"DasWauto" (DasWauto)
12/06/2013 at 14:30 • Filed to: Best of Oppositelock
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"DasWauto" (DasWauto)
12/06/2013 at 14:30 • Filed to: Best of Oppositelock | 10
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Gathered here are the Oppositelock posts that people put a good deal of effort into writing on Wednesday and Thursday. It includes a tribute to a Cadillac Calais, a Ferrari 365 Daytona, an amphicar and more.
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Thanksgiving is a time for flying home to tiny towns in the middle of seemingly nowhwere and spending time with family, at lest for me it is. This year we went to the tiny town of Belpre, Ohio where my wife grew up and stayed in what until recently was the home of Annie Chicketti. Annie passed away last year, but not before she, the daughter of Italian immigrants crammed in exactly 100 years of jam-packed living. She started and ran a restaurant that ran for over 50 years and continues to serve home made pies to this day, she traveled the world, she maintained a crush on Matt Damon, and more importantly to people here, she took great care of her car.
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I've read like a million times before about the most Jalop vehicle being brown, RWD, and a four-cylinder diesel wagon, with a manual transmission. Today I felt an urge to look up if such vehicle even exists or if it is just an urban legend and lives as part of the Jalopnik folklore, haunting Zac's and other fellow Opponaut's dreams.
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Last week I went on my first actual vacation in years, my family and I drove up to Northern California for Thanksgiving and along the way we stayed at a friends place in Studio City. When we got up that morning we went out to breakfast down on Ventura, and about 5 minutes after we got there, this beautiful, beautiful car pulls up.
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Just as all the cars I've had before her, I love my car. I tend to keep my cars for six months to a year maximum and don't recall ever having one for more than a year. For my birthday this year in May I decided to purchase a very clean single owner E39 530i, which I absolutely adore.
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US President Lyndon Baines Johnson was a proud Amphicar owner and would drive at high speeds down hills in his Texas ranch screaming to his terrified passengers that the brakes had failed. The Amphicar would splash into a small lake and LBJ would erupt into fits of laughter as his passengers soiled themselves.
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In case you hadn't been following along west african adventures are my travel logs from when I lived in west africa in 2007-2008. Today's adventure is about hosting the 2008 african cup of nations tournament. The cup consisted of 16 teams competing in groups of 4 in 4 different venues around the country.The venues were: Accra, Sekondi, Kumasi and Tamale. Ghana had been ramping up to host the event for several years including building new stadiums in Tamale and Sekondi, and completing new roads inside the capital city to ease Accra's endless and hopeless traffic congestion.
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What has a supercharged V8, 450+hp, and the ability to enter and exit the corporate parking deck in a sideways smokey fashion? The car I bring you from the land of a thousand and one auctions for new Chinese junk, is this lovely W211 Mercedes Benz E55 AMG. This car has been featured in many pictures and videos for the wheel company Vossen, its also in my rotating wallpaper on my desktop because I always thought it looked great. So imagine my surprise when I got in an argument with a friend over W211 vs W210 E55's, hopped on ebay, and found this for sale!
The Best of the Rest
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As always, If I've missed something and you would like me to include it, let me know.
Fun Discussions
There were several posts that asked questions and sparked some good discussion on Wednesday and Thursday. Take a peek and chime in on some of them listed below:
Battle starting at $99,000......FIGHT!
Recommend me some driving shoes
What Can You Buy For The Price Of A 911?
Which car has the biggest caboose?
An Alternative Set of Formula 1 Rules
What car would be the best all-rounder?
What Color Would You Get it In: Ford Mustang
What Color Would You Get it In: Ferrari FF
What car looks worst with the "wrong" license plates?
Fusion & 2015 Mustang, Too Similar?
Match a car to a personality 11
Do you like the C230 Hatchback?
Looking for a solid suv with under 100k miles and under 10,000
Craigslist Hunt: $15,000 70s Muscle
If everything goes right, what is your next car?
Just the #tips
Canadian Senator Falls Asleep Driving BMW on Parliament Hill
Hulkenberg Interview Sky sports F1
BMW Boss Confirms 11 FWD Models
2014 World Rallycross Championship Calendar Confirmed
Scene-for-scene Blues Brothers Mall Scene remake... in LEGO!
Your freaky Japanese tire commercial of the day
Pedestrian Hit By Crashing Car O_O
Portion of FF6 DVD proceeds to go to Paul Walker charity
What a Car Enthusiast Looks Like: The Followup
Fast & Furious Makers Made a Video Tribute to Paul Walker
Chris Harris throws in his two cents about the Carrera GT
Watch This Evolution of Formula 1 Cars
F&F filming suspended indefinitely
Buy A DailyTurismo T-Shirt And Donate To Paul Walker's Charity
Honourable Mentions
These posts have already been shared with Jalopnik directly but deserve to be mentioned again because they were first posted in Oppositelock:
USS Yorktown Visit, Charleston SC
Praguian chopped Beetle channels its inner Batmobile
Want to participate on Oppositelock? Check out the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! as well the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to help you get started.
thebigbossyboss
> DasWauto
12/06/2013 at 14:32 |
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Aw yeah. Best of Oppo. Don't mind if I do. Thanks Das wauto!
Cherry_man1
> DasWauto
12/06/2013 at 15:16 |
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Cool I made best of the rest! That's a first!
offroadkarter
> DasWauto
12/06/2013 at 18:27 |
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Thanks!