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  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:14:31 -0500</pubDate>
  <description>Tips and Advice -- find out how to maintain, service, insure, wash and wax, and change the oil in your car with tips from TheCarConnection.com.</description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: Mightier than the Sword]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[<img src='http://images.thecarconnection.com/tmb/car_light_tool_kit_100009453_t.gif'> Old Tubal Cain didn't   stop inventing after he forged the first sword, giving man domain over the   earth. A few thousand years later he turned out an even mightier implement, the   wrench, which dominated the 19th and 20th centuries.        In days long past, no man was   complete without a sword, as today no man is compete without a set of ...]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: Let Freedom Beep]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[<img src='http://images.thecarconnection.com/tmb/jeep_american_flag_100009525_t.gif'> The   automobile, thanks to the internal combustion engine, has contributed more to   individual freedom and equality between the classes and, yes, diversity (ugh)   than any other device in human history. That's a big statement to make but I   think it holds up.     I don't   have time or my editor's indulgence to run through the history of ...]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: EGR Equals Grrr!]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[I was working on a basic '97 Ford F-150 last week. It was powered by   the mediocre 4.2-liter V-6 engine, rather than the mighty 4.9-liter in-line six   that used to make a Ford six-cylinder truck better than everyone else's V-8.        The complaint was a rough-running engine, with the   check-engine light on. A quick test drive revaled a ...]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: Ford Follies]]></title>
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   <pubDate>1163318400</pubDate>
   <description><![CDATA[MORE:  Mechanic's Tale: The Big Cat by Douglas Flint   (8/21/2006)I fell in love with a machine - and lost.  More   Mechanic's Tales from Doug Flint                The first six months of   1942 must have been a tough time to be an American without getting seriously   depressed. There was a seemingly endless series of Amercan defeats at the ...]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: A Clean Car]]></title>
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   <pubDate>1160982000</pubDate>
   <description><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: The Big Cat by Douglas Flint   (8/21/2006)I fell in love with a machine - and lost.  More   Mechanic's Tales from Doug Flint    My   neighbor is one of those guys. You know, the kind who set a standard that make   the rest of us look bad. He tirelessly hauls mulch and flowers from one end of   the yard to the othe, built his ...]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: Winter Maintenance]]></title>
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   <pubDate>1159772400</pubDate>
   <description><![CDATA[As the Wehrmacht bears down   on      Moscow,       Russia      's oldest, most reliable   soldier, General Winter, comes to her rescue. The sudden drop to sub-zero   temperature has caused the German machinery of death to grind to a halt. The oil   has turned to a Jell-O-like substance in the crankcases of the tanks, trucks,   and aircraft. ...]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: Theft Deterrence]]></title>
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   <pubDate>1158476400</pubDate>
   <description><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: The Big Cat by Douglas Flint   (8/21/2006)I fell in love with a machine -- and lost.  More   Mechanic's Tales from Doug Flint                    The advent of cheap   electronics in the late Seventies, combined with an ever-increasing auto theft   problem, led to the growth of a large aftermarket industry manufacturig and ...]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: Mechanics Gone Wild!]]></title>
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   <pubDate>1157353200</pubDate>
   <description><![CDATA[Somewhere, somehow, you   may have gotten the impression that mechanics are sexist pigs with pictures of   scantily clad women adorning their tool boxes and bathrooms, secretly or not so   secretly ogling every woman who walks through the door.      You would for the most part be   correct. Even the sitcom Seinfeld, which seemed to hit about ...]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: The Big Cat ]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[More   Mechanic's Tales from Doug Flint     Mechanic's Tale: Summer Reading List 2006 by   Douglas Flint (7/24/2006)If your summer still has legs, read about wheels in   these.  Mechanic's Tale: Call Girls by Douglas Flint   (6/26/2006)I'm without front desk help. Help!     I recently acquired,   repaired, loved, and lost, wat I now consider ...]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: Mitsu's Tales of Woe ]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[More   Mechanic's Tales from Doug Flint     Mechanic's Tale: Summer Reading List 2006 by   Douglas Flint (7/24/2006)If your summer still has legs, read about wheels in   these.  Mechanic's Tale: Call Girls by Douglas Flint   (6/26/2006)I'm without front desk help. Help!                                                                    We seem ...]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: Summer Reading List 2006]]></title>
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   <pubDate>1153551600</pubDate>
   <description><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: The Flushing of America by   Douglas Flint (4/17/2006)Just a Nightline away from scandal.  Mechanic's Tale: Junkyard Dogs by Douglas   Flint (5/29/2006)One of the most profitable businesses ever run out of a   trailer.  More   Mechanic's Tales from Doug Flint                                       Somewhere in my pat,   perhaps ...]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: Flushing Redux]]></title>
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   <pubDate>1152428400</pubDate>
   <description><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: The Flushing of   America by Douglas Flint (4/17/2006)Just a Nightline away from   scandal.  Mechanic's Tale: Junkyard   Dogs by Douglas Flint (5/29/2006)One of the most profitable   businesses ever run out of a trailer.  More Mechanic's Tales from Doug   Flint          I am still getting   resonses (and a surprising number of ...]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: Call Girls]]></title>
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   <pubDate>1151305200</pubDate>
   <description><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: The Flushing of America by   Douglas Flint (4/17/2006)Just a Nightline away from scandal.  Mechanic's Tale: Junkyard Dogs by Douglas   Flint (5/29/2006)One of the most profitable businesses ever run out of a   trailer.  More   Mechanic's Tales from Doug Flint       For the first time   since the early Eighties I m without a ...]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: Shock and Aw Shucks]]></title>
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   <link>http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1009190_mechanics-tale-shock-and-aw-shucks</link>
   <pubDate>1150095600</pubDate>
   <description><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: The Flushing of America by   Douglas Flint (4/17/2006)Just a Nightline away from scandal.  Mechanic's Tale: Junkyard Dogs by Douglas   Flint (5/29/2006)One of the most profitable businesses ever run out of a   trailer.  More   Mechanic's Tales from Doug Flint         Surviving on ...]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: Junkyard Dogs]]></title>
   <guid>http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1009143_mechanics-tale-junkyard-dogs</guid>
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   <pubDate>1148886000</pubDate>
   <description><![CDATA[Mechanic's Tale: A Sacred Trust by Douglas   Flint (5/1/2006)The business of referrals can be a religious experience--or   from hell.  Mechanic's Tale: The Flushing of America by   Douglas Flint (4/17/2006)Just a Nightline away from scandal.  More   Mechanic's Tales from Doug Flint         Last month I had occasion   to repair two rther old ...]]></description>
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