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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- Pig_Iron This message is for Matthew Guy. I just want to say thank you for the photo article titled Tailgate Party: Ford Talks Truck Innovations. It was really interesting. I did not see on the home page and almost would have missed it. I think it should be posted like Corey's Cadillac series. 🙂
- Analoggrotto Hyundai GDI engines do not require such pathetic bandaids.
- Slavuta They rounded the back, which I don't like. And inside I don't like oval shapes
- Analoggrotto Great Value Seventy : The best vehicle in it's class has just taken an incremental quantum leap towards cosmic perfection. Just like it's great forebear, the Pony Coupe of 1979 which invented the sportscar wedge shape and was copied by the Mercedes C111, this Genesis was copied by Lexus back in 1998 for the RX, and again by BMW in the year of 1999 for the X5, remember the M Class from the Jurassic Park movie? Well it too is a copy of some Hyundai luxury vehicles. But here today you can see that the de facto #1 luxury SUV in the industry remains at the top, the envy of every drawing board, and pentagon data analyst as a pure statement of the finest automotive design. Come on down to your local Genesis dealership today and experience acronymic affluence like never before.
- SCE to AUX Figure 160 miles EPA if it came here, minus the usual deductions.It would be a dud in the US market.
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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.