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How to Convert Your Car to Run on Vegetable Oil Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
What if you could refuel your car at a restaurant instead of a gas station? Some enterprising environmentalists have discovered that restaurants will gladly give away their used fryer oil, since they usually have to pay to dispose of it. This oil can be filtered and used to run cars and trucks that have been converted to run on vegetable oil. Your exhaust might smell like fries (no joke), but you’ll be recycling, emitting up to 70% less CO2, and saving yourself some money.
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OK on Nevada plate: 'HOE' on Chevy Tahoe Posted: 5 months ago by kakana
A Las Vegas man won a courtroom battle Wednesday with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his "HOE" license plate, which the agency tried to cancel on grounds that he was using a slang reference to prostitutes.
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Firefighter in Japan drives 20 years without licence Posted: 1 year ago by topofall
A Japanese firefighter who has driven trucks and ambulances hundreds of times over 20 years was sacked after it emerged he never had a driver's licence.
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Chinese Deliver Live Rats to Restaurants Posted: 2 years ago by maxriter
Central China, plagued with about two billion rats forced out by a flooded lake, trucks the live rodents to the south to be used in restaurant dishes.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 37 [+].
Industrial Designer Schreckengost Dies Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
Viktor Schreckengost, an artist and prolific industrial designer whose ubiquitous works ranged from familiar toys and White House porcelain to innovative trucks and even lawn mowers, has died. He was 101.
*post link goes to his website, here is the obit
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2-Wheeled Segway Lets You Sit Posted: 8 months ago by suebe
GM and Segway announced that they are working together to develop a two-wheeled, two-seat electric vehicle designed to be a fast, safe, inexpensive and clean alternative to traditional cars and trucks for cities across the world.
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 193 [+].
Florida moves to ban fake testicles on vehicles Posted: 2 years ago by 2longdogs
Senate lawmakers in Florida have voted to ban the fake bull testicles that dangle from the trailer hitches of many trucks and cars throughout the state.
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Revisiting The Generous Salesman Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
Car salesmen get called a lot of things. “Living saint” is rarely one of them.
And yet CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman says he really does believe that’s what he found at a Chevy dealer outside Portland, Ore.
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Orly Moving Posted: 2 years ago by mahler87
I saw one of these trucks on the road today but I couldn't get a picture. So here is their website!
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Run for your lives! Santa's hat is on a pole! It might fall!! Run!! Posted: 11 months ago by 2manyusernames
Students at Gonville & Caius college in England placed a Santa's hat on top a spire 60' in the air. Thinking that this soft and oh so light felt/wool hat might be a hazard if it fell and floated to the ground where it could gently alight on someone, authorities called for 3 speeding steel fire trucks weighing many tons each to bring it down.
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Honda's new pitch: Old naked guys Posted: 1 year ago by MeMe
When it comes to selling cars and trucks, most people are familiar with usual bag of tricks: beautiful scenery, beautiful women and brawny vehicles. A recent commercial for Honda’s Pilot takes things in the exact opposite direction, and it’s a refreshing change.
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Polar inertia : journal of nomadic and popular culture. Posted: 2 years ago by wildminou
Very nice Photography website, where each month, many thematic pictures series are presented. For examples, ice cream trucks, karaoke bars, air raid sirens, tokyo street vending machines. Worth the look.
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Excuse Me, But I Have A Goat In My Trunk Posted: 3 months ago by suebe
A woman really got the goat of auto repairman James Prusci. She went to Tires Plus, wanting a belt replaced on her Chevy Malibu. While he was doing paperwork, she said she had a goat in her trunk. "A what?" he asked. She told him she planned to butcher it.
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Delayed delivery of trucks led to Marine deaths Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
Stateside authorities saw the hulking vehicles, which can cost as much as a $1 million each, as a financial threat to programs aimed at developing lighter vehicles that were years from being fielded.
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Redskins' Hall of Famer John Riggins rapping in a Ford Trucks commercial. Posted: 2 years ago by suebe
Poor quality, but hey, it's from the 80s. It doesn't get much worse than this.
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Carjacking pooch out on bail Posted: 3 years ago by teaya21
Chevy is out on bail after jumping into a car in melbourne and refusing to leave.
Spokeswoman for Chevy stated he had no bones with the driver he just wanted a lift.
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Real Man Stakes Upped - Texan Takes 35 Years To Die Of A Bullet Wound Posted: 11 months ago by pocksucket
Craig Buford of Fort Worth was fatally shot in the back in 1973. Unfortunately that didn't fit his plans to do manly stuff like driving buses and trucks so he didn't give in and die until December of last year.
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McDonald's golden arches topple in Arizona high winds, crush Naperville couple Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
A giant set of golden arches outside a McDonald’s in eastern Arizona toppled in high winds Wednesday, crushing a Naperville couple’s Chevy Trailblazer as they sat inside the parked vehicle.
Comments: 8 Score: [-] 382 [+].
Molten Steel Man: Walking Beast Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
The Walking Beast is a mechanical creature that walks on 8 legs. The machine is powered by a 454 cubic inch chevy V-8 married to a modified TH400 trans coupled to two klune extreme under drive planetary gear boxes, uses a rockwell 2 1/2 ton military axle to supply power to the leg crank shafts.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 170 [+].
Top 10 Ugly Cars Posted: 2 years ago by sholom22
For some reason the Scion XL and the Chevy SSR didn't make the list.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 129 [+].
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