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Messenger Puppet (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
It’s the ubiquitous GM A-body from the mid-70s. WooHoo!. Not only is this every Oldsmobile Cutlass, Pontiac LeMans, Buick Regal and Century you’ve ever seen, it is, down at your neighborhood Chevy Dealer, the Malibu, the El Camino, the Laguna and the Monte Carlo (yeah, not Cali, but the same climate). Why love it, besides being [...]
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
A nationwide study examining police ticket data across the United States has revealed one very important list — which cars don't get tickets. We've broken down the list below. Quality Planning — a company that validates policyholder info for auto insurers put together this list based on data gathered between August 2007 and September 2008, using a sample size of 1.7 million vehicles. Click...
Madison County Record (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
A man has filed suit against the driver who he says struck him head on. Dennis K. Rheinecker claims he was driving his 1998 Chevrolet 1500 south on South Main near its intersection with Industrial Drive in Dupo on No. 9, 2007, at about 5:49 p.m. when the incident occurred. At the same time, Earl B. Taylor was driving a 2000 Oldsmobile Intrigue north on South Main near the same intersection when he...
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Filed under: Aftermarket , Classics , Coupe , Auctions , Luxury George Barris's 1967 Oldsmobile Toronado 70-X - clic above for high-res image gallery If you've never seen Vincent Gallo's Buffalo 66 , stop reading and watch it. Why? Because otherwise the next part of this post isn't going to make any sense to you. Anyhow, remember the scene when his Billy Brown character kidnaps/carjacks Christina...
EveryBlock: Ward 6 (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
75th and State Man dies in South Side crash The driver, whose identity was not being released pending notification of his family, was driving an Oldsmobile Alero that was hit near 75th and State streets about 5:10 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. Published by Tribune Breaking News on November 15, 2009 .
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
A man died late this afternoon after the car he was driving was broadsided by another car in a South Side traffic accident, authorities said. The driver, whose identity was not being released pending notification of his family, was driving an Oldsmobile Alero that was hit near 75th and State streets about 5:10 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. The Cook County medical examiner's...
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Mid Engine 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon 442 http://www.hotrodharrys.com/cars/showarticle.php?articleID=4
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
When gas prices increase for a prolonged period of time, car makers respond with more fuel-efficient products. Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe has just such a Caddy from the ‘70s. And it comes with a can full of marbles. The Eldorado had been a halo product for Cadillac, and a premier personal coupe for decades. The 1979 model year saw a number of changes for the Eldo, among which was a switch...
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
truculent \TRUCK-yuh-luhnt\ , adjective; Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous. Cruel; destructive; ruthless. Origin: Truculent derives from Latin truculentus, from trux, truc-, rough, savage, fierce. jfgi Just Fucking Google it. You say it when somebody asks a stupid question. Dude #1: hey dude, what does JFGI mean? Dude #2: Just Fucking Google it yo. Dude #1: I tried but i couldn't find anything....
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Filed under: Coupe , Auctions , Buick Northstar-powered 1998 Buick Riviera prototype - Click above for high-res image gallery As we approach the big SEMA show in Las Vegas next week, it's time to look back at a previous star of the show. Sometime back in the mid-80s the decision was made that Buick would abandon V8 engines and instead be the home of the V6. Even for top models like Riviera and Park...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Rolling like a big shot in a tuned up Chevy must be harder than Dorrough makes it look, because he's actually driving an Oldsmobile Cutlass in the video for " Ice Cream Paint Job ."
Texting Sucks (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
On a Sunday afternoon a few weeks ago, my husband, two small children and I were headed south on Interstate 29. As we approached the 26th Street exit, a white Oldsmobile Bravada traveling in the right lane suddenly swerved to the left, narrowly …
The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
I saw the strangest thing yesterday. Driving down a country highway there appeared to be a tattered old Toyota pickup and a 1990’s Chrysler LHS spread amongst five foot tall weeds. Further peering in resulted in an Escort Wagon, 3 Oldsmobile Cutlass Convertibles and 2 Sebrings. I wondered… had Monsanto finally invented some special car [...]
Baristanet (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Police arrested a 28-year-old man on drug charges after finding $1,500 in crack cocaine in his 1988 Oldsmobile Intrigue, said Montclair Deputy Chief Todd Conforti. Anthony Clark, of Orange, was pulled over by police, after search warrants were issued as a result of an ongoing narcotics investigation, on High Street in Montclair, near the West Orange border, on Tuesday night around 10 p.m. Upon approaching...
Straightline (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
If you lived in the New York area in the 1960s and street-raced your muscle car , the Connecting Highway was the place to go. It's just a short stretch of roadway that connects the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, NY, but all the big-money drag races were here. The Connecting Highway gained more notoriety when Joe Oldham dared to write about the motorsport that most...
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