Somethings just shouldn't be done to vehicles

Yes, we are all proud of the multiple uses of duct tape, but there ain't no way it's going to replace a nut or bolt in a gear set.

Via: http://www.darkroastedblend.com

Wouldn't city transportation be more appealing with the original streetcars?

Above image via: http://hooniverse.com

but the shortsighted greedy bastards sold out to gross polluting diesel bussses, and trashed all the cool looking and electric streetcars. Morons. I was reading recently about all the cities that went to electric streetcars as a pollution reducing measure, and to increase the effective public transit systems. Here in San Diego when huge events like major league ballgames, national football league games, or an event like Comic-Con happen, the go to device for getting there and back is usually the trolley system. Nothing as aesthetic as the old street cars, but serviceable

Am I nuts? Or does a cop smoking a cigar at a gas station seem like a poster for unsafe behavior?

What do you think? Maybe I'm too hard on law enforcement, but everytime I see a cop car, it's speeding, changing lanes with out signaling, talking on a cell phone (yup, they are exempt from that new law) parking in a way that would be a ticket for anyone else... etc etc.

Maybe I'm too critical of them, but I doubt it. . . they aren't allowed to smoke in the cruisers to top it off.

Everything about this porsche is top shelf.... but after spending a fortune on a marvelous car, they slap a license plate on it so shabby

Isn't that the worst looking install you've seen yet?

Stop reposting everything from my site "designautomotivestyle" it's not cool to plagarize everything from me, try contributing original stuff yourself

Everything from March of 2010 through August 2010 is ripped from this blog. Not very cleverly as some of the posts still show the links I put in the texts like in http://designautomotivestyle.blogspot.com/2010/03/playmate-pink.html

So beware all readers and followers, this is just one of 2 blogs that are copying everything I do and not being honest about it.

The guy talking credit for posting everything I created is "aku adalah" may the fleas of a 1000 camels infest his bed and may every bite they take become infected and stink.

This is why trailers were invented for jet skis

This blistered tire is on the front passenger side of a convertible expensive BMW, and the owner refused to buy a new tire.

When the unsafe condition was pointed out to the owner, and a new tire was recommended (not for a commission, but for the safety of him and his car) he refused to consider it, and stated that he'd "Keep an eye on it"

These idiots are everywhere, so be careful on the road, this idiot could be in front of you.

Yes I do speak my mind, call a moron that when I see one acting incredibly stupid, and post the photos that prove it for you readers to appreciate how your safety is compromised by the A holes that share the road with you:
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/07/be-careful-out-there-idiots-are-driving.html

Only A holes park in a fire lane, 15 feet from the paking lot, at Costco Mission Valley food court.

Be careful out there, idiots are driving unsafely. This idiot has 3 back wheels, missing one on the right rear dualie, unsafe to turn at speed

You should have seen this lean when the RV changed lanes. Dangerous!

Great news, Arizona Speed cameras turned off

Arizona turns off speed cameras

Arizona has turned off every speed camera on its highways after complaints that they violated privacy and were designed to generate revenue rather than promote road safety.

A spokesman for Jan Brewer, the state's Republican governor, said she "was uncomfortable with the intrusive nature of the system", which was inherited from her Democratic predecessor.

Opening in October 2008, the scheme was first in the United States to use speed cameras across a whole state. Amid objections of Big Brother-ism, numerous cameras were vandalised, while the operator of a van carrying a mobile camera was shot dead in a lay-by in April 2009

The 76 cameras took 2.7 million photographs, but only 16 per cent of drivers who received a speeding ticket paid up.

The scheme generated $76 million (£50 million) for a state which has struggled to balance its budget, while the Department of Public safety reported a 19 per cent drop in fatal collisions on highways. But campaigners argued that safety could be improved by more police patrols.

Speed cameras introduced by the authorities in several Arizonan cities are unaffected by the decision.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7895310/Arizona-turns-off-speed-cameras.html

Los Angeles Red Light cameras, the city says it's losing money on the whole thing

http://www.knx1070.com/Red-Light-Cameras--Good-or-Bad-for-LA-/6639883#

To listen to the podcast (it's a short news clip) click on the link.

Briefly, the city of LA stop light cameras make 4 million a month, and LA says it's costing them 100,000 dollars a month.... yeah, they say they are losing on the stop light camera system.

The motorcycle gods invoked karma on this Honda. Lesson to be learned? Stupid will cost you, don't park in motorbike spots

That's how far the tail sticks out when a 4 door civic parks in motorcycle reserved location, it says so right under the rear tires in the photo below

fundamental lack of knowing when it's time to stop messing up your vehicle

via: http://www.youdrivewhat.com/

NYPD detectives parking illegally, and getting towed!

Dozens of detectives say they have had their department cars towed — by their own department.

On at least 35 occasions, have walked outside to find their cars hooked by a special detail of the Internal Affairs Bureau that hunts for illegally parked cop cars.

From http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/detectives_getting_tow_nailed_KmuIlC8eJkI9k1WDyHFOcJ
Via: http://gothamist.com/2010/03/09/detectives_say_their_cars_shouldnt.php

Comments in this news article point out that the cops took overtime pay to get the cars out of the tow yard. Further endearing is that the city cars, were being locked up... by... the city. So, stupidity abounds, NYPD cops are hypocrites and not aware of the oath of office they swore (and that pisses me off) and then complained about Internal Affairs busting them for being parking a-holes. Int he word of the great Walter Matthau "Putz!"

But when their former leader New York City police commissioner Kerik just plead guilty to no less that 8 Ferderal Felony Charges, what can you expect of leaderless NYPD? That their integrity would be scupulous? http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/bernard_b_kerik/index.html?inline=nyt-per

not that I'm on a roll, but everywhere you look at New York news the cops are hypocrits and worse http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2010/03/another-cop-claims-he-was-pressured-to.html

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton's dictum, April 1887
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton

Stupid people shouldn't breed, they let their kid play with alligators

via: http://phreddy.tumblr.com known as Eccentric Pianos

Did you hear about the idea from C.A.R.B. to make it illegal to have low air pressure in your tires?

"California Air Resources Board and who have strong influence over Arnold and the Democrats in the Legislature. They want to make it a crime to have low air pressure in your tires. They use a “scientist” with a mail-order degree to certify the legitimacy of their slanted research. They pursue a unilateral, California-only approach to global warming that will cripple our economy unless the rest of the world takes a similar approach."

http://www.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/americas-finest/2010/feb/04/crusade-against-free-parking-mania-keeps-spreading/

last incredibly unreal concept from the idiots at CARB (Calif Air Resource Board) was to make it illegal to have black roofs on cars because it absorbs solar heat, makes cars warmer inside, and cuases people to run their AC more, increasing the load on a cars engine, and then decreasing the engines efficiency. Except that it really doesn't have much effect to run your AC, these aren't 1963 air conditioning units.

When the LA streetcars were replaced by buses, the cool streetcars were dumped and used as artificial reefs, some went to Korea in '56

Above went to Korea in 1956

Ain't the above photo a crying shame?! From a documentary I watched, GM lobbied local, state, and federally to get all street cars killed off because GM could make tons of money selling fleets of busses. Guess who already had GM stock? Yup, the people who got rid of the wonderful streetcars. How much pollution have the busses emitted since the streetcars went away? Only US cities that kept their tourist attracting street cars that I know of are San Francisco and New Orleans, two cities that love their history.

read about the re-birth of street cars: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/world/americas/14iht-city.4.15301447.html

images via: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4927350

this moron is clueless, burns out his trans, and thinks the smoke is from the tires. Another rich person that hates their car. What a tool

Remember hearing about the Coddington RV getting stuck on Bonneville and needed 4 tow trucks to get out?

For a write up about the whole fiasco of stupidity: http://www.saltflats.com/stuck.htm

I may have started a riot, 2 months ago I posted about activists, a month later... they messed with the bikers, and lost

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/biker-gangs.html was when I mentioned the old joke that the fur activists mess with rich old women and not with biker gangs... well, maybe that made them think they had what it takes to mess with niker gangs...

Headline: Activists missing after declaring war on leather at motorcycle rally

http://glossynews.com/society/201001070305/activists-missing-after-declaring-war-on-leather-at-motorcycle-rally/

“They peed on me!!!” charged one activist. “They grabbed me, said I looked like I was French, started calling me ‘La Trene’, and duct taped me to a tree so they could pee on me all day!”

When confronted with the allegations of force-feeding the activists meat, using them as ad hoc latrines, leaving them incapacitated in fast food restaurant dumpsters, and ‘farting on their heads,’ the organizer declined to comment in detail. “That’s just our secret handshake,” assured the organizer.