headline of the day
Nissan to moisturize occupants with breathable vitamin C in new autos?
what I wanted
Dear Clusterflock,
Tomorrow I am going to inquire about getting a loan for a used car. I haven’t had a car in almost two years. I’ve been saved by the grace of my girlfriend, who has been kind enough to drive me to and from work, since this city isn’t all too friendly to those without their own transportation.
So, what was your first car, and/or what is the longest amount of time you’ve gone without having a car?
– Robert Ledgerwood
1939/47 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Vutotal Cabriolet
The 1939/47 Rolls-Royce Phantom III “Vutotal” Cabriolet by Labourdette, now in the John Rich Museum collection, started off as a standard Phantom III designed by Henry Royce.
And now, for the rest of the story.
from the comments
There is a wind-storm and I am probably sixteen or seventeen, driving along a single-lane country road in my Ford F150 truck. It’s been windy for a few days, by now, and this road is elevated slightly, with a drainage ditch on either side, but no brush. Farmland. A single row of telephone poles are on the left side of the road, and I am probably driving too fast — the wind is pushing against the truck, which somehow makes me feel not only invincible but impossibly cool. Even though I know the road is deserted, I look behind me in the driver’s side mirror and think “That is so odd, the poles are sideways.” I realize that they are falling and I look up and see them begin to fall in front of me and one is about to hit my car. I turn the wheel sharply and start driving over the tilled soil. For some reason it doesn’t occur to me to slow down. I drive to the edge of the field, and get back on the road. Other cars are here now and they’ve stopped. The road is completely blocked, back for a ways since as one pole started to fall it brought all the others with it.
Volkswagen Fox Inside Out
Brazilian ad agency AlmapBBDO turned the Volkswagen Fox inside out.
headline of the day
Giant sinkhole swallows Escalade in Wisconsin
True Blood Trivia
A little True Blood trivia: I’ve been trying to figure out what kind of car Eric gave Lafayette, and I think this is it:
It’s a Zagato Perana Z-One, and
will be priced “under $100,000″ and can be ordered with either the 436-horsepower E-rod LS3 or the 505-horsepower LS7 from the Z06.
For anyone who would like one for himself.
Update: Amanda alerted me to this car. I think she’s right.
SuperSonic Car
The Bloodhound has a grand total of 135,000 horsepower, which is equal to 180 times the power of a formula one car.
from the comments
Cindy and I know about sandstorms too. They are always scary in unexpected ways. Get a big one and sand will get in your mouth even if you’re locked in a bank vault. Get a big one and static electricity courses through it, and everybodys’ hair stands straight out. I saw a car once that was bright silver when it had been green the same morning: sand had stripped the paint when the driver drove straight into the arriving cloud at high speed. And the windshield looked like an old person with cataracts.
Garage, Church and a Dodge. SH19, Alex, OK 73002
Mega Fiat IV
I’ve been meaning to get photos of some small cars here for Deron but keep forgetting, until i saw this one hooked up to an IV with a megaphone on the roof.
There was no around to ask about the meaning of it even if I did speak Italian. Oh, and contrary to popular belief, FIAT doesn’t mean “Fix It Again Tony” but is “a command or act of will that creates something without or as if without further effort.”
Superclogger
Having passed by the 405 on the way to Newport Beach today, I was reminded how doable this is (via):
Joel Kyack’s (MFA ’08) first large-scale public project, Superclogger, will present various puppet shows to L.A. drivers caught in afternoon traffic jams from a mobile theater housed in the back of a nondescript white pickup truck. Broadcasting soundtracks discretely to the viewer’s car stereo, Superclogger, curated by Cesar Garcia (MPAS ’09), aims to briefly halt the progression of chaos by temporarily drawing the audience out of the commute experience and placing them within an intimate space of engagement and performance that highlights their own individual presence within the broader structure of the traffic jam.
I wish there was a word for that
A Gaithersburg man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for a drunken-driving crash that injured a former judge, who had spared him jail time years before.
Hey Aaron
Will you post your stereo salesman / FBI agent-esque driver’s license photo?
At Cindy’s Request
Further evidence of the death of irony in America. Yes–just pull up, shove your hose in, and you are ready to Go!
Daddy’s got a new baby
Not everything ridiculous happens in Texas
A naked man “yelling that he was Jesus” was the cause of a five-car pileup on I-95 when a driver decided to get a better look. . . . The naked man had jumped into a car when police arrived, but they tracked him down nearby. Don’t they know that nobody f*&%s with the Jesus?
—Naked Man Thinks He’s Jesus, Causes Five Car Crash by Jaya Saxena, Gothamist.com, June 6, 2010
South On Texas SH146, Near Rye, TX 77369
This comes from close by, same day!
Driver Takes Off Before Reaching Airport
According to the police report, Villasana claimed to have had only one vodka cocktail, the night before.
She repeatedly tried to get back into her burning vehicle, despite police efforts to keep her away.
See the article here, and be sure to look at the link for the video. I think she has a future as a stunt woman for Bruce Willis. This one looks like Willis’s helicopter kill in Live Free or Die Hard.
Humans: Sick Motherfuckers.
I’ve not posted here before, but in light of Daryl’s comment over on the bird mating dance post, I felt y’all probably ought to see this. The whole thing (all six parts) are really worth watching.
I will warn y’all: This is not for the faint of heart. It just keeps on getting weirder.
It’s also NSFW, depending on your workplace of course.
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Deron’s prediction came true.
Maybe someone’s already noticed this, but all the way back in November of 2005, Deron predicted that, “Within the next eight years we will see the first asymmetrical cars.”
Have you seen these?
Was he right, or was he right?
In their next lives
they will all drive Rolls.
Bentley dealership
I’m in London.
not as mini as they used to be
