Yearly Archives: 2012

No, you didn’t win this. No, you can’t have it. No.

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DEAR,

MY NAME IS GENERAL MARTINS TANJUL. I AM THE DEPOSED MAGNATE OF PETROCO IN LAGOS, NIGERIA, AND I NEED YOUR HELP IN MOVING THE AMOUNT OF $US 205 MILLION IN CASH OUT OF MY STORAGE VAULT TO YOUR COUNTRY…

So goes about every scam letter from the Lads from Lagos, often accompanied by pictures like the one above. For some strange reason, people continue falling for these mind-bendingly absurd emails; if they didn’t, the boys would give up their trade and find some other way to separate suckers from their money.

The photo above actually does represent about $205,000,000 and was seized as part of the biggest cash-drug bust in history, somewhere in Mexico City.

Yeah. So if you weren’t sure, it’s a scam. It’s always a scam. Any email from anyone you don’t know, where the subject is money, is a scam.

Be careful out there.

The Old Wolf has spoken.

1980 Citroën Karin (Model)

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The Citroën was once awarded the title of the world’s ugliest car. But their engineers had high aspirations.

“Having no new models to reveal at the 1980 Paris Salon, Citroën stylist Trevor Fiore was given the go ahead to build a model (not a driveable car) for display. The result was the trapezoidal Karin, clearly inspired by Michel Harmand’s design for a GS Coupé. A three seater with the driver being seated centrally and ahead of the two passengers, this layout pre-empted that of the McLaren F1 of 1992.”1

Yeah. I’d drive one, if it existed.

1Found at Citroenet.

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The Davis Three-Wheeler

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Some history about the Davis Sedan for your gratuitous enjoyment. To me it looks like a glorified sidecar.

Of course, it could be worse.

It could be a Messerschmitt,

or an Isetta!

I don’t think any of these cars would have done well in a collision with a Duesenberg.

These beautiful vehicles, by the way, were so coveted and admired that they lent their name to the once-common expression, “That’s a doozy!”

The Old Wolf has spoken.

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Kinshasa, DRC: A Photo Collection

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This gallery contains 29 photos.

Four times during my career between 1999 and 2000 I had the opportunity to travel to Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It’s the only place in the word that I truly experienced culture shock, even with multiple trips to places like Albania, Serbia, Egypt, Jordan, and other locations considered wild and […]