By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

I guess he has a new reality show? Smells like fail.

By Chris Bicknell

Bick66

Until recently, the thought of owning a radar detector had never crossed my mind.  But shortly after receiving a $358 speeding ticket in my Corvette, a fellow CarDomain member suggested a laser-shifting and radar-detecting system that I later purchased and had installed by the guys at Corvettes of Auburn. Now I don’t condone reckless driving or excessive speeding but I will tell you that Jen and I made ridiculously good time on our trip from Seattle to L.A. last weekend, and being virtually invisible helped to avoid any attention from the local highway patrol or aerial speed enforcement.  My Escort Passport–complete with three laser shifters, one large frame-mounted radar detector, central processor and cabin control module–appears to work extremely well both for detecting conventional radar in time to avoid being tagged, and scrambling those laser guns the cops like to point at fast-looking cars.  How about you? How do you feel about radar detectors?

By David Clarke

highspeedhijinks

The other day, I finally sold my 20 inch Dayton wheels that I’ve had for 4 years. With only about 5,000 miles on the tires, they sold for my asking price of $900 bucks–and naturally, I’ve already been mapping out exactly how I’m going to put the proceeds back into my ride. Like many of us, I love to plan out my next move when it comes to my car, and selling the wheels was something I had to do to take my ride in the new direction I have planned for it. With a bit of artistic talent and the help of MS Paint, I’m forever creating renderings to help me get a visual of how things might look if I did x, y, or z. Then once I have the look pinned down, it’s on to the internetz to price out parts and crunch numbers. Half the time I think doing the research for my next move is as exciting as looking at the final project when it’s all done. So the question today is–do you plan out your automotive moves like a 4-star general, as I do? Or are you more of a shoot-from-the-hip type who adds mods to your car on a whim? Follow the jump for more on what I’ve been plotting.

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By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

When pondering the question of whether or not I’d want to live in a given locale, it always comes down to the issue of vehicle storage. LA’s Hermosa Beach is pretty, but I’d  have some reservations about parking all my rides in the street on an incline in a drunken-frat-boy part of town. Whoever owns this collection–and I’m guessing, just a hunch, that the trio of tan pickups plus what I suspected to be a suicide-doors Continental under a car cover all belong to the same person–seems to be making it work. Or not? The International camper was slowly accumulating parking tickets, and it’s hard to guess where you’d wrench on anything. More pics below the jump.

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By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

A bystander in Turkey was hit by a car performing donuts and power slides in a crowded road. The pedestrian was trying to get a great shot of the sliding car and was taken out by the sliding street racer. Who’s at fault, the driver or the pedestrian? Comment below! Read more about the incident at Tampa Sports Car Examiner.

By Alex Vickers

Katakuna

Horrible car listings make my brain hurt. Is it ever okay to list a total junker as “in fair condition” when it “needs welding around the shock housing”? A dismal example of dodgy listing is this ad on Facebook for a supposedly all-wheel-drive 1991 Mitsubishi Eclipse. First thing that caught my attention was the “Limited Edition” badge: I worked at Wal-Mart long enough to know that they sell this exact sticker there, and that the only thing limited about this car is power (that’s a whole can o’ worms itself, more on that in a bit). There was no such thing as this designation for the Eclipse. The “turbo” badge is another Wal-Mart special–I had the same one pasted on my laptop! Hey, at least he admits that’s fake. And, unless I’m horribly mistaken, the base model did not come with all-wheel-drive.

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By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Visiting SoCal this week, Chris and I were treated to a bit of junkyard tourism–my favorite vacation activity!–thanks to local auto-recycling aficionado and Editor-in-Chief of Clunkbucket, Mike Bumbeck. One of the coolest sights on the tour Mike gave us was definitely Aalden Bros‘ iconic feature wall, a collection of cars around the yard’s perimeter that are just too cool to crush, a still from which forms Clunkbucket’s header pic. I of course loved the Gremlin and the Plymouth Fire Arrow, but the wall also contained some vastly more obscure imports, many of which you’ll probably never see in person anywhere but here in Sun Valley. Take a look!

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