeyer. The list of all the clunkers turned in under CARS has been making some headlines, both over at TTAC and Jalopnik, for some of the decidedly un-clunker cars (a GNX? Really?)...
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Four-Links – Michelin’s tire-testing rig, SASCO closing, Kirkland concours,...
* In 1972, Michelin wanted to test truck tires at high speeds, but worried about the disastrous consequences of high-speed blowouts in big rigs, so they built the PLR, a mishmash of Citroën DS parts...
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Four-Links – stolen Citroën, save this Minor, Franz Ferdinand’s car, hot...
* I don’t want to make this a regular feature of the Saturday Four-Links, but this is the third week in a row we’ve come across a stolen car while putting the Four-Links together. In this case, it’s a...
View ArticleL.A. Times: All old cars are dirty, need to be crushed
I’ve received a few emails about a recent L.A. Times story that’s been making the rounds with a quote from YT in it, defending the 25-year exemption inserted into the federal cash for clunkers program,...
View ArticleCash for clunkers shutting down
About time. So let’s look past the environmental malarky. Let’s look past the “give the middle class a break” hoo-ha. The real reason for this, we all know, was to help out the automakers. Yes, I do...
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Congress votes to add $2bn more to cash for clunkers
I’m sure by now you’ve read the news that the Senate voted to add $2 billion to the cash for clunkers funding. (UPDATE: El presidente signed it this morning.) We need a national movement of people...
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Toyota hates your Land Cruiser
Are you an FJ Owner? Then Toyota wants to crush that classic four-wheel drive vehicle in favor of something confidence-inspiring and cool, like a Yaris. The first few seconds of this commercial...
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Cash for clunkers runs out of money; gov’t gonna throw more money at it. Who...
So the cash for clunkers program has been suspended. Or not. Autoblog reports that dealers have requested $95.9 million from the program – about a tenth of the $1 billion set aside that was supposed...
View ArticleCARA-mia mine
Here are two items we’re not touching: H.R. 520, the Accelerated Retirement of Inefficient Vehicles Act of 2009 (“Cash for Clunkers”); and President Obama’s proposed revision to the Clean Air Act,...
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Cash for Clunkers legislation threatening old car hobby.
From SEMA: SEMA Call To Oppose Federal “Cash for Clunkers” Program Diamond Bar, CA. December 29, 2008: Washington lawmakers are drafting a large economic stimulus package to help create jobs and...
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