A Brentwood woman was charged with drunken driving after she crashed her car in East Islip early Saturday morning while rushing a gunshot victim to the hospital, Suffolk County police said.
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Forum: Off TopicPosted By: CF-MikePost Time: 11-25-2011 at 10:06 PM
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Thanksgiving is best known for spending time with loved ones, watching football, and stuffing your face with enough tryptophan-filled turkey to knock out a small army. After you awake from your food coma and time expires in the final game of the night, you’ll have to pick yourself up off the couch and pile yourself [...]
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Hot Rod Power Tour Engine Bays - Dressed To KillUnderhood BeautySpeed and styleâthe cornerstones of a lifestyle that drives every hot rodder to turn a wrench on his car. Whether we are rockinâ a junkyard 305 or a tunnel-port 427, we have to accessorize and modify for more power and attention. Nailing the right look and sound while maintaining reliability isnât easy, especially in a car that
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Every Car From 2011 HOT ROD Drag WeekExclusive photo gallery of every car from every class that competed in the 2011 HOT ROD Drag Week.2011 HOT ROD Drag Week presented by Gear Vendors was a huge success with record 162 drivers entered. We literally take thousands of photos at the event but we can't fit all of them in the magazine so we are posting shots of every competitor's car right here. We've
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1955 Chevrolet Bel Air - Super FreakOne Manâs Righteous Attempt To Relive the Glory Days of Psychedelic Paint, Ear-Splitting Exhaust Notes, and Sky-High Hot RodsTony Vestuto resembles a movie character who mobs around town in a tow truck Monday through Friday and does angry, block-long burnouts in a hopped-up hot rod on weekends. He is that guy. Heâs an imposing figure who doesnât need to g
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Forum: Off TopicPosted By: CF-MikePost Time: 11-18-2011 at 10:05 PM
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Volkswagen is pressuring American lawmakers to change the Obama administration’s proposed fuel efficiency increases that will force manufacturers to double their current mileage standards by 2025. Possibly the largest automaker to reject the new regulations, Volkswagen believes that the 54.5 mpg industry target is unfair to the clean diesels that it aggressively touts. Conversely, it’s [...]
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Technical Questions and Answers - Pit StopIs a radiator with a built-in transmission cooler more efficient than a universal radiator with an add-on transmission cooler?Send Stuff In: Email: PITSTOP@hotrod.com Mail: Hot Rod, 831 S. Douglas St., El Segundo, CA 90245 Photo Requirements: Minimum size 1,600 x 1,200 pixels Message Board: hotrod.com Photo Gallery: Technical Questions and Answers - Hot R
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Vintage Speed Stickers - Get the Picture?Itâs novel, but itâs so much cooler when you can find an old hunk of hardware thatâs clearly running its original, ancient, and weathered tattoos that trace its history.It seems like cheating that so many reproduction decals are available today. Lions, OCIR, Bonnevilleâif it became historic, you can probably buy a brand-new sticker to slap on your
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HOT ROD's 2011 LA Auto Show CoverageHOT ROD roamed the floors of the 2011 LA Auto Show to catch some of the cool new rides from Ford, Chevy, and Chrysler along with some new performance manufacturers.There are nice things about living in Los Angeles that out weigh the smog and traffic, like being close to the LA Convention Center when the LA Auto Show rolls in to town. Most of the cars introduced
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1927 Ford Model T Coupe - Gold BrickDennis Strayer's period-perfect T coupe.Thereâs an unfortunate irony in the fact that the cover car for our âBuilt, Not Boughtâ issue was, um, bought. However, current owner Dennis Strayer in Michigan picked it up from Bob âBleedâ Merktâthen in Wisconsin, now in Austin, Texasâwho did pound together this rod from scratch. Thereâs really no other
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Lennie Pond is a former NASCAR race driver. He was born on the 11th of August 1940 in the small town of Ettrick in Chesterfield County, Virginia. He started his seventeen year NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career in 1969 when he made his debut in the American 500 at Rockingham Speedway on the 26th of [...]
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NewsKotoko Striker Acheampong Escapes Car Accident The 22-year-old was being driven home by a friend after training in a Toyota Echo vehicle which later veered of the road and crashed into the side barricades. The vehicle is destroyed beyond repairs but the duo did not suffer any visible injuries. ... read morePhotos
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Long Island taxpayers will pay an estimated $2.9 billion over the next two years into the state's public pension systems, a 69 percent increase over the previous two-year period.
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