Category Archives: cars

Faster Than A Ferrari

April 11, 2012 – 7:29 pm

Several years ago I challenged a friend to a race across Manhattan. I was on my bicyle. He was driving a Ferrari. The bet was $100. We left the restaurant at the same time. He showed up at the bar twenty minutes after me. Then again I cheated. I ran the red lights. He tried […]

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Only On Sundays

April 3, 2012 – 3:22 pm

Jan and Dean scored a big AM hit in 1964 with THE LITTLE OLD LADY FROM PASADENA. The song was based on the myth of Pasadena car salesmen pitching an old clunker as driven by an elderly widow only to go to church. The legend was based on truth, since in the 60s the LA […]

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Bonneville Speed Flats – Craig Breedlove / Spirit of America 1963

April 3, 2012 – 1:25 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZO12xkvU2M&feature=related 407.45 mph Land Speed Record August 5, 1963 I was eight years old.

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Angry Broad

February 28, 2012 – 11:35 am

I’m really glad I don’t have a car.

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LITTLE GTO / NEW YORK BLONDES

February 17, 2012 – 4:34 pm
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