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Daydreaming:
Fix Your Own Car. Save $$$
Feb-26-2009
...needed to get back to his dream. He went on to get a college degree in automotive technology. He's been working on cars and trucks ever since. And the 70 year old mechanic says...
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Daydreaming:
Grand Theft Oscar?
Feb-23-2009
...there would be a great crush after the show, when people wait for hours while valets try to find their cars, and then wait more hours trying to navigate through the traffic. So we busted...
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Daydreaming:
Killer Magician
Jan-13-2009
...Ford really want people to think its new cars are nothing but sleight-of-hand versions of the old ones? His answer -- PR-y, but true: "The whole world needs a magic trick right now."...
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E-Mercedes?
Jan-12-2009
...car would cost. But I imagine, much like the press party, this is one car I'm not getting into. When I get back to L.A., this is the only Mercedes that will have me. Photo by Gary Dauphin,...
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Nostalgia for 1988???
Dec-31-2008
...noted, you spend so much time in the car when you first get behind the wheel, that the songs on the radio from that era often become permanently imprinted on your brain. I have very...
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Planes, Trains and...Well, You Know
Dec-23-2008
...your favorite -- or least favorite -- family road trip. Find out the hard way that little Billy suffers from epic car sickness? Been trapped at Chicago O'Hare long enough to sample...
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The Many Moods of Rod Blagojevich
Dec-11-2008
...it just can't help but become the latest in that photographic genre: the-indicted-guy-just-trying-to-get-from-car-to-door. Perhaps it's photographer's long-lens, maybe it's the glance...
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What Car Show Goers REALLY Want to See
Nov-21-2008
...Hybrid, and in a cute little Nissan Cube. We saw a lot of other cars, of course. There were all-electric vehicles, clean diesels, cars that run on ethanol and natural gas and even...
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Long May You Run: Saving The Auto Companies
Nov-17-2008
...need and will buy clean and green cars to be part of World Change. Unique wheel covers will identify these cars on the road so that others can see the great example a new car owner is...
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My Six-Hour WaitTo Help Make 'History'
Nov-03-2008
...sticker, tired and soggy, but oddly elated: I'd voted! Out in the parking lot, I saw Joyce striding toward her car under still-glowering skies. "Congratulations, honey," she called,...
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My Six-Hour WaitTo Help Make 'History'
Nov-03-2008
...sticker, tired and soggy, but oddly elated: I'd voted! Out in the parking lot, I saw Joyce striding toward her car under still-glowering skies. "Congratulations, honey," she called,...
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Daydreaming:
Paying For Books With 'Guns' And Fire
Oct-02-2008
...these neighborhoods were scary, a man parked in front of me walked to the back of his car, opened his trunk and pulled out a machine gun. I was in neutral, waiting for one of my kids...
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Banker?
Sep-18-2008
...in the eyes and talked with them about my transactions. Bigger isn't always better. As gas prices soar, more Americans think about buying smaller cars. As Starbucks pop up on every...
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Daydreaming:
Don't Try To One-Up A Mercedes In Africa
Aug-26-2008
...car. Five years ago, on assignment for Radio Expeditions, I followed the route of the old camel caravans from Timbuktu, 500 miles north to an ancient salt mine called Taudenni in the...
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DOCP: Driving On Cell Phone
Aug-20-2008
...DOCP: Driving On Cell Phone. Breakin' the law... of hands-free calling. . Getty Images --Steve Proffitt Last month, California joined the handful of states (Connecticut, DC, New...
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Coming Soon: Scrambled Pedestrian
Aug-06-2008
...the fact that jaywalking is strictly enforced in Los Angeles, but part of it also has to do with the fact that we're just trained that way. Perhaps it has something to do with our car...
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Auto Erotic
Aug-04-2008
...Auto Erotic. Americans love their cars, sometimes literally. . --Gary Dauphin Newton's Third Law of Motion states that "For every action, there is an equal and opposite re-action,"...
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Irrational at the Pump?
Jul-31-2008
...seem to agree on a few reasons why we feel so much more pain at putting four dollar gas in our cars than we do, say, buying a four dollar latte. Here's a video of one of them. Dan...
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Daydreaming:
Not Just a Fan
Jul-31-2008
...this snazzy, super-70s clip from Canada's national public broadcaster, the CBC, Jack was touting futuristic hydrogen-powered cars decades before the Governator retrofitted his Hummers....
