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Someone Drove a Car Down the I-90 Floating Bridge’s Bike Path, and Washington’s Penalty for It Is a Mess Aerial shot of a floating bridge linking Seattle across Lake Washington.

Someone Drove a Car Down the I-90 Floating Bridge’s Bike Path, and Washington’s Penalty for It Is a Mess

EL Puckett September 17, 2026 0
Video of a car on the I-90 Trail has been circulating since September 10. The statutes that...
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NASCAR Ironman Dave Marcis Got Robbed While Out of Town, and the Case Cracked Open at a Flea Market people walking on street during daytime

NASCAR Ironman Dave Marcis Got Robbed While Out of Town, and the Case Cracked Open at a Flea Market

John Lloyd September 17, 2026 0
Dave Marcis spent 35 years getting shot at by other drivers’ fenders across 883 Sunday afternoons, and...
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California Car Influencer and Hooters Calendar Girl Identified in McLaren Crash; No Word On Who Was Driving An orange McLaren 720S supercar parked, shown as a file photo

California Car Influencer and Hooters Calendar Girl Identified in McLaren Crash; No Word On Who Was Driving

John Lloyd September 15, 2026 0
Relatives have named the second Irvine McLaren victim, but police still have not said who was driving....
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Today in Automotive History: The Car That Killed Isadora Duncan Wasn’t the Bugatti Everyone Remembers Black-and-white view of a 1920s open sports car showing its wire-spoked wheel and minimal cycle fender

Today in Automotive History: The Car That Killed Isadora Duncan Wasn’t the Bugatti Everyone Remembers

EL Puckett September 14, 2026 0
On September 14, 1927, Isadora Duncan died when her shawl caught an open wire wheel. The car...
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An Unmarked Tow Truck, a Scanner, and an 11-Year-Dead Registration: Inside LA’s Bandit Towing Crackdown A tow truck towing a car on the road

An Unmarked Tow Truck, a Scanner, and an 11-Year-Dead Registration: Inside LA’s Bandit Towing Crackdown

John Lloyd September 10, 2026 0
West Hollywood sheriff’s deputies flagged a tow truck near La Brea Avenue and Fountain Avenue last week...
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A Corvette Sat at the Bottom of Oregon’s Willamette River for Decades. Pulling It Out Is What Finally Destroyed It green trees beside river during daytime

A Corvette Sat at the Bottom of Oregon’s Willamette River for Decades. Pulling It Out Is What Finally Destroyed It

John Lloyd September 6, 2026 0
Water is supposed to be what kills an old car. Rust doesn’t need much encouragement, and a...
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A New Mexico Security Guard’s Fake Traffic Stop Was Illegal Twice Over — Before Police Ever Showed Up Long-exposure highway light trails at night, evoking red and blue emergency lighting

A New Mexico Security Guard’s Fake Traffic Stop Was Illegal Twice Over — Before Police Ever Showed Up

Shawn Henry September 5, 2026 0
Picture merging onto Interstate 40 outside Albuquerque and catching lights in your mirror, blue up front, red...
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Thieves Hit NASCAR Iron Man Dave Marcis’ Home, Made Off With Guns, Rolexes, and Irreplaceable Racing History Dave Marcis' #71 Chevrolet at Pocono Raceway in 1983

Thieves Hit NASCAR Iron Man Dave Marcis’ Home, Made Off With Guns, Rolexes, and Irreplaceable Racing History

John Lloyd September 5, 2026 0
Dave Marcis spent thirty-five years in NASCAR’s Cup Series proving a driver didn’t need a fat budget...
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A Wichita Dealer Billed a Customer to Fix a Transmission It Never Touched and Sat on His Title for 500 Days. Now It’s Closed. a close up of a machine with many gears

A Wichita Dealer Billed a Customer to Fix a Transmission It Never Touched and Sat on His Title for 500 Days. Now It’s Closed.

Shawn Henry September 4, 2026 0
In September of 2024, a man walked into Sunset Auto Sales on South Broadway in Wichita and...
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A Camaro, a Bridge, and Nine Charges: What a Tennessee Drag Race Actually Costs When Kids Are in the Back Seat A police light bar flashing red and blue against a dark night background

A Camaro, a Bridge, and Nine Charges: What a Tennessee Drag Race Actually Costs When Kids Are in the Back Seat

John Lloyd September 2, 2026 0
On Wednesday, August 26, an officer patrolling South Broadway in Portland, Tennessee watched two cars line up...
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A CDL School Told Inspectors Its Classroom Was Inside a School Bus. That’s How Bad Trucking Fraud Has Gotten. Blue semi-truck approaching on a highway from a car's perspective

A CDL School Told Inspectors Its Classroom Was Inside a School Bus. That’s How Bad Trucking Fraud Has Gotten.

John Lloyd August 31, 2026 0
Federal investigators sent 175 people into 40 states this summer to check on truck driving schools, and...
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Houston’s Real Batmobile Got a Flat Tire on I-45, and the Repair Bill Isn’t the Interesting Part a car that is sitting in the grass

Houston’s Real Batmobile Got a Flat Tire on I-45, and the Repair Bill Isn’t the Interesting Part

John Lloyd August 31, 2026 0
Houston drivers have gotten used to seeing a low, black, fin-covered car cruising around town with a...
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