GM warns Corvette drivers new valet mode may be illegal.

Earlier this summer, General Motors (GM) came out with a new “valet mode” for its latest Corvette sports cars. Call it a nanny cam for your car or the Ferris Bueller provision (remember this scene?) GM called it “a baby monitor for your baby.” Essentially, the technology allows you to record video, audio and driving data from the car when you’re not using it. Sounds great, right? With base prices starting at about $55,000, it’s no wonder GM is trying to help you protect your investment (after all, who wouldn't want to take this so-called supercar for a joyride?) But there’s one thing the company may not have considered… the law. Recording laws (which would apply to any conversation recorded by the valet monitor) MORE:

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Restoration of a rare Ruxton

By Justin Hyde:

Say you buy an old car. Not just any old car; one that's over 80 years old, with boxes of spare and broken parts and a good decade of neglect, that's so rare even most car enthusiasts have never heard of it. And let's say you have a little less than a year to take that car from its decrepit state and transform it into not just a running machine, but an almost better-than-new version of its former self — with no manuals or reference materials to fall back on.

Could you do it? Would you even try?

The car you see is a 1932 Ruxton sedan, a piece of forgotten automotive history that was the forebear of most cars on American highways today. Of the 90-odd Ruxtons built, only 19 are known to still exist. The one above was the last one ever sold, and without the interventions of two car aficionados, there might only be 18. MORE:

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2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat

When it comes to superlatives, particularly with performance cars, they are usually used in conjunction with luxury brands like Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Bentley, Ferrari, and of course, Bugatti. Now along comes scrappy Dodge, first with its 707-hp Challenger SRT Hellcat coupe, the most powerful muscle car on earth, and now with the brutish Charger SRT Hellcat, nothing less than the quickest, fastest, and most powerful production sedan on earth. Apparently, bragging rights are contagious. MORE:

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1964 Ford Thunderbolt

The 1960s occurred in a vastly different world than the one we live in today. As proof of this, we draw your attention to one of the most insanely powerful road machines ever built: the Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt. Like a Tyrannosaurus Rex or a B-29 bomber, it’s a symbol of a bygone era, one less secure but a helluva lot more exciting than the carefully sanitized, politically correct society we live in today. To be fair, the Thunderbolt wasn’t built on Ford’s assembly lines, but at the private shop of Andy Hotting with Dearborn Steel Tubing. It combined a relatively lightweight Fairlane frame with a 425 ci (7.0-liter) engine and dual four-barrel Holley carbs. To even fit the massive engine into a Fairlane required radical reconstruction of the front suspension. 100 Thunderbolts were built, 49 with a four-speed gearbox and 51 with an automatic. On top of that, the builders slashed weight in every way possible, like adding fiberglass doors, fenders, and front bumper. They also eliminated such unnecessary parts as the sun visor, the heater, one of the windshield wipers, arm rests, mirrors, window cranks, and the spare tire. The carpeting was replaced with a rubber mat and the front seats with lightweight versions from Ford police package vehicles. The high beams were pulled as well, replaced with special air intakes. The Thunderbolt was 700 lbs. lighter and three inches shorter than the Galaxie, the actual vehicle the 427 was designed for.

The Thunderbolt’s list of racing add-ons included tubular headers, custom rear suspension, and special tires and wheels from both Mickey Thompson and Goodyear. The Thunderbolt was rated at 425 hp, but in reality it topped out at over 600 horses. It ran 11.61 seconds in a test drive at the Lions Drag Strip in November of ’63 at 124.8 mph. Amazingly, despite these facts the Thunderbolt was (barely) street legal, though no one ever used it for the daily office commute. This was a creature built for one purpose: to go insanely fast on a race track. It did what it was meant to do, winning the NHRA Super Stock title for Ford in 1964.

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The ISEE-3 Reboot Project

About The ISEE-3 Reboot Project: By Keith Cowing on May 21, 2014 4:24 PM Our plan is simple: we intend to contact the ISEE-3 (International Sun-Earth Explorer) spacecraft, command it to fire its engines and enter an orbit near Earth, and then resume its original mission - a mission it began in 1978. ISEE-3 was rechristened as the International Comet Explorer (ICE). If we are successful it may also still be able to chase yet another comet. Working in collaboration with NASA we have assembled a team of engineers, programmers, and scientists - and have a large radio telescope fully capable of contacting ISEE-3. If we are successful we intend to facilitate the sharing and interpretation of all of the new data ISEE-3 sends back via crowd sourcing. NASA has told us officially that there is no funding available to support an ISEE-3 effort - nor is this work a formal priority for the agency right now. But NASA does feel that the data that ISEE-3 could generate would have real value and that a crowd funded effort such as ours has real value as an education and public outreach activity. Time is short. And this project is not without significant risks. We need your financial help. ISEE-3 must be contacted in the next month or so and it must complete its orbit change maneuvers no later than mid-June 2014. There is excitement ahead as well: part of the maneuvers will include a flyby of the Moon at an altitude of less than 50 km. Our team members at Morehead State University, working with AMSAT-DL in Germany, have already detected the carrier signals from both of ISEE-3's transmitters. When the time comes, we will be using the large dish at Morehead State University to contact the spacecraft and give it commands. Continue reading About The ISEE-3 Reboot Project. Personalized t-shirts.