Murilee Martins Junkyard Finds.

[RoadworkUK]

I'm putting this thread up as there's the slimmest possibility that two or three members of this parish may not have heard of the notable American gentleman Phil "Murilee" Martin.

 

He was formerly a contributor to Jalopnik.com, a US-centric auto news-blog that I became a massive fan of, right until it got consumed by greed and turned into a attention-seeking black-hole of ego and conceit.

 

Anyway. Born of the ensuing chaos was Hooniverse.com, a rather more gentlemanly site put together by a group of former Jalopnik commenters, and which has gone from strength to strength with a notable shite vein running through it. Mr Martin has posted the occasional feature (as have, ahem, I) but these days he concentrates his efforts on the site that snaffled him away from Jalopnik, TheTruthAboutCars. (dotcom).

 

And it's him, on there, that I wish to draw your attention to. You seem, most weekends he finds himself patrolling the scrapyards of his native Colorado taking snaps of whatever fine scruttle he chances upon, and to say the very least, the pickings are somewhat richer than the pile o' primeras you're likely to expect over here.

 

Stuff like this:-

 

 

This...

 

 

And this:

 

 

These and many more incredible shite-themed musings if you click over to http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/author/murilee-martin/

 

As an aside, reading through his posts and looking at the sheer rarity of some of the cars featured (over here as opposed to over there), like the Mercury Comet and various never-seen-here American barges, it's amazing to witness the state of their classic-car restoration-project scene. It appears that, due to there being so much choice, anything that doesn't quite make the grade is sent to the fragger. Just look at that Fiat Spider for a great example.

 

Happy reading.

[Shep Shepherd]

Murilee Martin's contributions were the only good reason for reading Jalopnik, IMHO. When he stopped contributing to the site, I stopped reading it.

[Station]

I looked at Jalopnik for the first time in months the other day and it looks like a basic regular casual motoring site now - it looks like it's changed, nothing stood out as interesting.

[RoadworkUK]

Murilee Martin's contributions were the only good reason for reading Jalopnik, IMHO. When he stopped contributing to the site, I stopped reading it.

 

Some of the other contributors had a few intereting things to say, but the vast majority lived deep within "me too" territory. Difficult to tell them apart.

[AnthonyG]

Yes, I have read them - Curbside Classic was better though, this incredible town in Oregon where people still drove all sorts of Yankshite daily - rust just didn't exist there. It now exists on a website of its own.

 

http://www.curbsideclassic.com/

 

The truth about cars.com is pretty shit though - used to be pure Toyota fanboys, now they think everything Hyundai do is sent straight from heaven.

 

Americans are like the British were in the 1970s/1980s - nothing their own industry could do was any good. Well we sorted that out by not having one anymore.

 

The Toyota/Hyundai loving Yanks will reap what they sow soon enough.