NASCAR prayer (video)
[Video Link] A pre-race prayer at the NASCAR Nationwide series race in Nashville Tennessee, on July 23, 2011. "We want to thank you, Lord, for these mighty machines.... Lord I want to thank you for my...
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Extreme DIY car mods: Volvo with a wood-burning stove for heat
Wood burns in a stove as Pascal Prokop drives his totally baller 1990 Volvo 240 station wagon during cold winter weather on a road near the town of Mettmenstetten, some 25 kilometres south of Zurich,...
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Boing Boing's Happy Mutant Mobile... so far!
Illustration: Rob Ullman Want an all-expense paid trip to Los Angeles? Boing Boing is planning to build out a Happy Mutant Mobile and we're seeking your help! Our sponsors at Ford have agreed to...
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Boing Boing's Happy Mutant Mobile: the creation continues!
Illustration: Danny Hellman The creative conceptualizing of our Boing Boing Happy Mutant Mobile continues! Our sponsors at Ford have agreed to customize, modify, and transform a 2014 Ford Transit...
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How car crash test photography is done
When you're finished, here's more car crash test porn from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. (via Laughing Squid)
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Video: amazing record-breaking parallel parking
No back and forth bullshit when Han Yue made the Guinness World Record for the tightest parallel park, 8 cm (3.15") in a MINI 3-door Hatch, during the China Drift Championship.
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Watch: DeSotos in space!
A fantastic TV commercial for DeSoto automobiles from 1957. (via Weird Universe)
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Fantastic car ad by stop motion master PES
PES created this advertisement for Honda. I hope they're grateful.
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Watch this incredible car crash (after which the driver walks away)
On certain days each week, the Nürburgring Nordschleife race track in Germany is open to the public to drive any road-legal vehicle at insane speeds around the challenging course. The amazing part of...
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The worst traffic jam you will hopefully never experience
Beijing, China. If this fascinates you, so long as you are not sitting in it, I highly recommend Tom Vanderbilt's fantastic book "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)."...
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Watch TV news reporter barely escape car plowing into him
It's a lucky day for KTVU reporter Alex Savidge and camera operator Vaughan Chip. The two were covering a train derailment east of San Francisco when a car was hit and came barreling right toward...
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Car crash video: tailgaters suck, but so do brake-checkers
Of course, brake-checking is a terrible idea because it could lead to a disastrous accident, and the brake-checker could indeed be liable.
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What does a car crash-proof human look like? Odd. Very odd.
Melbourne, Australia's Transport Accident Commission commissioned an artist, trauma surgeon, and road safety engineer to imagine and design a human built to survive car wrecks. The result is Graham,...
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Desk made from old jeep hood
This Jeep Desk made from a reclaimed hood is approximately $1700 from Canett Furniture: Primary material: Metal Secondary material: Wood | Primary pattern: Worn out Secondary pattern: Plain Jeep Desk...
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Jailed driver used frying pan as replacement steering wheel
A fellow in Adelaide, Australia was arrested for several traffic offenses including using a modified (and magic-markered) frying pan as a steering wheel. From the South Australia Police: Further...
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Watch this time-lapse Lego build of life-size 1964 Ford Mustang
To be specific, it's a model of a first year Mustang coupe, known as a 1964 1/2 model. From LEGOLAND Florida Resort where it's on permanent display: Made out of 194,900 LEGO and DUPLO® bricks, the...
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Ah yes, the short-lived 1950s fad of illuminated tires
In the 1950s, car enthusiasts began playing around with illuminated tires made of translucent synthetic rubber that could be tinted any color. Goodyear soon got in the game in case it took off, which...
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Watch a massive spool of cable roll down the highway
A spool of cable fell off a truck on Route 40 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, turning the highway into a hyperrealistic video game.
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Spy shots of the Tesla Model 3
Jalopnik posted spy photos of a Tesla Model 3 that that is likely "damn near production-spec." It makes me miss my 1986 Honda Accord hatchback. (photos: Brian Williams/Spiedbilde/Jalopnik)
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