By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

I see in TA’s post on movie and TV cars that nobody’s yet mentioned the Bugaloo dune buggy, based on a Barris-designed 1971 Asve. Sandy Johnston’s Bugaloo fan site has more on the buggy used in the show, which now appears to be in Europe somewhere, but apparently, Barris built others, not for the show, including this one that appeared recently on Hemmings.com and in the listings for Mecum’s upcoming Kissimmee, Florida, auction. From the description:

This 1971 ASVE Barris Phase 4 Fun Buggy was custom built by Hollywood’s “King of the Kustomizers”, George Barris. This charming piece features a high performance 1776 CC engine, roof-mounted surf boards, a deck-mounted travel trunk and colorful Barris graphics. An identical Phase 4 Buggy was used as the basis for as the “Bugaloo’s Buggy” from the 1970’s kid TV show, “The Bugaloos”

See more pics at Hemmings

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

Here’s a quick video clip of Chris Rado’s groundbreaking 6.87 @ 197 MPH quarter mile pass last month in Pomona.

Wow.

By Mike Garrett

By Mike Musto

RideLust.com

As a car person, you must realize how important the holidays are for us, as it’s the one time of year that we can get what we want (if you follow the rules) and not feel guilty about it. For example, you as the gift giver may think that the $100 gift card to the local mall is wonderful. You’re thinking, “This is a perfect gift, my special someone can go out and get some socks, a shirt and maybe some pants.” Well… you’d be wrong. This is in fact a terrible gift and one that will ruin our entire holiday.

To buy for a car person, you need to think like a car person and look at what they do. For example, if your car person is constantly changing their oil and transmission fluid, putting in windshield wiper fluid, or washing their cars in the driveway, then a gift card from places like AutoZone, Pep Boys, NAPA or Advanced Auto Parts may be for them. Here they can buy oil and filters, transmission fluid, quick fix it parts like brake pads, wiper blades and air filters. Any car guy can use stuff from these places and will appreciate not having to pay for these wear items.

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By Rob Krider

Racerboy

Most of us car guys don’t have the enormous budget it takes to run a serious race team. Heck, I don’t have enough cash to fuel the towing rig Penske uses. However, most of us do have enough spare change lying around to run an un-serious race team. Que up the ChumpCar World Series. At ChumpCar you can race on the same racetrack (Infineon Raceway) as Jimmie Johnson and Danica Patrick (No, trust me, she won’t be there in a Cobra or a bikini). All you need to do is get together with a few of your Car Domain friends, piece together a $500 beater and head to the track. This is claimer road racing at its finest.

The next event is January 9-10, 2010, at Infineon Raceway, with a full schedule for the entire year all over the country. The deadline for signing up for the upcoming race has already passed, but everyone knows that deadlines are meant to be broken (the promoters will squeeze you in). To see the full schedule, prices and rules check out their website: ChumpCar World Series.

By Craig Pike

Craig Pike

I met pinstriper and all around cool cat Charlie Decker online, probably at Myspace, before I met him in person at the Grand National Roadster Show. I hit him up for some samples of his pinstriping and a quick bio so you’d know his style a little more. For you west-side cruisers, you better make an appointment! Charlie lives in Connecticut, so if you see him, grab him and his striping kit to lay down some crazy flowing lines.

I’ve included some of my favorite pinstriping from the “One Arm Bandit” as he’s known. These animal creations and artistic forms he’s blended with sweeping stripes blow me away. I’m not sure I could draw that in a hundred tries and he throws it down freehand in paint right from his mind to the brush. I don’t know if we’ll see this kind of work on hot rods, but if that’s what you want…

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By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

I’ve never been to the LA Auto Show, and I’m pretty pumped. Total bonus? Since it’s being held at the Convention Center—just a few blocks from the office—I don’t have to get on a airplane, and more importantly, I don’t have to face my inevitable, deeply ingrained fear that I’ve left some essential piece of equipment or its power cord sitting 1000 miles away on my desk. Obviously, there’s going to be plenty of totally trick hardware on the floor, but I’m particularly stoked to see Fisker’s Karma—the dead-sexy plug in hybrid that’s giving Maserati’s Quatroporte body image issues—in person. And I’m also curious to get some face time with the ’10 Dodge Viper ACR, Toyota’s Sienna, Honda’s Personal-Neo Urban Transport, and BMW’s Vision EfficientDynamics Concept, which is pictured below. Nads and I will be pushing up content as soon as we get in the door, so stay tuned, and let us know if there’s anything you want to see.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Just 219 miles! Talk about pristine! How high do you think the bidding will go? Check out the eBay aution for more info and pics!

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By John Naderi

StreetFire.net

Aaaah, the allure of the garage sale and its free-spirited sister, the yard sale. Such expeditions normally involve a bit of work to unearth the really good finds such as the finest costume jewelry, a master collection of Meg Ryan films or even a ceramic Chihuahua adorned with a comically oversized sombrero. But what’s that in the corner? Is that a PRofec Type-S boost controller?! Well, it is if you get your sweet fanny to the upcoming GReddy
Garage Sale.

This is an annual affair where the JDMest tuner of them all opens it’s So Cal-based North American HQ doors to the public. Among the available treasures are one-of-a-kind R&D parts, hard-to-find JDM pieces and open box items all for insane Crazy Larry, everything-must-go deals. There will also be raffles as well as GReddy’s gorgeous project cars on display. Hit the jump to get more info and to see a video from last year’s GReddy Performance Festival (think performance enhanced garage sale).

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By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Our friends at Grassroots Motorsports just put out their 25th anniversary issue. That’s a pretty big accomplishment for a totally independent, family run operation, and my hat is off to Tim Suddard and his crew. If you’re not a subscriber or can’t make it down to the newstand, they made the entire issue available in digital format. The issue’s feature article is their list of “the 25 best cars ever.” It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the magazine that the Miata made the top spot, but I was pleased to see that the Mustang made the #4 slot and that the Volvo 240 squeaked in at #25. There’s also a great article on the 24 Hours of Lemons, and I was very happy to see that two CarDomain members made the list of “three cars that should have sucked but totally didn’t”–the UDMan’s Corvair and the Team Size Matters Fury.

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By Ryan Brutt

HemiPwr70

There was more than just the three barns? I didn’t know how that could be. I mean, I just had multiple heart attacks and was pretty light headed. Could I take more? Well of course I could, but it just kept getting crazier and crazier!

My friend Shad asked our host if we could walk down to the cars in the field. I was all set, I had the adrenaline pumping, my jacket off and I was ready to rock. But our host said to jump in the truck. So we obliged and jumped in the bed (well I sat on the tail gate, I’m not one for jumping). And he drove us down to the field.

At first you really don’t see anything other than the fields of corn and the stream bed with a bunch of trees. I’m a camping fan, and this looked like an incredible spot to camp, trees, and a nice bubbling brook. I could spend a summer there… and then we came upon the cars, and what a sight they were. 

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