Steve Parker Motoring / The Car Nut: BUSH APPEARING NOW IN "SORCERER'S APPRENTICE"

EXCLUSIVE PHOTO ALBUM! 2009 GUMBALL RALLY 3000

See Steve's exclusive Gumball Rally video from NBC-TV's Whipnotic website (copy and paste): http://www.whipnotic.com/videos/viewvideo-558.html Over 120 gas-guzzling super-exotic sports cars, Hummers, Cadillac Escalade SUVs and an occasional interesting older car roared on May 2, 2009, from a California beach-side parking lot directly onto I-10, the Santa Monica Freeway, also known as the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway, for the start of this year's Gumball Rally. The world's most politically-incorrect automotive street event, the Gumball Rally 3000, left Santa Monica (CA) Pier on Saturday, May 2, 2009 and headed toward its ultimate destination of Miami, FL eight days later. Participants reportedly paid $44,000 per car/team to enter the event. Though the Gumball stresses the skills of its drivers (and their cars) there are only two race track "special section" stops scheduled for the 3,000-mile long event, which will be run on public roads with all entrants subject to all highway rules and regulations. All photos (c) 2009 by www.SteveParker.com

January 18, 2007

BUSH APPEARING NOW IN "SORCERER'S APPRENTICE"

Scroll down to see the Mark Fields Ford corporate jet story, but hey, we had this funny photo of George W., so why not run it? The big shots have these economic summits in Southeast Asia every year (the group is called ASEAN; pretty neat how they always work out those titles, huh?) and apparently force the visiting leaders to wear silly-looking local outfits, the sillier (to us in the west) the better. This shot is from a summit in Vietnam in 2006, scene of another American military disaster engineered by politicians. W should have felt right at home. That's Vladimir ("I looked in his eyes and he's a good man") Putin in the middle and on the left, the current incumbent military dictator of China. And boy, do these guys get along, or what? Our only complaint --- How come the other guys look so good in their outfits, while W's bullet-proof (we guess) vest sticks out all over the place? Can't W's staff of valets and tailors do a better job of hiding those unsightly bulges? (Be sure to click on the photo to see the large version).