By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

I can’t even hope to do justice to this ad, so I’ll just re-post it in its original Engrish. It’s been flagged for removal from Craigslist, but you can still get the full text below the jump. I wonder if the seller is surprised he’s not getting his $6500 asking price, considering the speakers make weird Satanic backwards-mumbling sounds, the car moves itself after being parked, the mirrors readjust themselves in an effort to cause an accident, and specters with glowing red eyes appear in and around the car when it’s left overnight. Sign me up!

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By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

Admit it, you’ve been mowing your grass, buzzing along in fourth gear on your lawn tractor and clipping apexes around your house. If you’re like us, you don’t have a drink holder on your lawn tractor, but you do have a straight pipe and the governor has been disabled.

Turn your racing fantasies into reality in the world of the USLMRA! We’ve seen these lunatics on ESPN and it looks like insane amounts of fun. The race schedule seems to favor the Midwestern section of the country, but we bet there are local series all over the country.

Make no mistake about it, these guys are racers. The lawn tractors are heavily modified to greatly increase their ability to corner and achieve death defying speeds.

Hit the website and start plotting on how to chop and cut your current mower into a racing machine!

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Race fan Michael Owen, who once relocated so he could qualify for season tickets at Brands Hatch raceway in the UK, took a final lap around his beloved home track last week–in a hearse. Yep, the dead guy had arranged to have his cavalcade lap the track during his funeral procession. That’s nice and everything, but I guess it goes without saying that some things are better enjoyed alive. Read all about it here.

By David Clarke

highspeedhijinks

Last month in Sutton, West Virgina, Albert Dancy Jr. was shot during a domestic dispute that involved his ex-wife and some other guy. At his funeral, his 24-year-old son Adam thought it was best for his dad to go out the way he had always wanted: buried in the bed of his beloved 1967 Chevy pickup. Not wanting to go into the afterlife unarmed, Dancy had requested his pocket knife and his deer rifle to be buried with him as well. As Adam recalled of his father, “He said it always joking around, but he said it for so many years it was pretty much serious to me…I always took him seriously. It was the last thing I could do for him.” Your can read the rest of the story here.

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

We all get pretty stoked when we find a build sheet or something while dismantling our rides. But imagine if you found full photodocumentation of your car wrecked, sawed in half, rebuilt, and refinished as though nothing had happened.  This guy in Russia got the shock of his life after he popped a door panel to replace a speaker, then discovered a stack of photos and a letter from the former owner documenting the tribulations of his Audi’s previous existence. I guess this is why in America, we have Salvage titles. Straight from English Russia, here’s the translated letter, and check out the unbelievable photos after the jump.

Dear friend,

Thanks for buying my car. Just some time before I sold it I got into an accident driving this car. Don’t worry I am ok and the car was insured. So I’ve got the money from insurance company then went to scrap metal site and found everything I needed. Bit from there bit from everywhere and I’ve got all things I needed (see photos). Then I welded everything into one piece. And here it is, almost like new. I remember that people were complaining – “What a pity that my car is so sporty but not red!” – you shouldn’t complain anymore as you can see the driver’s door is red from inside.

Via VWVortex.

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By David Clarke

highspeedhijinks

There’s a ton of movie tribute cars out there, not to mention the hundreds of KITT’s and General Lee’s floating around. Here’s one movie car I bet you’ve never seen though: the Lord Humongous “Death Chariot.”  This 6-wheeled monster is based on an ’84 F-150 chassis, and even though the nitrous bottles strapped to the side aren’t hooked up, I bet it wouldn’t matter once this thing lurched into your rearview mirror. Details are scarce on this wild ride, but maybe if you see it out and about you can ask the two guys strapped to the front. Check out the rest of the gallery over at Jalopnik.

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Speaking of the Motherland, check out this awesome curbside mishap in Russia. The cool thing is how almost completely unscathed the VW is. If I had this cool a story to tell about how I got one of my parking dings, I’d probably leave it unrepaired. Follow the jump to check out the damage.

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By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Remember back when cars were still a total novelty? Nope, me neither. But apparently, old-timey folks did all kinds of goofy things with these new-fangled machines, seemingly failing to understand that a car doesn’t always work as a 1:1 substitute for a horse. Hilarity and quadriplegia ensued. Via Just a car guy.

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By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

Lebanon Valley Dragway is a great dragstrip in eastern New York State. It’s got a great history as a track that all the great touring professional racers hit during their barnstorming trips across the country in the ‘60s and ‘70s. It’s one of the tracks where Shirley Muldowney cut her teeth as well.

Dragstrips are not like road courses that are known for their layout. Nope, dragstrips are normally known for their oddball features or kitschy facets that just stick out in your memory.

I worked at Lebanon Valley Dragway when I was in college as an announcer and on one of my last days before graduation I brought my camera to take some photos to remember the place by. One thing I couldn’t forget to shoot was the track’s infamous Funny Car on a Pole. Read about it at BangShift.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Nail polish is useful for touching up chipped paint on bicycle frames, but would you paint a whole car with it? Sadly, the photographer for the Maryland Gazette didn’t manage to get the whole car in the photo, but you get the idea. The lady likes quilts. Via Jalopnik