Stop Driving Us Crazy

A race of intelligent Christian Martian cars come to Earth to teach us driver safety-- Nah, nothing weird here!

Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 30, 2009 - Comments (1)
Category: Aliens, Motor Vehicles, PSA’s, 1950s

Follies of the Mad Men #81

Was there ever really a time and a land filled with singing pump jockeys and winking signage?

Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 28, 2009 - Comments (1)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Motor Vehicles, 1950s

The Season for Drunken Elves

Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 21, 2009 - Comments (2)
Category: Costumes and Masks, Holidays, Motor Vehicles, Alcohol

Live Like a Tsar

The same armored car company that built cars for Tsar Nicholas, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky are now offering the Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition armored car with whale penis leather seats. This SUV also comes with gold plated bulletproof windows, a tungsten exhaust, diamond and ruby encrusted gauges, a external Kevlar coating and three bottles of the most expensive vodka made (RussoBaltique). The asking price for this dorky SUV comes in at a whopping 1.6 million dollars. It's set to be showcased at next years Top Marques show in Monaco.
Sydney Morning Herald/Dartz

Posted By: mdb777 - Sat Oct 24, 2009 - Comments (3)
Category: Motor Vehicles, Overpriced Merchandise, Foreign Customs

Motorhome Demo derby

Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 30, 2009 - Comments (3)
Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Destruction, Motor Vehicles

Vorsprung Durch Technik?

An accident on Germany's A2 autobahn involving 259 cars has left 66 people injured, 10 of them seriously, but incredibly resulted in no deaths.

The pile-up occurred in the late evening, when a combination of heavy rain and a setting sun hampered the drivers' vision and made the road conditions slippery. The first accident happened near Hamelerwald, and began a cascade of other accidents that over the next two hours grew to span a 30 kilometre stretch of road. It finally took 340 emergency workers well into the next morning to finish dealing with the people and vehicles involved and the clean-up cost is expected to exceed 1.75 million Euros, i.e. $2.5 million (NY Daily News).

Posted By: Dumbfounded - Sat Jul 25, 2009 - Comments (7)
Category: Accidents, Destruction, Disasters, Motor Vehicles, Cars

Pimp My Garage?

You may not be able to afford that "West Coast Customs" look for your ride, but how about the garage where you leave it?

Style-Your-Garage.com are offering a range of self adhesive garage-door covers that depict the contents of your garage as everything from a fighter jet to a strip joint. There's even one showing it to be completely empty. So if you fancy having an alligator, a speedboat or even a metro station in your garage, Style-Your-Garage.com have just the thing for you (Daily Mail).

Posted By: Dumbfounded - Thu Jul 23, 2009 - Comments (9)
Category: Art, Surrealism, Design and Designers, Graphics, Motor Vehicles, Cars

When You Are A Pedestrian

Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 23, 2009 - Comments (1)
Category: Death, Motor Vehicles, Documentaries, 1940s

Transformers Are Real! ... Well, Sort Of

A few years ago, a neighbor of my parents, a man who owned a construction company, parked a backhoe in his driveway. The surrounding neighbors nearly had a riot over how the machine was lowering the value of their property just by being there. So you can imagine how this guy's neighbors might feel. Carlos Owens of Wasilla, Alaska, a former Army mechanic, had a dream. His dream was to create a giant metal robot that could mirror the movements of its human pilot. Now the "mecha", as he calls it, has become a reality. It has taken him four years and cost approximately $25,000, but just think of all the fun you could have with one of these.

Posted By: Nethie - Mon Jun 08, 2009 - Comments (6)
Category: Inventions, Motor Vehicles, Puppets and Automatons, Robots

Trunk Monkey

Perhaps not quite so funny since several deadly chimp attacks. Visit here for the history of this campaign.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 01, 2009 - Comments (9)
Category: Animals, Motor Vehicles, Advertising