12 Golden Country Greats: The Murilee Martin Lifestyle Brand(TM)'s Greatest Hits of 2012
I wrote a lot of vaguely-car-related stuff in 2012, and here’s my chance to show off the stuff that made me proudest (or at least took the most work to create). Enjoy.
When I Build My Spaceship, It Will Be Equipped With This Cordia Instrument Cluster
1965 Impala Hell Project, Part 20: The End
Bored On a Long Road Trip? Bad Car Bingo!
When You See a Clean Corinthian Leather Bench Seat In the Junkyard, You Buy It!
Possibly the Greatest Badge Engineering Feat In History: Isuzu Statesman Deville!
Junkyard Jackpot: The Missing Pieces For the A100 Hell Project Puzzle
Automotive Lawsuit History Unearthed, Junkyard Style: The Ford Park-To-Reverse Warning Label
How Honda Survived the Vigor, the Del Sol, and the Lawsuits: Super Cub!
Time Machine Dilemma: It’s 1973 and You Have Enough Cash For a New LTD. What Do You Buy?
My Introduction To Panther Love: Inaugural Police Interceptor Road Trip!
Corvairs, Kaisers, and Cadillacs: Brain-Melting Colorado Junkyard Is a Mile High… and a Mile Wide
Kill Switch Thwarts Denver Civic Thieves Once Again, Junkyard Parts To the Rescue
What’s It Really Like To Obliterate a Press Car?
Hooptie Harley Adventures: Hell Project Shovelhead Hauls LeMons Judge To Road America In Style
Real-World Review: Fleeing Hurricane Sandy Across 8 States In a Rented 2012 Kia Sorento
Auction To Crusher: 12 Weeks In the Lives of Two Cars At a Self-Service Wrecking Yard
Then there’s my own site, where you’ll find lots of old and new stuff from the Murilee Martin Lifestyle Brand. What’s in store for 2012? That’s like asking how long Hindustan Motors can keep building the Ambassador!
Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.
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- FreedMike Civic for the win based on looks. But continuing with the "but...Mazda" theme, I take a 3 over either of these.
- Buickman HI-LOW?
- Redapple2 175,000 miles? Wow. Another topic, Hot chicks drive Cabos at higher % than most other cars. I always look.
- Mister When the news came out, I started checking Autotrader and cars.com for stickshift Versas. There are already a handful showing at $15.3k. When anybody talks about buying a new Versa, folks always say that you're better off buying a nicer used car for the same money. But these days, $15.3k doesn't buy very many "nicer used cars".
- 28-Cars-Later A little pricy given mileage but probably not a horrible proposition for a Sunday car. The old saying is you're not buying a pre-owned car you're buying the previous owner, and this one has it hooked up to a float charger (the fact he even knows what one is, is a very good sign IMO). Leather and interior look decent, not sure which motor this runs but its probably common (for VAG at least). Body and paint look clean, manual trans, I see the appeal."but I think that's just a wire, not a cracked body panel." Tim, its a float charger. I am doing the exact same thing with the charger hanging via a magnetic hook on the HVAC overhead in my garage.
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I'll be around looking for more entertaining pieces from you this year too!
Your Junkyard finds this year mentioned the Book "On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors" after searching many used book stores for this out of print title I found a copy and read it. It still seems relevant 40 years later. Thank you for passing on your depths of automotive knowledge.