September 13, 2026

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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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Seven Supercars Ran ‘Follow the Leader’ on a Colorado Highway. Deputies Were Already Waiting at the Finish Line police-catch-seven-drivers-turned-highway-race-track-speeding-colorado

Seven Supercars Ran ‘Follow the Leader’ on a Colorado Highway. Deputies Were Already Waiting at the Finish Line

John Lloyd August 21, 2026 0
Highway 103 in Clear Creek County, Colorado isn’t a closed circuit, a canyon run with a scenic...
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Someone Firebombed A McLaren Outside A Birmingham Wedding, And The Getaway Car Was A Volkswagen Golf McLaren Artura Spider, the brand's current V6 hybrid supercar, file photo

Someone Firebombed A McLaren Outside A Birmingham Wedding, And The Getaway Car Was A Volkswagen Golf

John Lloyd August 21, 2026 0
Somewhere outside a banqueting hall in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, three men in hoods spent roughly ten seconds throwing...
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