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Holy crap. Thanks to reader and frequent commenter, Blix. She thought that this would go perfect with the whole, “how to be a fashionable car guy” — series (pt. 1; pt. 2). Only it really wasn’t a series. More I was bored and thought it would be funny to include fashion stuff on a car blog.
Anyways. These “tools” are made of Kraum stainless steel imported from Germany. It’s a 77 piece set of wrenches, pliers, etc. The handles are made of carved mahogany.
But the best part is what you carry the tools around in… an elephant leather case. Elephant. Leather. Yeah.
The set costs a cool five large and is available at G. Lorenzi and Bergdorf Goodman.
culture|garage will be approaching Lorenzi for sponsorship talks. It would only be fitting for us to wield tools of this caliber while kicking ass in a Saab 9000.
The biggest lacking thing on the Scion XB is its power and wrong wheel drive. For some odd reason, I kinda like the toaster shape of it.
The owner of this Hot Lava Orange XB is Rick who has managed to squeeze a stroked 350 Chevy V8 that outputs 450 hp. What’s amazing is that he managed to fit all this into the XB’s shoe-box sized engine bay. And why not convert this econo-box into a mad tight drifter? Well Rick did just that, converting the XB’s front-wheel drive to rear-wheel drive.
The project isn’t finished yet Rick says but so far so good I’d say.
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In Soviet Russia, wood…oh nevermind.
Vasily Lazarenko from Chernovtsy, Ukraine fashioned this car all on his own out of wood.
Unfortunately, the spring/wheel combo is just all wrong. And who knows how well it does in crash tests. Word is, Splinter from the ninja turtles has already spoken for this one. See, I can go on for hours, the jokes are endless.
The chassis and engine are from a 1981 Opel with a 100-horsepower engine, so this wooden creation is definitely all show and no go. Word has it the car is for sale for “as much as it cost to make,” which Lazarenko will not specify.
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designboom is running a contest called “Dining in 2015.” Designers are supposed to enter anything from cutlery to cookware. Exhaust Burger was submited by some designers from Iran. Skip to the jump to see the diagram of how it works. Essentially, you would plug this into your exhaust pipe, it routes the hot exhaust over the top of the cooking surface. Something about this just seems disgusting.
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They say imitation is the biggest form of flattery right? Recently we have seen a couple of car clones coming out of China and to name a couple: Toyota RAV-4, Scion XB, Smartcar, BMW X5, Honda CR-V.
The latest clone coming out of China is the Lifan 3-series, a 5-door MINI clone, similar in wheelbase to the MINI Clubman I suppose. The car will go on sale in China during the first half of the year.
Lifan decided to create a 5-door version of BMW Group’s MINI Cooper, and while its disproportionate to the original, a monkey could see its striking resemblance. Although I wish I could feel safe for the monkey during the crash testing of these Chinese clones.
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A couple of interesting things about this:
1. that dog looks like it has been “training” in the MLB
2. if you put wheels that ugly on an S2000, you kind of had it coming
I have no context to what exactly happened here, so feel free to speculate all you want!
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A Virginia lawmaker is going to introduce a bill that will make it harder to show everyone else just how bad ass your truck is. Yep, they might ban those swinging truck nuts.
What has this country come to when a man can’t even affix a pair of fake testicles to the back of his car or truck?
All sarcasm aside, I’m in support of this goofy and tacky trend to end. Sure, cars and trucks can stir passions with people much like another human can, but the personification of your Ram can end there in my eyes.
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There isn’t too much information of how this poor owner ended up in the swamp with his Velocity Yellow Corvette C6 Z06. But I’m pretty sure speeding was the biggest factor.
Not only is the thing flooded on the inside, please remind me to never call that tow guy for service, “Be sure to not scratch the car,” and “Easy with the lip bruda” made me chuckle.
So how long before it’ll show up on eBay?
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