Archive for the ‘Driving’ Category

We cover a lot of stuff here at TCC. Most is directly related to the auto industry, some other items are just for fun, and every so often, we stumble across something really special. Case in point: the story of Roy Locock, a 52-year-old Brit who bought a 1977 MG Midget a couple of years back, and it changed his life.

Shortly after purchasing the Midget -- coincidentally, named Bridget -- Roy took her on a brief tour of the Continent. He had so much fun that he decided to restore the car and take it for a slightly longer spin. Roy's original plan was to drive from Abingdon in the UK (home of the first MG factory) all the way to Nanjing,...

We don't mean to alarm anyone, but we have it on good authority that there's a giant monkey zipping around Phoenix in a Subaru Outback. The police have taken dozens of radar photos of this chump breaking speed limits, and they've ticketed the car's owner, Dave Vontesmar, but as anyone can plainly see from looking at the pics, that's a giant monkey behind the wheel, not some dude in a mask. Accordingly, Vontesmar has sent all 37 speeding tickets back to the city, claiming he's innocent. We hope somebody apprehends that mad macaque before he goes totally bananas. (P.S. Sorry, it's Thursday.) [PhoenixNewTimes]

Proving once again that juvenile governmental feuds aren't solely the province of the New York state legislature or the South Korean parliament, the mayors of two Parisian suburbs have installed contradictory street signage just make a point -- and to make drivers furious.

In a nutshell: the conservative mayor of Levallois-Perret was tired of traffic clogging up his boulevards, so he converted one of the area's primary thoroughfares into a one-way street, with traffic pointed directly into the adjacent neighborhood of Clichy-la-Garenne. This didn't sit well with the mayor of Clichy-la-Garenne, who is, as it turns out, a socialist; he...