Blog Archives: February 2009

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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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Embargo Broken: Rolls-Royce 200EX Concept First Photos

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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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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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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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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