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Car Decorations and Accesories in Japan
Danny Choo is a guestblogger on Boing Boing. Danny resides in Tokyo, and blogs about life in Japan and Japanese subculture - he also works part time for the empire. The word Itasha describes a car that...
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Toy truck craps out domino runs
Brando's Auto Domino Building Truck is a battery-powered toy truck that shits bricks -- that is, it poops out dominos standing on end at the correct intervals to make a domino run. Or so the...
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Paul Pope illustrates Japan's grooviest concept cars
John sez, "Batman: Year 100 creator Paul Pope illustrated three Japanese concept cars for GQ, as well as a flying car of his own design. You can see all the illustrations at the GQ link." It Will Come...
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Transformers-themed customized car in Guatemala
Michael Bay himself would have been proud of this customized boy racer I spotted last night, here in Guatemala. I counted a dozen Transformers logos pasted all over this cheesy masterpiece! The piece...
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RIP, Hummer
Having failed to sell the Hummer brand off to a Chinese car manufacturer, GM is shutting it down. This car was like the high-fructose corn syrup of automobiles, something that concentrated everything...
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Steampunk hotrod: Ratrod!
Steampunk Workshop features the stellar Steam Trunk Industries Ratrod: a Big-Daddy-Roth-looking hotrod with steampunk accents and enormous character. Steam Trunk Industries Ratrod! (Thanks, Jake!)...
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Handmade machined aluminum speedster
Dan Bishop from Karas Kustoms makes and sells these beautiful machined aluminum speedsters for $65: "It measures approx. 6″ x 4″. The wheels are mounted on bearings and actually roll. Each car is...
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Vintage Rootes automotive ads in Russian and English
LiveJournal Vintage Ads group member valaamov_osel scanned this 1961 Rootes automotive booklet that is inexplicably in both some Cyrillic language (I'm assuming Russian) and English. It's dozens of...
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Freaky 1970 bubblecar concept vehicle, then and now
Dinosaurs and Robots brings us a look at Luigi Colani's 1970 LeMans Concept Car, "a hand-sculpted, biomorphic, plexiglass-domed, pivoting cockpit pod onto the business end of a Lamborghini Miura,"...
View ArticleNASCAR prayer (video)
[Video Link] A pre-race prayer at the NASCAR Nationwide series race in Nashville Tennessee, on July 23, 2011. "We want to thank you, Lord, for these mighty machines.... Lord I want to thank you for my...
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Extreme DIY car mods: Volvo with a wood-burning stove for heat
Wood burns in a stove as Pascal Prokop drives his totally baller 1990 Volvo 240 station wagon during cold winter weather on a road near the town of Mettmenstetten, some 25 kilometres south of Zurich,...
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The world's smallest model car
This electron microscope photograph, published by the Vienna University of Technology, shows a nano-scale model of a Formula One racing car, created using a 3D printing technique being developed...
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Crashed car sculpted from painted people
Look closely. Those are seventeen people that artist Emma Hack painted and contorted into the shape of a smashed car. See how she did it below. (thanks, Sean Ness!) (more…)
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Batmobile sold for $4.6 million
The original Batmobile driven on the 1960s TV series sold for auction on Saturday for $4.6 million. The seller was legendary kustom car king George Barris who had transformed the 1955 Lincoln Futura...
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Your car is not a tornado shelter
Last Friday, a tornado near El Reno, Oklahoma killed scientist Tim Samaras, as well as his son and a colleague. The three were tracking the storm in a vehicle — storm chasing, if you will — as part of...
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Optical illusions: auto detailing reflections
Auto detailing can be an art form in the right hands, as air2thethrown shows in this beautiful photo of a field reflected in a car's surface. The regulars at Detailing Bliss would say shooting at such...
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Watch how responsive laser car headlights can change night driving
Of all the CES videos this year, the most surprisingly interesting one demonstrated responsive laser auto headlights. In the concept demo, sensors gauge driving conditions and objects as they come...
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Brand new van wrapped to look like an old rustbucket
A customer commissioned Glasgow, Scotland vehicle graphics company Clyde Wraps to make a 2014 Volkswagen van look like it had been devoured by rust. The vehicle is actually covered in beautifully...
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Crow enjoys riding windshield wipers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQXaIIVcmq8 Hanging on to that wiper must be murder.
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