Jalopnik (Free subscription) | yesterday
Those of you who followed the saga of Mad_Science's LeMons 6 Series know that some difficulties held them back at the Buttonwillow Histrionics over the summer. They've made a few changes since then. Yes, we've long wanted to see a big German car get turned into a Plymouth Super Bird, and now our dream has come true! A little sheet metal, a lot of Bondo, and the number 43 is all you need.
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Filed under: Aftermarket , SEMA Show , Classics , Coupe , Performance , Dodge HPP Daytona - Click above for high-res image gallery When we saw the HPP Daytona at this year's SEMA show , two things became very apparent. One, we'd really like to drive it. Two, we need better pictures of it. See, the poor thing got itself shoved into a tight booth at SEMA and we just couldn't get too many decent shots....
My West Sacramento Photo of the Day (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Plymouth Valiant was manufactured by the Plymouth division of Chrysler Corporation from 1960 to 1976. It was created to give the company an entry in the compact car market which was emerging in the late 1950s.
CARSCOOP (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Yes, you read correctly; up until today, the asking price on eBay for this customized 1988 BMW 6-Series Coupe was a mouth-dropping quarter of a million dollars. Almost as insane as the $950,000 for the pipe-dream Plymouth Road Runner Concept we told you about in a recent posting. However, after a truckload of questions and suggestions but not a...
eGMCarTech (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
What you’re looking at here is a modern interpretation of the Plymouth Road Runner based on the 2009 Dodge Challenger with a 6.1L HEMI turbocharged V8 engine. The concept is being put together by an independent designer Michael Leonhard, who is selling the car once he’s done building it. The 6.1 HEMI turbocharged V8 allows for a total [...]
Straightline (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Yep, a cool million. Actually, the Buy It Now is only $950,000, but who knows what the tax bill will be on this one-off concept. Designer Michael Leonhard says the winner of this auction will get a modern-day Road...
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Filed under: Truck , Etc. , Technology , Work Sure, a six-foot protrusion sticking off the rear end of any vehicle is kinda funny looking. Unless we're talking about a Porsche 917/30 or a Plymouth Superbird. Those cars have some very fine rear extensions. Okay, fine - a six-foot protrusion looks a little bit weird when growing out of a semi-truck's rear. Happy? But a boat-tailed tractor trailer might...
Madison County Record (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
A bus driver has filed suit against the woman who he says decided to switch lanes directly in front of him, crashing into his front end. Leon D. Buehler filed a lawsuit Nov. 6 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against Larisha R. Adkins. Buehler claims he was driving a 2001 Gillig Bus west on Interstate 64 near milepost 6.8 in Canteen on Nov. 24, 2007, at about 6:39 p.m. when Adkins, who was driving...
CARSCOOP (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
A little over a year ago, we showed you some conceptual designs for a modern day successor to Plymouth's 1971-1975 Road Runner based on today's Dodge Challenger. The concept was penned by Michael Leonhard and featured in the August/September issue of Mopar Enthusiast magazine. Then, it was nothing more than a vision of what the car would look...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Get ready for the final race of the 2009 season , taking place in two weeks at chilly Thunderhill Raceway! More cars than ever before, and the most staggeringly wrong collection of vehicles ever seen on the same track. Ah, the Arse Freeze! Who could forget the incredible end-over-end Datsun B210 flip at the 2007 race? Or the upside-down '66 Plymouth Belvedere at last year's race? This year's race...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Traditional publishing is in a lot of trouble. Why? They just can't get their heads around media consumers. In the good ol' days, no one cared about readers. If you were the only game in town, you were the only place for advertisers to blow their money before blowing cocaine. Then Al Gore invented Teh Internets and messed up the model by giving Joe Average the power to look at LOLcats instead of Maureen...
Car News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Yes, it's a new Dodge Challenger wearing a Charger Daytona costume, but updated for today's muscle car aficionados. Under the hood sits a standard 5.7-liter HEMI V8, further proving the point that when it comes to the Daytona/Superbird, it's what's on the outside that counts! Luckily for us, HPP did a pretty decent job on the outside. While we're positive that it's the same dimensions as the mondo-sized...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
We're convinced BusinessWeek intentionally created its "Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years" list to offend Jalopnik reader sensibilities as much as possible. We've pulled out ten cars that simply have no place on this list. Two-minutes hate ahead. Car: Tata Nano Place on the list: 49 Reason it's BS: The Tata Nano isn't ugly, it's simply space efficient. Given the constraints of price,...
Madison County Record (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The plaintiff in a Granite City car accident suit is asking Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack to find that the defendant was liable for hitting him. Plaintiff Rudolph Muzzarelli filed a move for summary judgment Oct. 26 on the liability issue in his suit and a request for a continuance of the trial set Nov. 2. Muzzarelli is suing Matthew Evans for allegedly hitting his car and injuring him...
The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
While the human Seven Deadly Sins – lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride – clearly play a part in any automaker’s fall from grace, Detroit cultivated its own favorite deadly transgressions. Chrysler’s recurring dirty little habit was premature ejection: spurting cars out of the factory door before they were ready. The shoddily built [...]
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