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Category Archives: Classics

FAST (VID): Cranky You-Tuber Sets Up ‘08-’09 Fastest Rides, Grin …

22-Jun-09

[With thanks to roykeane11]

HUH?: These Cars won Awards?

25-Jan-09

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Dishonorable Mention: The 10 Most Embarrassing Award Winners in Automotive History

Don’t tell anyone, but we’re not always right. Neither are those other magazines.

By The CARandDRIVER.com Staff

Here and now, in vivid HTML, Car and Driver formally apologizes for naming the Renault Alliance to the 1983 10Best Cars list. For the last 26 years, it’s been [...]

BARRETT-JACKSON: Fins, Chrome and Charity Featured

18-Jan-09

SCOTTSDALE, AZ. 
As the flow of the auction hit its stride, Saturday saw bidders with bigger budgets and more excitment on the floor at Barrett-Jackson. SPEED TV was there for about 10 hours of live action from Scottdale.
Billed as the ‘World’s Largest Collector Car Auction’, B-J features all types of collector cars from the so called antique [...]

CLASSICS: Buyers Year at Barrett-Jackson

16-Jan-09

SCOTTSDALE, AZ. If you love cars, you are watching all or part of the annual Barrett-Jackson car auction on SPEED TV. Grumpy loves cars. Lots of cars. I thrill to see the beauties that cross the block at each B-J event. Looks like the troubled financial times have made a dent in the hobby.
I am [...]

NASCAR: Jimmie Johnson Could make History

21-Oct-08

Cale Yarborough, to this moment is the only man to win NA$CAR’s championship in 3 consecutive years. Driving for the legendary Junior Johnson, Cale captured the Winston Cup Championship in 1976, 77 and 78.
Now, thirty years later, Jimmie Johnson may be poised to join Cale in that elite accomplishment. If the #48 Lowe’s team [...]

NASCAR (vid): Just One Dega & Beyond Hint … Or Two, Grin …

03-Oct-08

Ok, ok, yeah, I know!! Name’s on the door, and yet I’ve been a no-show around here lately, and I’m terribly sorry about that … lotsa’ good reasons, but not ONE excuse worthy of you OR Grump for his tireless work around this rather emptier ‘office’ lately.  All I can say with true sincerity here [...]

GRUMPY: The ending of an Era

26-Sep-08

The recent passing of my friend has ushered in a short period of time where I have experienced much joy. That may sound wrong, so let me explain.
Grumpy is a ‘Car Guy’. Car guys have their own language. We can talk to each other in a form of communication that baffles the ordinary run of [...]

ANGLER: HELP “OPERATION SOLDIER CARE” & “eMail Our Military” Now!

18-Aug-08

HONOR, COURAGE, EMAIL
The Official eMail Our Military Blog
Supporting Our Military, One eMail At A Time
The 11th Hour
Ok, not exactly. But, there are only 11 hours left for us to get the job done and reach 100% of our goal.As of 12:15 PM est Operation Soldier Care is at 56% and has raised $2811.00 for [...]

NASCAR: CONGRATULATIONS, “Operation Soldier Care”!!! Now, RACE Fans, Let’s Do OUR Parts!

17-Aug-08

TRULY, AN AWARD WELL-EARNED:

Blog of the Day Awards for Saturday August 16, 2008:
A Blog of the Day Award goes to Operation Soldier Care!

HONOR, COURAGE, EMAIL

The Official eMail Our Military Blog

Supporting Our Military, One eMail At A Time

Final Weekend to Help Get Packages to our Military

This is our final weekend to make it [...]

NASCAR: Dale Earnhardt, Sr. & “Die-Casts”. Let’s REALLY Take A LOOK At What’s ‘Intimidating’, Shall We?

16-Aug-08

“Back In Black”, INDEED.
Gotta’ thank Grump for this one, because his post on this new “#3 Die-Cast BS-series-BS (did I mention BS?)” subject earlier today (along with our subsequent comments,) inspired me to take yet another look at what REALLY counts in terms of remembering not just a “legend” or a “merchandising tool” to some [...]