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Mar18
Letting Wednesday’s blog be the preamble, let’s get right into it — starting with the greatest decade ever for cinematic car chases.
1970s
This. Was. The. DECADE. For movie car chases! The hard part is choosing the best from the best decade. They were all some of the greatest car chase movies of all time. Think Vanishing Point, Smokey and the Bandit, McQ, White Lightning, The Driver, and Mad Max. The French Connection contained what many consider to be the greatest single car chase scene of all time. But…
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Mar16
Car chases, chief! No one ever says the car chase was better in the book. And they’re usually pretty lame when they happen in real life, too. Nope, car chases are for the movies. In fact, one of the very first movies with a narrative centered around “the chase.”
1903: The Great Train Robbery
Why do you think it’s such a tradition for directors to yell “ACTION!” when they start filming? Well, it could have something…
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Mar11
Behold the noble TrabantMy first car was a Nissan Sunny California, a station wagon designed and conceived by people who thought only in straight lines and sharp angles. It was ugly, it was temperamental, and the accelerator pedal appeared to be coupled to the engine by way of wishful thinking, or perhaps a particularly unmotivated receptionist prone to dropping calls. Put under any strain at all — which was not often; the car would…
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Mar09
Women and cars, chief: the two greatest topics known to man. And today this blog is dedicated to both. You’re welcome.
International Women’s Day was yesterday, which strikes me as odd seeing as how women make up more than half the population and get only one lousy day. You’d think they’d get just over half the year — like spring, summer, and one week of fall. I know my lady takes up more than half our bedroom with all her stuff. But that’s neither here nor there.
Decades before…
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Mar02
“Uh-oh. Did you forget to fill up the tank?”So, it’s 2011. And the question on everybody’s mind is, “Shouldn’t we all have a flying car by now?” What’s taking so long? Back to the Future Part II showed a sky full of flying cars in the year 2015. So what’s the friggin’ hold up?
While a version of the flying car has already been invented…
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Feb25
As cool as cars and trucks are, sometimes you gotta branch out. Experiment. Let’s get to know some other 4-wheeled vehicles that remind us transportation comes in all shapes and sizes. Street legal these things are not!
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Feb16
License to IllThere are a lot of ways in which people personalize their cars. Spoilers, bumper stickers (which we’ve written about here) and vanity plates. Ahhh, vanity plates. The Lady Gaga of car accessories. Often outrageous, often provocative, often over the top. Indulgent and, occasionally, pretty effing funny.
Like legally changing your name,…
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Feb11
Road Trip!Winter is getting old, and I’m already fantasizing about what I’m gonna do once it gets a little warmer. Two words, chief: road trip.
Without much preamble, here are the five reasons road trips rule:
LEAVING TOWN: It doesn’t matter where you’re leaving if you’ve decided to go on a road trip — it’s time to leave town. And the road trip hasn’t officially begun until you cross the bridge, or if you don’t have a bridge, until you pass that sign that says,…
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Jan18
That’s a dirty noodle.Hola, chief. Here at STP, we believe in fixing stuff yourself (as opposed to paying a guy down at the Qwik-E-Loob) and getting your hands dirty while you’re doing it. There’s just something about a greasy layer of dirt, sweat, and grime on your skin that makes you feel like a man. So if you’re not working on your car, we’d like to suggest the following ways to get your mitts grubby and your man-stink on.
Catfish Noodling.
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Dec14
Replica of Kyle Petty’s ‘82 Buick Regal.Hola, chief. We recently met a fella named Jim Boyle through our STP Facebook page, and we think he’s all kinds of cool. You see the photo of that car, the one on your left? That’s a detailed replica of the 1982 Buick Regal that Kyle Petty drove back in the ’81-’82 NASCAR seasons. And our friend Jim Boyle restored it from the ground up with his own hands. Here at STP, it’s…
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Dec10
Move over, Bruce.When the much-anticipated The Green Hornet opens in theaters nationwide next month, its biggest stars, Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz, might take a backseat to a bold, camera-friendly newcomer: Black Beauty, the movie’s dark, cool crime-fighting car.
From a distance, the ebony 1966 Chrysler Imperial might look like a staid funeral-home hearse. But if the movie trailers are any indication,…
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Nov22
Trust us, this is not a Ford Pinto.My editor (like most of his species) heads south for the winter, and I awoke this morning to find a telegram cabled directly from his fortified beach house: “URBAN LEGENDS STOP 500 WORDS STOP ASAP.”
What’s an urban legend? Urban legends are the modern myths we pass around through word of mouth — stories that illustrate a point, speak to our safety, or clue us in to something interesting. Interesting and, generally, not true. Consider the Chevy Nova,…
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