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{Wheels.5.3365}: Jil {rabbit} Mon, 30 Jun 2014 20:55:08 EDT (7 lines)

I didn't mention it in the story, but I broke a rad hose on the Neon.
(Not faulting the car, because these things weren't really intended
to be driven after such long storage, but still ... it would be the
Neon!)

The '56 race car vapor-locked on me, too. Spent half the route
coasting!

{Wheels.5.3366}: Jil {rabbit} Mon, 30 Jun 2014 20:55:58 EDT (2 lines)

I love that Citroen. My brother had one when I was a child. I threw
up in the back of it ...

{Wheels.5.3367}: Joseph Kang {jsk} Tue, 01 Jul 2014 09:51:59 EDT (6 lines)

I almost forgot to say:

The spoiler on that 69 Charger Daytona! And people complain about some
of the spoilers you find on cars these days...

Ha!

{Wheels.5.3368}: Jil {rabbit} Tue, 01 Jul 2014 09:53:22 EDT (3 lines)

My brother owned Chrysler dealerships. He said when he got in a
Superbird, it sat so long on the lot that he took off the wing and
nose cone before he could sell it.

{Wheels.5.3369}: Joseph Kang {jsk} Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:09:08 EDT (1 line)

Ha!

{Wheels.5.3370}: Jil {rabbit} Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:24:49 EDT (2 lines)

And if the car's still around, I wonder if the owner has figured out
exactly what he has!

{Wheels.5.3371}: Joe Gordon {darmund} Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:19:08 EDT (2 lines)

IIRC correctly the Superbird is one of the dew production cars that
actually needed the wing to keep the car from flipping at high speed

{Wheels.5.3372}: Jil {rabbit} Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:23:25 EDT (2 lines)

It did provide downforce, but I doubt it was required to avoid
flipping, at least at any speeds it would reach on regular roads.

{Wheels.5.3373}: Joe Gordon {darmund} Wed, 02 Jul 2014 23:51:29 EDT (HTML)

{Wheels.5.3374}: Joe Gordon {darmund} Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:39:53 EDT (HTML)

{Wheels.5.3375}: Jil {rabbit} Sat, 05 Jul 2014 07:35:53 EDT (2 lines)

Several companies are aiming luxury models at the Chinese markets;
I'm guessing we won't see one here.

{Wheels.5.3376}: Joseph Kang {jsk} Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:36:59 EDT (3 lines)

Cars that would have been ten years old (based on 2004 MY) this year:

"http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/08/9-cars-mia-after-decade-ford-mazda-porsche/"

{Wheels.5.3377}: Joseph Kang {jsk} Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:16:13 EDT (3 lines)

OMG.

"http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/10/ebay-find-1946-tucker-torpedo-replica-buick-riviera/"

{Wheels.5.3378}: Joe Gordon {darmund} Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:38:03 EDT (5 lines)

Joseph, interesting list. I remain kind of mystified as to why sales of
ALL the Japanese sports cars fell off a cliff at pretty much the same
time. The Supra, Celica, Prelude, RX, all of them. And it wasn't like
there was a recession here in the US, the economy was humming along
grandly.

{Wheels.5.3379}: Doug White {dwhite} Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:07:57 EDT (1 line)

Wow, that Riviera is way out there.

{Wheels.5.3380}: Jil {rabbit} Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:09:10 EDT (4 lines)

The Aveo copy on the list isn't quite accurate. The Sonic isn't a
rebadged Aveo. It's an American-made car (and quite good, actually).
The car still built in Korea is the Spark (which isn't quite good,
actually).

{Wheels.5.3381}: Jil {rabbit} Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:11:33 EDT (2 lines)

And I need to bleach my eyes after that Riviera/Tucker ... whatever
it's supposed to be.

{Wheels.5.3382}: Joseph Kang {jsk} Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:19:59 EDT (4 lines)

Here's Autblog's piece from their time at the Dodge 100th anniversary
event.

"http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/03/dodge-100-year-anniversary-videos/"

{Wheels.5.3383}: Jil {rabbit} Fri, 18 Jul 2014 06:37:14 EDT (2 lines)

Nice article. I really like the transition of how the old cars became
the new ones.

{Wheels.5.3384}: Joseph Kang {jsk} Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:13:42 EDT (3 lines)

This is nice. NISMO does its thing with the Note (Versa Note in NA):

"http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/24/nissan-note-nismo-official/"

{Wheels.5.3385}: Jil {rabbit} Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:34:52 EDT (1 line)

I saw that photo - it looks fantastic.

{Wheels.5.3386}: Jil {rabbit} Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:37:27 EDT (10 lines)

My new favorite car site: http://autoblopnik.com/

It's a sendup of car reviews and news, and in some cases it's more of
an inside joke that some people won't get, but it's hilarious. I love
the fake ads ... the "Bick Skruth" is a slap at Jack Baruth, an
American auto journalist who is so full of himself, it's hard to get
him through a door. He also spends a lot of pixels talking about how
he's the only auto writer on the planet who isn't on the take from
automakers (although I've seen him belly up to more than one
automaker-sponsored bar...).

{Wheels.5.3387}: Joseph Kang {jsk} Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:38:46 EDT (1 line)

Nice! Thanks for that one. Looking forward to perusing it.

{Wheels.5.3388}: Jil {rabbit} Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:58:51 EDT (1 line)

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{Wheels.5.3389}: Joe Gordon {darmund} Mon, 28 Jul 2014 23:07:14 EDT (6 lines)

As far as American auto journalists being full of themselves, David E
Davis and Brock Yates set that bar REALLY, spectacularly high. No,
higher than that. When you spend no less than 3 of your monthly columns
in one calendar year going on and on about how you deliberately set out
to fuck up a shitty Ford rental car as badly as you could you've got
issues. (That was Yates by the way.)

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