It’s been 15 years, and I still won’t forgive the U.S. Postal Service for destroying my 50th anniversary issue of Road & Track magazine. That thick, limited-edition copy arrived torn, taped and battered with a little yellow note on the cover stamped “Damaged in handling in the Postal Service.”

If I had been dead, I might not have noticed.

But the Postal Service does like cars, and for that, I can at least give my mailman a nod. Starting Friday, the latest stamps from the series “America on the Move” feature five muscle cars from the late ’60s and early ’70s, each illustrated in rich color doing smoky burnouts.

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They got some of them right!

Carroll Shelby is worshiped for building the fastest Fords on the planet and admired for creating a handful of fascinating Mopar products, the greatest of which may well be a one-off Shelby-ized truck prototype known as the Street Fighter Rampage.

Collectors thought the car squirreled away in some designer’s garage, but the reality is it’s been in a California junkyard.

Even worse than seeing it baking out there in the California sun is knowing that it can’t even be sold whole, due to it not having any legal papers. Oh, it hurts.

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More than a third of Canadians report driving a sexy car makes them feel more attractive

TORONTO, May 23, 2012 /CNW/ – Step aside chocolates and oysters, a new survey reveals the car may be our new aphrodisiac.  More than one in three Canadians (36 percent), including almost 40 percent of women and close to 50 percent of young Canadians under 35 report driving a sexy car makes them feel more attractive.

Findings from the new study were released today, and came from The CarCourting Report, commissioned by autoTRADER.ca and conducted among Angus Reid Forum panel members across Canada.

“Canadians really didn’t hold back in this study, showing us that although choosing a car might seem like a wholly rational decision, emotion and even social implications are a major influence on Canadian car buyers,” said Ian MacDonald, Director of Marketing, Trader Corporation.  “We discovered that people not only judge others on the type of car they drive, they also internalize their choices – cars appear to be a key part of how we identify ourselves personally.”

When it comes to finding the true love of our lives in automobiles, sadly, this country falls short.  More than 7 in 10 Canadians polled (71 percent) said they were not in love with their current ride.  But by no means are we a country of quitters! When it comes to courting cars, the majority of Canadians (58 percent) report being polygamists – admitting they would test drive many different makes and models before settling on the car they like best.  AutoTRADER.ca’s new autoLYZER app may help them curb those wild ways, by narrowing down their selection process, so they can ultimately unite with their true automobile love.

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This parking gone very wrong will end up with two cars heading to the local junkyard!

Unveiled at the General Motors Highways and Horizons pavilion at the 1939-40 World’s Fair in New York, the Pontiac ‘Ghost Car’ was buit on the chassis of a 1939 Pontiac Deluxe Six. In collaboration with Rohm & Haas, a chemical company that had recently developed Plexiglass, the concept for a transparent car was conceived and it was the first one ever built in America.

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What happens if you married a car and a motorcycle?

THIS!!

Francois Knorreck started working on this unique motorcycle-car, 10 years ago. It took him 10 years and $20,000 to complete this masterpiece he calls the Snaefell. He used a Laverda motorcycle and put together the car using whatever parts he got his hands on.

This guy has some serious talent and what a great idea, instead of junking this:

He turned it into this:

Love these!

This is taken from somewhere in Poland!