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Viva Brasilia! Carros Rebaixados! Demoted to a lower position, car culture in Brasil is vastly different than North American car culture. Imagine this: You live in a country where Money is a bit tight, but also, import laws are very tight as well. What do you do? You need something cheap, but it has to be locally built as well. You build your own!! Like the Gurgel Carajás pictured above, Brasil and South America had a wide variety of obscure and awesome cars. Form often was created...

Life is about having fun. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Xzq9vFqfo]

I'm sorry Mike. I had no idea you were going to look at the car! Yesterday was a long day. We started out rushing to Toronto to go see a 1983 Toyota Corolla. Upon arrival our Jaws dropped. Phil went in for the kill. The little car was mint, and Phil had to have it. It ran great, looked great and drove like it was new. Acquired. We then swung over to Pur Automotive to grab a customers Supra which was getting a nice light break in tune for...

oh look, it's Super Autobacs and a haunted house....? Turns out, it was just another pachinko palace, but with a twist! Hidden exit door! You just have to explain to the staff you have no money left and they quickly escort you out (not really the Japanese are much to polite.) Much of the selection inside Super Autobacs is similar to Up garage but a bit pricier as things are more often new than used....

So, if your doing something destructive, can you call it progress? The Zeeboo has made some changes as of recent. I think I'm the only person to ever put Bias Ply tires on an AWD corolla wagon.....but I could be wrong, there's plenty of these cars imported into the northern wastelands of Russia. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Gun Slinger"][/caption] The Zeeboo is an explosion of misguided energies. I'm very aware of it's misguidance, but sometimes you just need a release. This is the reason I have greasy...