you came all this way, I’d hate for you to leave without the car”.

Made it just fine, I drove it to work today. 

Ireland ≠ UK 

Yes, this van was clearly designed with Formula 1 technology. Ask Richard Hammond.

Counterpoint: Mid-Engined.

Though it doesn’t seem to be widely in the news, the picture of where he ultimately got pulled over just makes the whole story.

Torch, if you want a really weird history try to search about brazilian IBAP Democrata. It´s a mix of a Mustang, a Corvair (rear engined) and Tucker (the business model and failure). If you can read this text in portuguese, it´s very complete: http://www1.uol.com.br/bestcars/classicos/democrata-1.htm

I guess the trick is to be there unknowingly and act all surprised and shocked at what you’ve just stumbled upon!

I bet the odds are pretty high that all the fluids have been drained from these, if they even have engines or any running gear, which they probably don't. 

Are we going to ignore the very first comment on the post?

the abandonment of little germany goes farther back actually, to the sinking of a ferry with a thousand people onboard

Let me go with “Headlines that work on Jalopnik and Pornhub equally-well for $800, Alex”

I shared a dorm room with a “railfan” my Sophomore year of college. That kid was weird as hell. He would literally sit at his desk and watch dvds of trains rolling through intersections. He would listen to realtime train communications broadcasts. Our college had a Model Railroad club and even those people thought he…

Fun fact:  UP 844, which is mentioned in the article, is the only steam locomotive in North America that was never officially retired from service - it was simply moved from UP’s regular fleet to their heritage fleet.

The Big Boy is a nice project a lot of people will recognize along with 844 and 3985. I wonder if they’d consider the only surviving 9000 engine. Those were some quirky turkeys.

This is real coal rolling, bitches.

I had to. OK, I didn’t have to, but I will anyway.

more trainlopnik please

I have so many cops stories that will make you go WTF!? Like the time I called to report my girlfriend’s car stolen and one of the cops taking my report accused me of having it stolen myself (like for insurance fraud or something? on a 15 year old beater?) The worse part is I’m not special. You’d be hard pressed to…

A cop? Try many cops.