Bucks Blog: A Car Towing Tale of Woe

Chang W. Lee/The New York Times A car being towed in New York City.5/17/13 | Updated with comment from towing company’s lawyer.When we were looking for a home in a new city a few years ago, my family took a welcome break from house hunting to eat dinner.We emerged from the restaurant just in time to see our car speed by — on the back of a tow truck. Apparently, we had mistakenly...

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Wheels Blog: The Flamboyant Cars of Liberace

Marty Lederhandler/Associated Press Liberace with a 1956 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I, which he used in a Radio City Music Hall show in 1985.“Behind the Candelabra,” the new HBO movie about Liberace, has a scene in which he drives up to his Hollywood home (it’s actually Zsa Zsa Gabor’s home, but that’s another story.) in a Mercedes-Benz 450SL, and arrayed around the driveway...

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Wheels Blog: Taking a Spin Around a Dirt Track in a Pro Lite Unlimited Racing Truck

Mike Caudill/Driven PR This Pro Lite Unlimited race truck is powered by a 347-cubic-inch Ford V-8.LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. – Casey Currie drummed in one message last Friday during our laps around the track at Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park: “Slow! Slow down! Slow into the turn!” Currie, 29, who has motorcycles and Baja 1000 trucks, had good reason to worry.After he had first...

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