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This film, posted to Youtube by the Ford Heritage Museum, details a rare trip with rare meat from London to Paris by truck. The goal was to pimp the Thames Trader complete the delivery of seven tons of beef in less than 24 hours.
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Photographer Martin Usborne created this series of images, called “MUTE: the silence of dogs in cars”. Eventually, he plans to release this series as an art book. There are some great vehicles in the series, and some great looking dogs as well.
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Everyone calls it “The bend”. You can think of it as Burning Man for Gearheads. What is it? It’s a place where a portion of the throng of attendees camp during Speed Week. The Bonneville Salt Flats are situated just a few miles from Wendover, Nevada but the hotels in town can’t hold all of the people that show up for this event.
The solution? Camp along the road that leads out to the salt.
This an ad for Google Fiber, which is, apparently, a whole new set of tubes for the interwebs. The difference is that these tubes deliver your data 100 times faster than the old tubes. Vevo, here I come! Click through for the video.
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Speed week is about half over for 2012. With the end of the weekend, most of the onlookers have gone home and the serious racers linger on the salt. It remains to be seen which records will stand and which will fall. What we do know is that it was a beautiful weekend on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Click past the break for some photographic highlights from Bonneville Speed Week.
If you are in to customizing Russian cars (and let’s face it, who isn’t?), then Lada Selecta is the site for you. Choose a body style and go hog wild. Paint colors, ride height, rims and tires, and roof racks are just a few of the options you can choose.
Click past the break to get your Soviet auto fix.
Take several different Chrysler ads from 1987 and mash them up into a 3 minute video and what do you get? You get a humorous glimpse at the sorry state of Chrysler at the time. Landau roofs, integrated coach lights, pillow-style seats, and wood-tone instrument panels made Chrysler’s drive to be the best a fruitless one.
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Those wry Brits have an adorable ingenious method for retrieving the discus and the javelins thrown at this year’s summer games. A remote controlled Mini Cooper. The judges drop the hardware in the car’s sunroof and some lucky schmo drives it back to the throwing area. Brilliant!
Hit the jump for the cuteness in video form.
The previous installments of Name That Car proved to be quite easy. Perhaps this one will keep you busy for a little longer…
The winner gets our valuable prize: Respect from NTC. Who’ll be the lucky contestant? Hit the jump to make your guess in the comment section and win!
[image source: justacarguy.com]
The film, “Boys of Bonneville” has been discussed here before, but not nearly to the extent that Jesse of www.justacarguy.com has done. His review caught my eye when I noticed a couple of my photos in his post.
It’s a great review of the film and discussion of Ab Jenkins and the Meteors. Nice work, Jesse, and thanks for the shout-out to this site!
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