A month or so ago we ran our first CAR NUT contest, and someone won so quickly it turned our heads around! Well, here we go with Contest #2 ... Simply tell us what this thing in the picture is and you'll get a free and very cool CAR NUT gift from our GARAGE-FULL of things we receive from car and product manufacturers for various reasons ... Just name it and it's yours! Now, how easy is that? And no jokes about it being the "all-new nuclear power plant for the 2015 mid-engined Corvette" which you just saw on the cover of POPULAR MECHANICS ... It isn't even car-related ... uh, necessarily ...
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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
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September 11, 2007
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Yes, we have a winner! And you should have seen some of the guesses we got ... CAR NUT reader John Luke didn't guess, he must read the NY TIMES (or have one of these contraptions at home), because that's where we found this photo and story. Here's the photo caption from the story: "Stuart S. P. Parkin, a physicist, is developing 'racetrack memory,' a technology that makes it possible to read and write data far faster than is possible with existing storage devices."
And here's a link to the story: "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/technology/11storage.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1189570302-vQSPd83jVJPJJnMcYf5SzQ"
Read it and enjoy! And check back here often for more CAR NUT CONTESTS!
Posted by: Steve Parker | September 11, 2007 at 09:14 PM
The "what is this thing?" is a shot of the lab where computer memory research is supposed to produce memory increases by a factor of 10 to 100.
Posted by: John Luke | September 11, 2007 at 04:52 PM