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12 Bonehead Basics of Car Maintenance
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You know, That Guy who thinks that the best way to keep a car from overheating is to roll down the window. That Guy who hires the neighborhood kid to wash his car 'cause he’s allergic to “going outside and doing things.” There are lots of ways to be That Guy, but only one way not

to be: by regaining your self-sufficiency and learning the basics about car care. Using STP® is a good first step. And while we can’t do the rest for you, we'll give you a few pointers. Check out the tutorials. Take a look at the videos. And get under your hood. Good luck, and Don't Be That Guy.

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    Green Hornet & Black Beauty

    Posted in: Car Culture
    Shaq Diesel
    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, Black Beauty moves like a runaway 18-wheeler and is equipped with the tools for all the damage a crime-fighter must do when capturing the bad guys.

    Black Beauty is boasting:

    * Twin Gatling guns flanking both sides of the hood

    * Rocket launchers on the front and back

    * Green headlights

    * Torpedo-shaped running lights

    * Tinted black windows

    * No door handles

    * A hornet logo on the wheel caps and front grille

    * Tire shredders that pop out of the wheels

    The Green Hornet — which follows the crime-fighting duo of newspaper publisher Britt Reid and his martial-arts-master sidekick Kato — has old-school superhero bona fides. Amazingly, this is the first movie version, even though it originated as a radio show way back in 1936. It also was a comic book in 1940 and had a short-lived TV run from 1966-67, co-starring martial-arts legend Bruce Lee as “Kato.” (How cool would that have been if the show had lasted?)

    But the show’s most enduring hero is Black Beauty, which I would take any day over its automobile rivals — the Batmobile, Knight Rider’s Kitt, or The Dukes of Hazzard’s General Lee.

    How badass is the custom-made Black Beauty? Its mounted twin Gatling guns are actually a step down in firepower — another version of the car once featured a mounted cannon on the hood. Technically, that’s not street legal, and in the wrong hands, things could turn ugly. But in the comic-book fiction of The Green Hornet, it’s a beauty — Black Beauty, to be exact.

    That’s it for now, chief. See you on the road.

    —CD, STP® Blogger

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