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Detroit Is Not Fucked

July 20, 2013 – 6:46 pm

The GTO was the ultimate Detroit muscle-car. GM had banned sponsored racing, so John deLorean focused on a V8 street monster with a 389 cubic inch displacement to compete with Ford’s Mustang. GM’s production leader saw ‘the Goat’ as a loss and never allowed more than 5000 manufactured per year. Narrow-minded decision such as this […]

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Gimme Shelter by Grand Funk Railroad

April 13, 2012 – 9:22 am

having a grand funk morning. the best garage band from flint of all time.

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Motor City Burning – MC5

June 1, 2009 – 6:46 am

The MC5 covered Joe Lee Hooker’s MOTOR CITY BURNING in 1969. “Motor City burning and nothing you can do.” See this URL

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Iggy 60

April 29, 2007 – 11:08 am

Unbelievably Iggy aka Jim Osterberg attained 60. The rock icon celebrated his entry into senior citizenship by diving off the stage at some stupid venue in America. What’s amazing is that all the news agencies are covering this event with the same bio, as if they were disappointed he hadn’t topped himself, but Iggy was stronger […]

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