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Sunday, July 24, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
blog.1aauto.com is giving Hooniverse competition on great stories and interesting rare stuff, like this red Delorean, and 76 Road Runner
0 comments Posted by st at 8:08 PM
In 1982, Delorean Cadillac in Cleveland Ohio had some Delorean’s on the lot that they were having trouble selling. Rather than giving them away at a loss or sitting on them forever, they decided they might sell if they were more colorful. The problem is painting stainless. So Delorean Cadillac had PPG come up with a paint that would adhere to the stainless. They succeeded and before long, several DMC’s were painted a variety of fun colors like red, purple, and blue. http://blog.1aauto.com/2011/06/30/you-want-to-see-the-candy-apple-red-delorean/#more-6395
http://blog.1aauto.com/2011/06/27/this-road-runner-took-full-advantage-of-the-1970s/
plus great stuff like a Bentley stuck on the beach, a GTOmino and a Mustabird!
For all of these: http://blog.1aauto.com/ is the place
Thursday, April 7, 2011
the El Cajon cruise on every Wednesday night is back on for the summer, here are some of the interesting things I saw
0 comments Posted by st at 10:01 PM
Everytime I see the El Guapo taxi I notice something new, this time I found the rear license plate cool... for the galleries I took of it last year so you can see the interior and the progession : http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/another-look-at-el-guapo-paint-has-been.html 
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Sunday, September 14, 2008
"Pidgin German" dashboard control labels such as Das Glimmerblinken for the light switch, Der Drizzleflippen for wiper switch, Die Warmercougher for choke, Das Schmokegedunka for ashtray, and Der Puttersparken for the ignition. http://www.bugstories.com/viewtopic.php?t=5&sid=91ea60b6a46219a6a37b865d395fc7e6I love this kind of humor! I first saw it in April at the Coronado car show (last photo of the set http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/04/cool-stuff-i-found-at-coronado-car-show.html ) in this car http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/04/1951-mercedes-170da-in-afrika-corps.html
or in German...
Das Glimmerblinken" (für Lichtschalter), "Das Drizzleflippen" (für den Scheibenwischer), "Die Warmercougher" (für Starthilfezugknopf), "Das Schmokegedunka" (Ascher) oder "Der Puttersparken" (für Zündung).http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/dokument/dokument.html?id=46272808&top=SPIEGEL
One not on this bug is "Der Coolercougherventenflippen" for the vent lever http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=256567
1971 Impala, one of 497,000 made, and I doubt we'll ever see another one again. Strange trunk shape and design though.
