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A Car Detail To Appreciate: Wagons With Rear Bumper Guards That Are Also Steps
When I was a little kid, the two cars my family had were a 1968 Volkswagen Beetle (Semi-Auto! And I’ve written about how important it was to me before) and a 1973 Ford LTD Country Squire, a massive, fake-wood-paneled station wagon. I liked that big-arse Squire, but there’s three things I remember about it most…
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I Looked At A Porsche 911 Weird And Somehow It Became A Pickup Truck
You ever have something stupid in your head and you can’t shake it until you, in some way, see it through? I feel like an embarrassing number of my life decisions are the result of this and, just so you know, so is this post. You see yesterday I saw a picture of a side…
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Imaginary Car From An Imaginary Country: The Svindle Collective Truth Bag Cars
While almost every major economic system throughout history has at one point or another been accused of being corrupt or run by crooks, a giant scam, or all of that, there’s only one country in the world that truly embraced people’s seemingly inherent predilection to crime: the Svindle Collective. The Svindle Collective is the only…
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Autonomous Cars Were Predicted In A Wizard of Oz Book
I don’t think we’ve ever really covered much about L. Frank Baum’s famous stories about the land Oz here before, mostly because the stories (and the famous movie) are pretty thin on cars. But that’s not to say there aren’t any things like cars. In fact, in one of the later Oz books, there’s something…