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Here’s Yet Another Air-Cooled Volkswagen You’ve Never Heard Of And This Time It’s Kind Of Like A Jeep
While I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a particularly religious man, I am starting to believe in some sort of demigod that conjures up strange and obscure air-cooled Volkswagens for me to learn about during times of crisis, to, you know, make the pain go away. I suspect the current coronavirus lockdown is the crisis, and…
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This Old VW Vanagon Brochure Contains An Interesting And Unintentional Hidden Brain Teaser
In these trying times, you should do whatever you can to soothe yourself, bring yourself quiet, almost meditative joy. However you go about it is your business, whether its yoga, large amounts of gin, vigorous, almost violent masturbation, whatever. For me, it’s digging through huge stacks of old car brochures (and maybe that other one…
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We Can Now Watch Google’s Secret Self-Driving Cars From 2009
Google announced in late 2010 that for the past year, Californian drivers had been sharing the road with a secret self-driving car project. Many years and one death at the hands of rival Uber later, we can finally see 2009’s testing footage.
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This Is What An Almost Completely Paused Air Travel Industry Looks Like
A friend of mine and fellow-Yugo owner (also a former actual movie Herbie owner, and now an owner of one of the Porsche racecars from Ford vs. Ferrari), Tory, works for a major airline, and was taking one last trip before going on leave. Tory sent me some pictures and a little video of what…