With an eye still firmly on gift giving as we are now a mere 12 days from the Big Holiday (11 if you exchange gifts on Big Holiday Eve) let’s talk Hot Wheels. Yep, every car junkie’s first tiny car turns 40 this year. Was it really 1967 when me and my next door neighbor […]
Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Shorty
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If you have an car-gadget lover on your Christmas list and not a clue what to buy for him or her, look no farther than Amazon’s list of best-selling items in the mega online retailers automotive department. Currently the top ten items on the list (all of which were in stock as of the writing […]
Posted on December 11th, 2007 by Shorty
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Via Engadget, via Far East Gizmos, I picked up the tidbit that Smith Electric Vehicles is bringing its Newton truck to the United States, a conveyance being billed as the “world’s largest all electric truck” at 24,000 lbs. (gross vehicle weight.)
Powered by 278-volt batteries and using a 120 kilowatt motor, the Netwon can travel 150 […]
Posted on December 9th, 2007 by Shorty
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There are clubs in existence for almost every make and model of car: mustangs, corvettes, pt cruisers - the list is endless. Most of them feature photo galleries, classified ads, and articles about how to completely trick out your ride.
Then there’s Monte Millennium Generations.
Established in 2004, Monte Millennium Generations focuses on the Chevrolet Monte Carlo, […]
Posted on December 7th, 2007 by QueenMab
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Like most geek-oriented folks I’ve watched the episode of “Dirty Jobs” where Mike Rowe runs around with the guy who collects cooking oil from restaurants and turns it into biodiesel in his garage. And while the idea of cheap, if not virtually free fuel, is appealing to me, the cobbled together equipment transcended the concept […]
Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Shorty
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I’m a little late running across this photo on OhGizmo.com of the roulette rims Lenso was displaying at the 2007 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, but it’s not an all-that-surprising creation from a company known for its custom parts and accessories.
If you’ve never taken a gander at Lenso Wheels, there’s a pretty good selection on […]
Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Shorty
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As a child I used to watch the man at the local gas station remove the dip stick from my Dad’s Ford pick-up, clean it off with the filthy rag in his hip pocket, then replace and remove it again to check the level of the oil. Sometimes he’d deem it acceptable and sometimes he’d […]
Posted on December 1st, 2007 by Shorty
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