Lol.

Ferraris catch fire.

Behold the Majesty, Pt. II

Behold the Majesty

My love for the Alfa Romeo 164is no secret. So on this lovely Friday, I present to you an F1 car thinly disguised as one. Gotta get down.

Here to counter lowered cars everywhere.

Today, in Hellaflush

This style has captivated me recently.

Stance van!

It's impossible to not like this.

Oh hell yes.

Alfa Romeo Montreal. Doing a burnout.

Built to match.

Rat rod CRX...

Plus a matching rat rod trailer...

is almost as awesome as the Dual-orean.

Glamour shots!

The Wal-Mart version of the 4runner

Welcome to a new recurring segement, called Wal-Mart Cars. In this segement, we identify a crude Chinese copy of another car. I'll start on a personal note.

The Great Wall Safe: a Chinese-built SUV made from the tooling of the 2nd gen 4runner. If you look close, you can see the identical tailight housings and window frames.

What is this, I don't even...

You know; the more I look at this hellaflush'd Toyota Highlander Hybrid (yes, it's a hybrid too), the more I start thinking "You know.... I don't hate it."

They all do that.

This is my girlfriend's Scion tC. This piece of trim fell off over a year ago, and stays put thanks to a liberal application of duct tape. I've seen countless tC's with this defect, and while I'm a huge Toyota fan, this really is a testament to how their quality has gone down in recent years.

I saw this at Chipotle

And I love it so.

I think front clip swaps are super awesome, and I am now going to google them for, like, an hour.

It looks good the other way, too.

The Alfa Romeo 164S

I've successfully deluded myself into thinking that this could be a reasonable daily driver for me. Even if I decide to buy something "sensible" next time I go car shopping, mark my words, I will one day own the last Alfa sedan sold here. It's too awesome for me to not want.

If I was 30 years older...

This 1967 Ford Country Squire would have been my family car. I'm having a hard time deciding if I'd rather have this or an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser.

The Lego Rubicon

I made this today. I made sure the truck's wheelbase, width, and body height were all relatively proportional to the outside diameter of the tires. The truck has the lego equivalent of solid axles front and rear; and I also included a small bumper, a tow hitch, and shifters for both the transmission and the transfer case.

The mock trail is pretty short, and includes a jagged staircase, if you will, at one end, and then a pretty smooth descent at the other end, with two staggered ramps in between them to provide suspension flex.

This is what I do when I'm bored.

Down on the Junkyard, Volume I

Welcome to the start of another running series that will occur every few months; which I shall call "Down on the Junkyard" because that's what it used to be called on Jalopnik, and I liked it. My junkyard of choice is the Ecology Pick-a-Part in Oceanside, California. Truth be told, the majority of the cars there were shitty old Big 3 sedans, but there were still some interesting sights.

I honestly had no idea what this was. It looked really neat though.