While we here in the Northeast spent all weekend chipping ice dams off our roofs, Retromobile debuted a new, shorter format for France’s best-known and largest indoor old-car event. Fortunately, our friend Kit Foster made the trip and reported on Read more
Clamshell! Fins! Roof rack! Rally-type wheels! I probably shouldn’t forward this 1976 Buick Estate Wagon to Litwin, because he’ll go raid his savings account and drag me on a road trip to California to buy it. Then again, maybe it’s Read more
My mother has always referred to Karmann Ghias as “pickles.” I have no idea how that nickname ever came about, but in honor of her birthday today, let’s take a look at this pickle 1974 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia out of Read more
It probably won’t go viral, but there’re plenty of excellent Truck Norris jokes in derf’s thread about his J10 on the IFSJA.org forums. My favorite so far: Truck Norris doesn’t need oil. It just drives back in time and eats Read more
Readers of car magazines in the late ’70s and first half of the ’80s will remember a series of Porsche ads called “Consumer Orientation” in a “Series of Technical Papers.” As far as we can tell, they went up to Read more
The library at the University of Illinois at Chicago has just released a series of photographs of downtown Chicago street scenes taken by the Illinois Department of Transportation over the years. Being the IDOT, there are admittedly many photographs of Read more
Editor’s note: In recent conversations with crime writer Rose Keefe, we learned that in 2008 she’d researched the murder of Billy Bate, the first man believed to have been murdered in an automobile. She has generously allowed us to share Read more
This trailer for the 1958 movie “Dragstrip Riot” (curiously missing any shots of a dragstrip) may not have Tom, Crow, and Joel/Mike riffing on it, but that’s not to say it doesn’t deserve the MST3K treatment.
Fans of big-block Ford power are likely familiar with Jon Kaase and his engine-building outfit, which forged its reputation on winning Pro Stock engines. Pro drag racing programs are still a big part of the business at Kaase’s, but over Read more
There are a lot of reasons to love Duesenbergs: the amazing engineering, the breathtaking bodies, the incomparable feeling behind the wheel. But the thing that makes some of us just go nuts is the history. I don’t mean the Fred-and-Augie Read more