Introducing RoadHead: Or, How to Stop Worrying And Love Renegade Auto Journalism

"RoadHead -- Armand" (armandks) 08/15/2014 at 11:38 • Filed to: RoadHead, cougar, Armand, mercury, thesmokingtire, rmauctions, introducing

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Hello everybody. My name is Armand, I am 20 years old, and I love cars. I never had a choice in the matter: from a young age I have been drawn to the melding of man and machine in the automotive form. Like many of you, to be sure, I spent many hours as a wee lad designing wild cars. And now today, I am working hard to make my dream of designing cars professionally a reality.

However, I am not some straight laced student who keeps their head down and their nose in buried in the books. I'm a reckless son of a bitch. I am a RoadHead. Starting today, I will be infusing Oppositelock and hopefully Jalopnik with a variety of off-the-wall and entertaining articles. Ranging from topics such as how to build convert a 50 year old car into a hybrid, how to crash said hybrid, how to sneak into Concours D' Elegance, how to educate Matt Farah, and how to convince Hagerty to give you bidders passes to the most prestigious car auctions in the world.

A little bit about myself: I have two cars, my runabout, which is 1995 BMW 525i, and my baby, a 1968 Mercury Cougar with custom gadgets up the wazoo.

My Cougar is my pride and joy, a product of a lot of blood and sweat shared between me and my father in that best of American traditions. Currently I am building it into the ultimate police pursuit evasion vehicle. More on that to come. Currently I am in sunny (not!) Seattle visiting a friend but can usually be found on the highways and byways of California. As a hobby I work in the film and television industry, including a certain upcoming superhero film from DC. Yeah, that one. Anyway, I bring with me much filmmaking experience and I intend to inject our lovely little sub log with high quality videos of the educational variety.

So that's me. Stay tuned for tomorrow's post, where I will discuss how I snuck into RM Auctions yesterday, fondled a Tucker, was served Caviar for whatever reason, and bumped into TheSmokingTire. Have a nice Friday Opponauts! The best is yet to come!

RoadHead -- Armand > RoadHead -- Armand 08/15/2014 at 11:41

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How do I tag a Kinja account in a post?

Mattbob > RoadHead -- Armand 08/15/2014 at 11:43

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I am a RoadHead

What does this mean? I don't think you are using this in the common fashion.

boss302ls > RoadHead -- Armand 08/15/2014 at 11:43

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Hmmm, so....maybe you already know this, but the term "Road Head" has a meaning other than how you seem to be using it......

mr_gofast > RoadHead -- Armand 08/15/2014 at 11:44

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edit it ...place tags - in your case call the tag discussion

RoadHead -- Armand > Mattbob 08/15/2014 at 11:45

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It's cool, I'm taking it back

RoadHead -- Armand > RoadHead -- Armand 08/15/2014 at 11:45

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Soon, we shall all be Roadheads!!!

RoadHead -- Armand > boss302ls 08/15/2014 at 11:45

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It's cool, I'm taking it back.

Mattbob > RoadHead -- Armand 08/15/2014 at 11:46

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touché

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > RoadHead -- Armand 08/15/2014 at 13:19

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Ive already been introduced to road head.

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > RoadHead -- Armand 08/15/2014 at 15:30

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Pretty sure it's got no take backs status

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > RoadHead -- Armand 08/15/2014 at 20:16

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I understood this reference.

Spoon II > RoadHead -- Armand 08/15/2014 at 20:26

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Your car can only be described as pimptastic! Looking forward to your stuff!

Tohru > RoadHead -- Armand 08/19/2014 at 09:40

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Currently I am building it into the ultimate police pursuit evasion vehicle.

You should pick something less conspicuous... and with faster acceleration... and easier to hide... What I'm saying is you should pick a liter-class supersport motorcycle.

RoadHead -- Armand > Tohru 08/19/2014 at 13:00

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A bike is seriously lacking in its ability to ram barricades and enemies.

Tohru > RoadHead -- Armand 08/19/2014 at 15:43

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A bike can shoot the gaps in barricades and outmaneuver enemies.

If you're wanting to do ramming a Cougar still isn't great - it's too light and sporty. You'd need a big heavy tank like an Imperial or a Country Squire wagon or a GM B-body or a Panther platform.