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Archive for January, 2007
MAKE: Blog: Homemade Knight Rider K.I.T.T car…
This homebuilt 1984 Trans Am Knight Rider K.I.T.T car took over 4 years and $40k to make.. and now it’s on eBay…
MAKE: Blog: A desk… made from LEGO
Approximately 35,000 LEGO bricks were used. This includes almost all the pieces from 32 Blue Tubs (#3033), almost 300 (!) small baseplates (8×16 studs), and 63 blue plate packs from LEGO Shop-at-Home. A few other pieces were also bought from private collectors (226 tiles so the drawers could slide, et cetera).
Holden VE Commodore wins Australian Wheels’ COTY award - Autoblog
For those of you eagerly anticipating the U.S. arrival of Holden’s rear-wheel drive Zeta platform in the form of Chevy’s revived Camaro and the Pontiac G8, take heart that it’s officially proven itself in the land down under. Word has come from the other side the world that the Holden VE Commodore has won Wheels magazine’s 2006 Car of the Year award.
This stunning duo of jet-black goats had a huge crowd around them at Russo and Steele, and we were proud to be among them. Absolutely perfect cars mechanically, and that black paint looked like liquid. Despite their similarities, they are two very different cars.
2007 Russo & Steele, Scottsdale: 1970 Pontiac GTOs - Autoblog
Scotty’s MAME Cabinet Build - a photoset on Flickr
He has mentioned on many occasions that he really wants to build a MAME cabinet and has been storing up parts for such a project for years, but it never got off the ground. We decided since he’s gonna be 30, we should hook him up.
Stolen from MAKE: Blog: MAME Cabinet build (photos)
Watch this promo for Futurama’s return - TV Squad
Big huzzahs to reader John Geezer, who sent us a link to this fantastic promo for the upcoming new season of Futurama. The promo was created by Speed Bump Studios in an effort to get a job doing these for Comedy Central. It features a CGI version of Bender walking into a random house, drinking the owners’ wine, and stealing their candlesticks. "Hello, peasants!" he yells as he walks in. Really great stuff.
"I got sick and tired of having a dozen little "bonus" cards to carry around, so I made this simple fix. Basically, I just scanned in all my barcodes, fit them nicely into a row in photoshop and then printed them out onto a card. There are more detailed instructions that follow if you need them. This page shows the finished product."
MAKE: Blog: Consolidate all those bonus cards (Barcodes)
Parsons, the 1973 Winston Cup champion, learned six months ago that he had cancer. He continued to work as a color analyst for NBC after learning about his condition, but missed a couple of races while undergoing treatment.
It’s official! Pontiac to get RWD platform, likely in G8 - Autoblog
Perhaps riding a contact high from all the heady presentations at the NAIAS, GM product Czar Bob Lutz let fly that the Holden Commodore SS will be coming to the US as a Pontiac. Lutz went on to say that the car will be known as the G8, and that GM is looking at an official amount of “a lot.” In this case, a lot adds up to about 30,000 per year, with reserve capacity in case they nail it with price and features, and demand is high.
