Bookmark It: Mike Bumbeck launches Clunkbucket.com
Update your bookmarks, kids. Mike Bumbeck, erstwhile Jalop and all-around junkyard Ph.D., is back on the web with a brand new site: Clunkbucket. The focus is on the affordable, attainable, and interesting, with content that's both tasty and useful. Want to remove your door panel without damaging it? Mike's got your back, with photos to help you along. Maybe you need a vintage shop manual. Look no further for tips on how and where to find one. The "Odd Rod" category lives up to its name (dig that Toronado), and expect to see the Starion assume an important and recurring role. Mike's got another of his fellow ex-Jalops, Jonny Lieberman, contributing as well.
Things look like they're off to a solid start, so make sure you add Clunkbucket as a daily stop during your online automotive travels. If you're only hearing about Bumbeck's new project for the first time today, make sure you follow Autoblog on Twitter. If you had been, you would have already learned about Clunkbucket way back on Friday morning.
Good luck, Mike. We think Clunkbucket has... SUPER POTENTIAL!
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asdffdsa 10:43AM (3/22/2009)
looks like at least some of the material is just recycled....
http://www.automedia.com/Door_Panel_Removal/ccr20071201dp/1
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Avinash machado 10:59AM (3/22/2009)
Cool. I love these off beat sites and most of these old cars have far more character than modern cars that feel like appliances.
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Alex Nunez 11:09AM (3/22/2009)
That 11-second Gremlin X is a thing of beauty.
Avinash machado 11:17AM (3/22/2009)
You are right,Alex. I just checked it out.
Rob 12:19PM (3/22/2009)
Me too, but this site seems like a ripoff of carlustblog.com. We cover all sorts of strange, different, unique automobiles, with an almost irrational love of the underdogs, the abandoned, and the ridiculed.
www.carlustblog.com
Alex Nunez 12:40PM (3/22/2009)
Rob,
I'm a regular reader of Car Lust, which I happen to love and recommend to anyone who'll listen. But seeing as how Mike's been at this for a good while, dating all the way back to the salad days of Jalopnik, that "ripoff" jibe is both uncalled for and inaccurate.
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Rob 1:29PM (3/22/2009)
Sorry, I didn't mean ripoff, I meant very very similar. Carlust tends to focus on the obscure, forgotten, and unloved; in a way, they are the opposite of brand new shiny everything that is Autoblog.
Sam 3:17PM (3/22/2009)
Maybe that was harsh...but i'm sure i've read most of those articles on different sites over the past year...
Spence 5:09PM (3/22/2009)
Rob, sorry to say your grandstanding is an insult to anyone who wrote for or followed Jalopnik circa 2006. Carlust is just a humorless, tone-deaf ripoff of that great site as it was and sometimes still is.
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