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24 Hours of LeMons: 1975 AMC Matador X Wins First Spec Land Yacht Trophy
Almost two years ago, regular Roadkill contributor Murilee Martin dreamed up Spec Land Yacht, a racing series that would require all competitors to drive enormous, underpowered American cars—ideally...
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Let’s Revisit Our Least Popular Stories of 2016 #BecauseRoadkill
It’s the end of the year here at Roadkill and, like every other site, we’re going to do a little of looking back on 2016. We won’t spend a whole lot of our time on it, but we’ll just give you a quick...
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Tonnage: 10 Gigantic Malaise-Era Land Yachts
Most of the 1970s and early 1980s are regarded as American automobiles’ “Lost Era.” Saddled by the sudden needs for improved fuel economy, lower emissions, and higher safety standards, American car...
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Weekend Junkyard Quiz (04/01): What Car Are We Looking At?
Maybe we made last week’s Junkyard Quiz too easy, but we thought you deserved an easy one. Most of you identified the Mercury Sable and Ford Taurus door “dimple” and if you clicked through, you could...
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Not April Fool’s Day: Who Loves An AMC 401 on 4/01?
April is a good month for engines, since many big-block V8s have displacements match the dates. What do we mean by that? Well, let’s start the month with this AMC 401 on 4/01. While it’s not a...
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Supercharged, Soviet-Carbureted AMC Pacer Dominates 24 Hours of Lemons Races
Not many 24 Hours of LeMons cars have won the top prize of LeMons racing twice, but the 1978 American Motors Corporation Pacer wagon of the Down & Out Race Team managed the feat at the recent...
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24 Hours of Lemons Colorado: The Winners
The 24 Hours of Lemons race series has been venturing out to the thin air, cacti, and drone-hunting permits of Kansas northeastern Colorado every year since 2010, and earlier this month we returned to...
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Failing To Win A Race Where Nobody Wins: The Gambler 500 Story
The crew from Speedfreak Speed Shop showed up at the airport in Medford, Oregon, with the Harpoonigan—a 1972 AMC Javelin plucked from the Northern California weeds and off-road prepped for the 2017...
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Beat Up On Local Muscle With This Dark And Stormy AMC Gremlin
Is the term “murdered out,” played out? Maybe this “Murder Gremlin,” is more of an homage to the Street Outlaws “Murder Nova”? Either way, “Murder Gremlin” is probably not on the list of keywords you...
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24 Hours of Lemons Houston: The Winners
The 24 Hours of Lemons traveling circus has been clattering into dang ol’ MSR Houston since way t’hell back in 2008, and neither hurricanes nor the miasma of a million oil refineries can stay your...
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