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REPORT: James May to build life-sized Lego house. But what's in the garage?

James May, a.k.a. Captain Slow on Top Gear, has a BBC show called James May's Toy Stories. After building an award-winning Plasticine garden and the world's largest model airplane, the next thing on May's list is a house built of Legos. A two-storey house. And he intends to live in it for a weekend. The house will be built in Dorking, England and everything that can be made out of Legos will be made out of Lego. Said May, "I've got a man working on a flushing Lego lavatory. We think it's possible." Seeing that Legoland doesn't even have a ... Read more →

Smart, or Stupid? Teenager cooks up Michael Jackson microcar tribute Jonathon Ramsey

Eric Callisto read the reactions from Michael Jackson fans and decided that the city-sponsored Los Angeles memorial service wasn't enough. So, like any web entrepreneur the Logansport, Indiana native ...

VIDEO: Obligatory Michael Jackson Post - Rare Suzuki Love commercials Jonathon Ramsey

Michael Jackson's memorial service is being held today in Los Angeles (apparently sponsored by local Land Rover dealers). For a reminder of who the man was pre-Thriller and where all of this got ...

Studios fighting for DeLorean biopic Jonathon Ramsey

It doesn't take a genius to figure out why Hollywood is working on a film about a car company going kaput. You might wonder, however, why three different factions are working on another movie about ...

eBay Find of the Day: Malcolm Bricklin's very own 1970 Meyers Manx SR Jonathon Ramsey

The Meyers Manx SR (for "Street Roadster") was the roadgoing version of Meyers' seminal, frog-eyed dune buggy. There were ten built at Meyers' factory in Fountain Valley, and the 1970-vintage ...

eBay Find of the Day is just in time for Easter 8 months ago on Autoblog

The Volo Classic Car Museum in Illinois has this pink treat from the movie Uncle Buck for sale. The Funny Bunny is a Volkswagen Bug that was turned into a mouse that, according to the Volo, has been turned into a bunny. Even though it's got a mouse nose, mouse whiskers, mouse eyes, and mouse ...

Q-Car: Autoblog drives James Bond's DBS from Quantum of Solace 9 months ago on Autoblog

Your English-manor-garden variety Aston Martin DBS has 510 horsepower and 420 lb-ft of torque. The 6.0-liter V12 that powers it will pull the coupe to 60 in 4.3 seconds. It costs $305,000, and it is a special car. But we drove one that was even more special. We drove one of the Aston Martins ...

Jeremy Clarkson's salary reportedly "slashed" by BBC 9 months ago on Autoblog

According to the UK's Daily Mail, Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson makes an estimated £2,000,000 per year (about $2.9M U.S.D.). According to the financial realities of a disintegrating global economy. If reports are correct, Clarkson stands to lose up to £500,000 (about $720,000 USD) because ...

Al Unser Jr., extortion victim? 11 months ago on Autoblog

According to a grand jury indictment, a New Mexico prostitution ring mastermind was trying to extort two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser, Jr. for $750,000 over a videotape. Bobby McMullin, the ringleader, allegedly had an unflattering video of Unser that he promised to release to the public if ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1983 Chevy Celebrity Eurosport Dragster 1 year ago on Autoblog

Ah, the Eurosport, Chevrolet's well-executed package for classing up the '80s A-Body front-drivers. Catch a Eurosport in your peripheral vision quickly, and it'd be easy to mistake it for a Volvo 7-series, or even an Audi 5000 (G). What we have here is a time capsule in two ways. First, the ...

Ear-chewing boxer's Bentley for sale in Britain 1 year ago on Autoblog

Falls from grace usually happen pretty quickly, especially in the age of the interwebs. Sometimes, though, they play out over years and years, as is the case with Mike Tyson -- whose fall from grace probably finished a few years ago, but the garage sales continue. Up next: his Bentley Continental ...

Your 15 minutes of fame await: Overhaulin' accepting apps 2 years ago on Autoblog

NOTE: DO NOT SENT REQUESTS TO GET ON OVERHAULIN' TO AUTOBLOG! We don't have anything to do with the show, so while we'd like to help you get your cars fixed up, we can't... Go to Chip Foose's website here http://www.chipfoose.com/OverhaulinApplication/ and fill out the application, and good luck to ...

Helio Castroneves on cast of Dancing with the Stars 2 years ago on Autoblog

Helio Castroneves will trade laps on the track for rounds on the dance floor, having joined the fifth season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Having won the Indy 500 twice, what other challenge was left? He'll be paired with Julianne Hough, the professional dancer who won the last season with ...

Clarkson's Escort Cosworth up for sale 2 years ago on Autoblog

This vehicle represents two pieces of history: it's an Escort Cosworth, which might as well have come out of a Harry Potter novel it was so wild; and this particular Cossie was owned by none other than Jeremy Clarkson. Yes, that Jeremy Clarkson. It was, in fact, one of his favorite cars. That's ...

eBay Find of the Day: Big Papi's Mercedes SL65 2 years ago on Autoblog

Forget about brokers -- when celebs need to unload cars, they head straight for My eBay. This particular Red Sox Red SL65 happens to be the property of Mr. Walk-Off Home Run David Ortiz, alias Big Papi, from the Boston Red Sox. He bought it for himself when the BoSox won the 2004 World Series ...

The TMZ of car blogs: Celebrity Car Parade 2 years ago on Autoblog

That would be Hayden Panettiere from "Heroes" and her Porsche Cayenne Did you know our parent company AOL also owns TMZ, the hottest celebrity gossip blog on the web? If Autoblog and TMZ were to mate and birth a baby blog, it would be Celebrity Car Parade, a very new site started by Autoblog reader ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1988 Chevy Celebrity Eurosport VR 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image above for gallery. Visit here for more. Yes, a Chevy Celebrity is today's eBay Find of the Day. You have to admit, though -- this is pretty cool. While it's listed as an '88 Eurosport VR sedan, it's technically an '87 clone. The seller owned a rare but (completely) worn-out 1987 VR, ...

VIDEO: Having fun with halved cars 2 years ago on Autoblog

If you've ever wondered if it were possible to saw a front-drive vehicle in half and still drive it, we have video proof that it's possible. Some young thrill-seekers managed to pump petrol through the powertrain half of an old Chevy Celebrity (at least we think it's a Celebrity), and even the dog ...






Autoblog Podcast #153: With Phil Berg

Phil Berg puts his reputation on the line and hangs with the podcast crew.

 
 

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