By Jim Brennan

UDMan

Welcome to the CarDomain Obscure Muscle Car Parking Lot, a series where I describe what I consider to be a muscle car, and where you either agree or disagree with me. It has been a fun year last year, and in December I ran a series of posts in which I asked you, the reader, to select your favorites by decade. Well, it’s time to reveal the best, and to do a final vote. Think of it as the Superbowl of Obscurity.

Continue reading (and vote!) after the jump!

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By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

Back in early January, a news story came across the wires that an ultra rare Bugatti Type 22 roadster had been pulled off the bottom of an Italian lake. It had been submerged 70 some years ago when customs officials could not obtain the proper documentation on the car and had to destroy it. They chose to push it into a watery grave, and there it sat for seven decades. It was removed and sold at auction, netting $370,000!

The truly cool part is that the money from the sale is not going into the pocket of some treasure hunter, instead it is going to a charitable foundation founded in the memory of a young Italian racing driver who was attacked and died from his injuries. The car was located by a local diving club and they teamed up with the charity to haul the car out of the water.

The story we read on Yahoo! Cars said that the car needs to be 80% restored. We think they lowballed that number by about 20%. Either way, we’re sure that the buyer, who essentially paid for the honor to pay a bunch of money to bring the car back to life will do the machine proud and the next story we will see will show a gleaming Bugatti Type 22 roadster. Thanks to BangShift.com forum member Malc for the tip! Via Yahoo

By Ben Schaffer

The Real JDM

Having been blown away by seeing this thing at Tokyo Auto Salon, I wanted to write another blog post related to it.

By now I think we all know how incredible the cardboard GT500 NSX project turned out. For those of you who saw it in person, it was especially amazing when placed next to other Super GT cars. From a distance it literally fooled me and had me thinking it was a real car that just looked “a little unusual”. For a fan at heart like me, I’d love to one day own a 1:1 cardboard replica like this! But for now, I’ll just dream of having enough space at home to be able to own something like this.

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By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

Are Winnebagos collectible? Old camp trailers certainly are, and there’s no denying the iconography of the Winnebago, so the elements are there. But judging from the $2,995 asking price of this 1972 Brave currently for sale on Hemmings.com, and the fact that the only place you see Winnebagos at collector car auctions is in the parking lot, I’m inferring that there’s not much demand for them. Correct? From the seller’s description:

Rare 18 ft, 318 V8, auto, 66K miles, driven here a year ago from Arizona, runs and drives excellent, great rubber, all the lights work, original paint, interior needs finishing, drive to camp or tailgate with style.

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

Laurence from Japan sent us this great little film about extending the life of a drift car’s bumper. The clip is part of the Phat Sliggity DVD. Enjoy!

By Mike Garrett

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Our buddies at PASMAG sent us a bunch of pics from the Tokyo Auto Salon. Check ‘em out over in Events!

By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

Pulling a blistering 1.48 second 60 foot time and 9.66 second quarter mile time at 146.19 mph, the Lethal Performance team holds the record for fastest 2010 Ford Shelby GT500. Still room left for vehicle and run improvement, Lethal Performance is sure to break it’s own record in the near future. Read more about the run at Tampa Sports Car Examiner.

By Ted Berner

GTwildfire

I have commented about Nano Titanate Lithium battery technology and blogged about EVs. I don’t think that “planned obsolescence” has a place in the EV market or any market for that matter. If you have a best idea, use it. If there’s something, some technology out there that’s available and obviously better than what you’re planning to use – and will make an insanely huge improvement in your product – Why not use it? If I scratched my head starting right now for every time auto makers left me scratching my head, I’d be scratching my skull when finished.

With that said here are two articles. The first is a bus demonstration for Washington politicians. The demonstrator bus drives 2.5 hours on a 5 minute charge.

The second article is recent publicity from a well-known EV manufacturer. I’m not going to mention them by name because they represent the status quo for most production or production-bound EV development, and this is the direction they’re taking with respect to powering their vehicles.

I know and respect that some of you hate the idea of electric vehicles and probably would never own one. There are many more that would, however. It stands to reason that the transition to an electric car would not involve planning for the next day by plugging in or any other concessions. Using one, as a requirement by John Q. Public MUST involve fast (and I mean 10 minutes or less) recharges resulting in a range similar to that of a gasoline-burning rival in the marketplace, period.

Not buying gas? Great for some. Not taking hours to recharge? Great for most. Why don’t they get it?

By Fireball Tim

Movie Car Design Master

And so it begins…

With the alphabet comes cool cars across the globe. We begin with the A’s. If your name starts with an A, ends with an A, has an A in it or you just like the letter A ’cause it reminds you of Alphabet Soup, this post is for you… man.

Can you name them? I knew that you could. More after the jump!

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By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

In order to have more appeal up in the Great White North, F1’s overlords have decided to hold one race on frozen lake. Kidding. But Sebastien Buemi sure looks like he’s having a good time drifting around in this promo spot, though you have to wonder if this stunt is worth the money. And aren’t F1 cars super delicate? Seems like subjecting one to super-low temperatures would be bad, but what do I know?