Can A $500 Craigslist BMW Beat $400K Rally Cars?

The answer is YES! This is the story of Bill Caswell, a man who bought a $500 BMW off Craigslist to race against $400k+ rally cars in a World Rally Championship race. Bill Caswell is a self-taught racing driver, mechanic, and fabricator. He taught himself how to build an FIA-legal roll cage because he wanted to spend the fabrication fee on race tires instead. What a gearhead… He made it into history when his 1991 $500 Craigslist BMW 318i triumphed over $400K race cars to make the podium at the WRC…

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Why Does a Policeman Touch a Tail Light?

Why Does a Policeman Touch a Tail Light? - Car humor

Policemen often press their hand against a stopped vehicle, usually the taillight or trunk. Officers employ this practice as a safety precaution. This way they are leaving fingerprints and DNA that indicate the officer was in contact with the vehicle. As Santa Monica Police Department’s information office stated, if something happen to the policeman the fingerprints will provide evidence that can identify the perpetrator’s vehicle. Police officers are no longer advised to tap on the taillights of cars, as this gives the officer’s position away, making them more susceptible to…

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Russian Extreme Game Show – “The Interception”

Russian Extreme Game Show - “The Interception”

“The Interception” is a Russian extreme game show, popular in 1997-1998. The presenter was Nikolay Fomenko and the main prize was a Daewoo Espero. The game involves two players, so-called “hijackers”, each in his car, accompanied by assistants, “the navigators”. Each car is equipped with a Lo Jack. The goal of the hijackers is to avoid getting arrested as long as possible. Their adversaries are “the hunters”, driving six Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors of the patrol service special battalion and they are leaded by a commanding officer. The pursuit…

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Car gets ‘stuck’ at 125mph: Frank Lecerf goes on 150-mile ride

A driver who was trapped in a car travelling at 125mph with a jammed accelerator and no brakes said: ‘It was as if my life was flashing before me’. Disabled Frank Lecerf, 36, had been driving to a local hypermarket when his specially-adapted Renault Laguna developed the nightmare fault. Suddenly the car began accelerating on its own as he drove sedately along a 60mph dual carriageway close to his home in Pont-de-Metz, near Amiens, in northern France. Without any pressure on the accelerator at all, the Laguna started to increase…

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Koreisha Mark

The Kōreisha mark (高齢者マーク, elderly car mark) is a statutory sign that is set up in the Road Traffic Law of Japan to indicate “aged person at the wheel”. Its official name is “aged driver sign” (高齢運転者標識, kōrei untensha hyōshiki). The law decrees that when a person who is aged 70 and over drives a car and if his/her old age could affect the driving, he/she should endeavor to display this mark on both the front and rear of the car. Drivers aged 75 and over are obliged to display…

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UK’s first fatal car accident

Bridget Driscoll stepped into the history books on August 17th 1896. Mrs Driscoll, a 44 year old housewife, while travelling from Old Town, became the first pedestrian in the UK to be killed by a car. Mrs Driscoll, was hit by an automobile belonging to the Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company that was being used to give demonstration rides, travelling at 4mph. She died within minutes of receiving a head injury. One witness described the car as travelling at “a reckless pace, in fact, like a fire engine”. The driver, working…

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The World’s Highest Speeding Fine

The World's Highest Speeding Fine - Car humor

Finnish tradition is to fine according to annual income. For years, this was based on the honor system. Finnish police would ask the person pulled over how much they made per year, consult a table, and fine them accordingly. The police hated it, though, because they were constantly lied to about how much people made. So, some years ago they got new high-tech tools for calculating traffic fines. In this beautiful country, the world-record speeding ticket was a cool $200,000. In this case, records showed that Jussi Salonoja, a 27-year-old…

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Richard Hammond Is An Awesome Father

Richard Hammond Is An Awesome Father

In 2007 Top Gear star Richard Hammond abandoned his Porsche 911 after being caught up in traffic chaos caused by the floods to run 16 miles home for his daughter’s fourth birthday. Hammond had been driving from London to his home in Herefordshire when he became stuck in traffic. After a long 12-hour journey, the star, nicknamed Hamster abandoned his Porsche 911 Carrera in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, at 3am on Saturday morning and ran home. Hammond told the Mirror: “There was no way I was going to miss it – I’m…

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