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Remember when you were a kid and had to ask your dad to move the car out of the driveway so you could shoot some hoops? Well now that you're old enough to drive, you can relive the experience, only when you pull out the car from the driveway this time, you can keep going.

This basketball net clamps onto any standard trailer hitch for a game of b-ball in any empty parking lot you come across. The system includes a four-piece telescoping pole, fully adjustable to any height you like up to regulation 10'. It features a full-sized 44" backboard that adjusts in angle so you don't have to worry if you've parked on uneven ground. The rim is solid steel and the net's made from nylon. You can attach it to a 2" trailer hitch, or to a 1 ¼" hitch with an adapter, and can even drive with it collapsed and hooked on to your truck until you reach your game site.

Just take it easy on those hail-Mary free-throws at the buzzer or you'll be visiting the body shop more than you'd like.

[Source: Portable B Ball via Born Rich]

The accountants over at Ford have cleaned off their desks looking for every available financial number between 2001 and 2005 and discovered the company had actually made more money than it originally reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In fact, the $5.8 billion net loss the Blue Oval recorded for the third quarter of 2006 has been reduced by $550 million to $5.25 billion. For the first three quarters of 2006, the company found an additional $250 million that reduces its year-to-date loss to an even $7 billion. The accounting adjustments come mainly from Ford's finance division and has something to do with derivatives and volatile interest rates. Whatever. Money's money and Ford will take it, even if it's money from the past that has already spent by now. Analysts aren't too impressed by the on-paper improvement either, noting that the corrections don't change the fact that Ford's pre-Way Forward turn around plan announced in 2002 didn't work. Ford will be filing new paperwork with the SEC by November 20th that finally brings its financial reportings in line with SEC requirements.

[Source: Automotive News]