Lamborghini Jalpa

This post was originally published on CarLustBlog.com on December 3, 2014. Dead hyperlinks and a couple of irrelevant sentences have been removed.

When did I first learned about the Lamborghini Jalpa? Was it when I saw a pic of it was while perusing through IMDCb.com’s Miami Vice page a couple of years ago? Could have been Rocky IV. I truly believe it was in an indoor auto expo. I have photographic evidence and everything on that one.

Despite all the jokes and ribbing that went on in a Jalopnik.com review, it did give out facts, and one of the most important ones was that this car is rare. About 410/416/420 units rare, depending on who you ask.

2002-2005 Honda Civic Si (EP3)

This post was originally published on December 18, 2012 on CarLustBlog.com. Aside from a little editing, pic substitution and removal of dead links and a sentence, it’s all the same, overall.

While Hondas have not been super-influential to me, I gotta admit that I liked them. I drew their sleek 2-door CG-series Accords and EK9 Civic hatchbacks (both 6th-gen models from their respective models) in my school notebooks from time to time. They were just great-looking cars.

When the 7^th-gen Civics rolled in, it took me awhile to get used to the coupe and sedan’s cleaner, sanitary lines. OK, it didn’t take that long. Then I saw the hatch. I was blown away! If the coupe and sedan were evolutionary, the hatch was definitely revolutionary.

The Most Famous Tractor In The World. Well, maybe.

You start it up, and pyrotechnics go off that would shame any fireworks display.  Point to one of its wheels, and it falls off.  Point to a second wheel, and it falls off too.  So does the steering wheel.  Grab the wiring harness and the gauges fall out, saying you’re flying at 3,000 feet.  Whatever you do, don’t call it any names or it might chase you around the barnyard.

This is a typical day in the life of a Hoyt Clagwell tractor.

The Gumball Rally (1976), a review:

Not as awesome as the Japanese movie poster, but it’s still good.

The Gumball Rally is a secret cross-continental race where by invitation only can men and women from all walks of life –teachers, housewifes, aristocrats, daredevils, etc.- running whatever vehicle they’ve chosen try to get from New York to Los Angeles first, perhaps even beating the previous year’s record time. While the race is spearheaded by candy company man Michael Bannon (Michael Sarrazin) -which explains the ‘Gumball’ name- and rich rival Steve Smith (Tim McIntire), it’s these two that would furiously contest getting there first with their respective copilots, as well as be the target for Lieutenant Roscoe (Normann Burton), who will be working with different law enforcement agencies to try yet again to stop the Gumball Rally.

The Cars From That ‘70s Show

This post was originally published on CarLustBlog.com on June 3, 2015. It’s been tweaked a bit, but otherwise it’s all the same.

That ‘70s Show was not only gut-busting entertainment, it was a learning experience, even if it had a lousy final season and continuity mistakes big enough to drive a Vista Cruiser through. It gave a window to how life was in mid-to-late 1970s North America. What we now consider kitschy-cool was actually considered lame back then, not everyone liked ABBA (or Styx for that matter), and being in the throes of adolescence sucked no matter what decade it is. Am I right?

If these cars could talk… most of them would have trouble remembering what went down.