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The Airbox Of Lies. A Future Writer Story
10 horses more, promise It began as most projects do: with the triumph of Hope over Experience. I have a 2002 Camaro SS. One of the easier modifications is the installation of an aftermarket airbox lid...
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Night Flight Of The Silver Ghost. An On Request Future Writer Story
Some claimed yesterday that David Hester’s views of a government-issued Panther are more desired than his discussion of D.I.Y. engine mods. You ask for it, you get it today. How’s that for service?...
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Cop Reviews Cop Car: 2013 Ford Police Interceptor Sedan Taurus
The Queen is dead and police departments across the nation have spent the last year searching for a worthy replacement for the old girl. My department has been a Ford department for decades. So long,...
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For All the Trucks I’ve Loved Before
2001 Chevrolet Silverado LS with tasteful aftermarket NRA front license plate. Car enthusiasts can be a fickle and judgmental lot when it comes to passion for things automotive. Certain types of...
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Cop Drives Cop Car: 2012 Dodge Charger Pursuit
My takedown of the Ford Police Interceptor Sedan Taurus generated almost two hundred comments. Having recognized what the people want, I immediately began scheming for rides in the Ford’s two major...
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Guns and Ferraris: Joe Biden Would Pry Them Both From Your Cold Dead Hands
Yes, I know that’s not a real Ferrari. The guns aren’t firing real bullets either. So on Thursday, the crazy drunk uncle career politician who currently sits a mere heartbeat from the big desk in the...
View ArticleDriving Tip of the Day: Quit Being Nice
Click here to view the embedded video. Remember the great “Road Rage” epidemic of the late- nineties? Before the media and various bureaucratic institutions jumped on “distracted driving” as the...
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The Old Man and the Camaro: Part 1
Author’s note: In order to protect the identity of the victims in this case, some names and details have been omitted or changed. There are a million stories in the Naked City. This is one of them. It...
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The Old Man and the Camaro: Part 2
Author’s note- In order to protect the privacy of the victims, some names and details have been omitted or changed. Part One of this story can be found here. In police work it’s never a question of...
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Cop Drives Classic Cop Car: 1972 Ford Galaxie 500
As the nation’s peacekeepers are learning to live without the venerable Ford Crown Victoria it is also a time to reflect on what police cars were like in the time before the Panther platform debuted...
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Fear Of A Black Planet
Take a good look at the picture above. What do you see? If your answer is that you see three black Chevrolet Equinox “cute utes,” you’d be wrong. I took the picture at about four in the afternoon on a...
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Mad Men Season 6: For Immediate Release
I was a late comer to Mad Men, AMC’s highly successful and critically acclaimed drama that airs on Sunday nights. It was only as the fifth season was underway and I started to see reports on the...
View ArticleAudi Boldly Goes Where No Product Placement Has Gone Before
Click here to view the embedded video. Product placement in movies and television can be tricky. It gets hard for the viewer to suspend disbelief and get into a movie or television show when every...
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How Low Can You Go: NTSB Proposes Lowering BAC limit to 0.05
Aftermath of Carrollton, KY bus crash May 14, 1988. No one is in favor of drunk driving. Don’t do it. Now that I’ve completed the ritualistic incantation prior to writing a piece about drunk driving,...
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Cop Drives Classic Cop Car: 1991 Ford LTD Crown Victoria and 1996 Crown Victoria
Along with the faux cop car 1972 Ford Galaxie Custom 500 that I reviewed a few weeks back, my department has saved two other examples of police cars once used on patrol. I can personally vouch that...
View ArticleCop Won’t Drive Cop Car: Carbon Motors Declares Bankruptcy
Click here to view the embedded video. The video above is the closest we’ll ever have to enjoying a World’s Wildest Police Chases segment featuring the Carbon Motors E7. Somewhat lost in the breaking...
View ArticleCop Won’t Drive Cop Car Part 2: So, Hoosier Daddy, Carbon Motors?
Click here to view the embedded video. If the Carbon Motors business model was so bad, how did the company last as long as it did? To paraphrase an especially sharp-tongued commentor from one of the...
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Dude, Where’s My ObamaCar?
So, how would you all like a nice, juicy chunk of political red meat to chew on a lovely Tuesday morning? For those of you who aren’t interested, it’s all below the jump. For the rest of you, 350...
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I’m Here to Say, I Was Drivin’ that Model A: The 2013 Ford Model A Restorers’...
This year marks the 85th anniversary of the introduction of the Ford Model A. During the week of June 24th, over 800 of them descended on Lexington for the 2013 Model A Restorer’s Club (MARC) national...
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Some Kind of Skid Monster
The vehicle pictured above is called the “Skid Monster.” It’s late model Toyota Camry with casters attached to the rear that cause the car to handle the way you’d expect a Toyota Camry with casters...
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