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Article: Car show with 'tude; JELLO WRESTLING IS ONLY PART OF THE NOPI NATIONALS EXPERIENCE.
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- AutoWeek
- Article date:
- November 8, 2004
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Byline: Steven Cole Smith
RESPECT? Not enough, considering I was the one who started this whole import tuner deal back in 1971. That's when I ordered a one-piece chrome exhaust for my Volkswagen Beetle from the J.C. Whitney catalog. It cost $21.95. In my parents' driveway, I removed the two little cigar-sized tailpipes and bolted on the new exhaust, with no help from my crew or my peeps or my posse, and there was no camera crew to tape it for Spike TV, which today, I know, is hard to imagine.
The exhaust conversion was a success in that the Beetle sounded like a flatulent yak. My only mistake was to point it toward the driver's side, so when I'd try to ...