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The Tea Party Pace Car

The Tea Party Pace Car leads the field in the race to restore Essential Liberty as enshrined in our nation’s founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.

The TPPC is among the last of the Dodge Vipers in production, a very rare color combination chosen to promote the Gadsden Flag. The Gadsden was the banner of the Sons of Liberty at the dawn of the American Revolution, and the first flag adopted by the United States Marine Corps in 1775 at the recommendation of Continental Colonel Christopher Gadsden. It was revived in recent years as the banner of the Tea Party movement to restore American Liberty.

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Rachel and Chariot: Romancing the Road

This is an unusual love story involving an 89-year-old gun-totin’, flag-wavin’, car-drivin’ woman and her beloved Chariot. The two have been together for decades and traveled more than 540,000 miles across this nation’s highways and side streets.

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Ford Does Not Need a Government Bail Out


Screw General Motors and Chrysler, if you need a new car, go out and buy a Ford.

Ford does not need U.S. government loans: CEO

Ford Motor Co has enough liquidity to fund its restructuring plan and despite the deep downturn in auto sales still sees no need to ask for government loans, Chief Executive Alan Mulally said on Saturday.

“We don’t want to borrow any more money. We have sufficient liquidity to fund our transformation plan, which means our business is in a relatively good shape,” Mulally told reporters on the sidelines of the National Automobile Dealers Association convention.

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German Parking Garage‏ Email is an Urban Legend

The email below that has been circulating is actually an Urban Legend. The Images actually depict a 20-storey “car tower” in Volkswagen’s Autostadt theme park in Wolfburg, Germany. Car buyers collect their chosen vehicles at the base of the tower via a robotic elevator.



Subject: German Parking Garage

This is incredible! Can you imagine how all this operates? How do they lock each car in its cubicle for safety.

WHO CARES. NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND COULD GET IN THERE.

Talk about German efficiency! The two photos below were taken at a new parking garage in Munich. The actual space that the facility occupies is approximately only 20% of a comparable facility with the traditional design that is used primarily in the US.


Not only is the German structure less expensive to build, but vehicles are also “retrieved” in less time and without the potential of being damaged by an attendant.

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