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25 Feb
Blog: Fast Lane Daily
You're Doing it Wrong!
Cheetos Boredom Buster The internet is always a valued source for getting car news, car buying tips, and even answers to your mechanical issues that plague your beater. In my years of experience dealing with cars, I've found that the online car enthusiast message boards and forums are s
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24 Feb
Blog: Garage419
Corvette: Modded
I've been waiting for 2 months to finally post these pictures, but my beloved 1998 Corvette is finally back from the shop, with all sorts of goodies put on! I got the car new, and she has just 20,000 on the clock. Up until August of 2008 it was bone stock. Now, thanks to some great people, it fee
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18 Feb
Blog: Garage419
2009 Mercury Mariner VOGA Edition Review
Valentine’s Day is a good excuse to go somewhere with the girl I love, so snowboarding in Vermont seemed like a good call, and indeed it was. But wait a minute, I have three cars, and none of them will do! The Mini? Yeah right. Front wheel drive and summer tires pretty much took that out of the e
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18 Feb
Blog: Fast Lane Daily
Japanese Papercraft for Car Geeks: Is Masking Tape Allowed?
Cheetos Boredom Buster Back in the 6th century, China's Sui Dynasty introduced papercraft to Japan, part of the countries' free-flowing cultural trade of the time. That became what we know now as origami. Behavioral experts say origami stimulates the interaction between the right and
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17 Feb
Blog: Fast Lane Daily
Production CTS Coupe Revealed!
GM just unknowingly released the first picture of the production-spec Cadillac CTS Coupe. Ok, maybe not so unknowingly. After seeing all the reports of Chrysler's leak of the 2010 300C and Grand Cherokee in their Viability Report, I figured I'd take a gander at GM's. Finding a slew of new 2009
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12 Feb
Blog: Garage419
Snobootz - A Better Version of Tire Chains?
I have always been stubborn about getting snow tires or putting chains on my car in the winter. After all, I don't want to run the risk of having the wheels scratched when the new tires are put on, and I certainly don't want to have a set of chains rattling around, metal-on-metal. Who even knows wh
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11 Feb
Blog: Fast Lane Daily
Formula One Racing Porn
Cheetos Boredom Buster In the past five years, the internet has become saturated with car videos. Filtering through the mess of burn-outs, crashes, and ricers can be a mind-numbing process. But even with dedicated automotive video portals such as streetfire.net that help filter out t
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10 Feb
Blog: Garage419
Ultra-rare Porsche-inspired Boat For Sale on Ebay!
Believe it or not, I spent the evening finding out if there was a Yacht Apocalypse to friend the Carpocalypse on Facebook, and there is! I sat in front of my computer for hours just giggling at how cheap a 35' yacht is. The answer? CHEAP. I found a nice one as low as ,000. Sure, it was from 1982,
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10 Feb
Blog: Garage419
Garage419 Goes to Washington D.C.! Saturday 2/21/09
Here's an idea for a show: Let's blatantly rip off Top Gear with no shame, and race a Dodge Challenger SRT8 against Delta and Amtrak from our offices in New York to the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial Fountain in Washington, D.C. Think that's a good idea? Well good, because we're doing it. It's all goin
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04 Feb
Blog: Fast Lane Daily
Bring a Trailer Fun
Cheetos Boredom Buster Sometimes I get lost in all the automotive news that crosses my desk each day. Working as the producer of FLD means I not only have to find interesting stories before 9:00am, but also tamp down the latest Derek D. temper tantrum and pound my fist on computer wor
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