Big repair bills for a blown engine or worn-out transmission are often what finally kill an old car, says J.
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The two main batteries are from a child's ride-on toy, and its PA speakers are made from an old car stereo.
"I've had people cry on me, " he says, when he's delivered the news that saving an old car will cost more than it's worth.
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Wages were not high but with "contacts" and an extended family around you, you could get most things - his brother-in-law had saved up for an old car, and at weekends they all crammed in for picnics in the country.
At one forecourt where some fuel had recently been stolen, an old police car had been parked.
Instead of buying a new gas-guzzling vehicle, convert an old diesel car to run on either biodiesel or vegetable oil.
Some ideas are simple (a rusty colander becoming a hanging garden planter), while others are downright feats (how to convert an old diesel car to run on vegetable oil).
She did business out of a pool house, drove an old clunker car, did the work of an entire team of people, and yet she made her business sound larger than life online.
Buy an old-fashioned car, and ask your congressman to repeal the hybrid credit.
After weeks of rest he was able to start physical rehabilitation, before finally driving an old Ferrari F1 car in a private test.
An old family estate car that trundles along without much pace and ends up stuck in the slow lane for race after race.
Traffic cones, road signs, bottles, shoes and an old black and white car registration plate were among the rubbish found in a clean-up of Windermere in the Lake District.
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The average American is driving an 11-year-old car, so your shopping list is probably different from the last time you shopped for a sedan.
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He lightly stroked the hood, then stroked it again, as if it were not a car but an old horse, tied to a fence and given a friendly pat to indicate that the wait would not be long.
Left unsaid: Can the 49-year-old soccer mom motivate a worldwide staff of 36, 000 designers and engineers in an old-boy industry where only "car guys"--like the colorful, cigar-chomping Bob Lutz--are considered worthy of leading vehicle development?
Janice Yvette Jackson. (Applause.) After Janice Jackson was struck by an oncoming car when she was 24 years old, doctors told her she would never be able to move her limbs again.
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In Poughkeepsie, New York, an 18-year-old woman lost control of her car in the falling snow and struck a 74-year-old man walking near the side of the road, police said.
While everyone and their mother (this author's parents included) have bought one of those hot new environmentally-conscious cars like a Prius, there's an old-new game in town: the purely electric car.
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To keep the car from running away, Fyodorov stuck an old abandoned crosstie, which happened to be lying beside the track, beneath one pair of wheels and started to unhook the coupling and free the locomotive.
In another, a mother and her sixteen-year-old daughter were in an accident that sent them and their car through a guardrail, over a cliff, and into a mountain river.
All eyes were on Toro Rosso rookie Jaime Alguersuari at the start of Friday's first practice session as the 19-year-old debutant put in his first tentative laps in an F1 car.
There's a classic neon McDonald's sign, a scale model of an old Texaco service station where kids can play at fixing a car and a mock-up of an early Holiday Inn, complete with cheesy laminated coffee tables.
Currently no price or release date has been set for this handy adapter, which is a shame, because we're just itching to break out an old 1.7MHz cordless handset and add fluroscent light and passing car interference to the already sketchy sound quality we've come to know and love from VoIP.
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An 89-year-old woman has been banned from driving after her car mounted the pavement during a driver improvement course.
The IPCC report heard the 18-year-old's car was suspected to have been involved in an earlier forecourt petrol theft from a BP station in St Leonards.
Just before our line began to move, a lady parked her car and walked past us and towards the repair counter with an old Windows laptop under her arm.
After spending a recent weekend tooling around suburban Detroit in a hydrogen fuel-cell-powered Honda Motor FCX , I was struck by a remarkable image: By the time my 9-year-old daughter is shopping for her first car, she may well be considering an entirely different kind of automobile--one that runs on hydrogen, not gasoline.
In southern Ontario, an 80-year-old woman collapsed while shoveling her driveway and two men were killed in car crashes.
Converting an existing car instead of buying a new one is good for the planet, and the old beater will have a new lease on life.
And a 30-year-old man was seriously injured in an accident on an icy M18 near Doncaster, when his car collided with a road sign and overturned.
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