Escondido's Cruisin' Grand rounds out 27-week run (North County Times)

Escondido's Cruisin' Grand rounds out 27-week run (North County Times)
ESCONDIDO ---- Thousands of people took a trip back to the 1950s on Friday night as muscle cars and hot rods and other classic vehicles roared past them on Grand Avenue for the Cruisin' Grand Finale.

Utah's desert radioactive waste dump grows bigger and bigger (Salt Lake Tribune)
CLIVE - Envirocare of Utah is bursting at the seams. Long lines of rail cars cool their wheels at rail yards in Ogden and Wendover. More cars from big government cleanups at Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Rocky Flats, Colo.; and Fernald, Ohio, rest on the rails along Interstate 80. Still more wait on the mile-square Tooele County site to be unloaded, cleaned and returned to their owners This year's

The Beaumont Enterprise - News - 09/30/2005 - Protect cars while coming home (Beaumont Enterprise)
Patrick Burris was driving through Houston last weekend, shortly after Hurricane Rita had passed. Along the edge of Highways 59 and 288, he said, were at least 60 abandoned cars, victims of the mass exodus that had taken place a few days before.

Relax! Poppin' from the exhaust is normal heat release from parts (The Sacramento Bee)
Q: I have a 2002 Chevrolet Z71 5.3L truck with 29,000 miles on it. After driving it and then turning it off, during cool-down, I hear a pop coming from the exhaust. I'm not sure if it's coming from the muffler or the catalytic converter. It kind of sounds like popping a dent out of a fender. What do you think?

Talladega II: Pole winner interview (Motorsport.com)
"First of all, I'm very, very happy to be on the pole here. Doug and Robert Yates put a lot of emphasis on coming to these restrictor plate races and trying to get a pole, so to get a pole here is pretty cool to see that from their point of view.

Benefit car show today helps 2 historic theaters (Arizona Daily Star)
Tucsonans can check out some hot cars today from atop the new Downtown parking garage at a benefit for the historic Fox Tucson Theatre and the Rialto Theatre. Organizers estimate about 150 cars of

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