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Photo by the author. As teenagers, most of us have done things to our first cars that we wished we hadn’t, but if we didn’t try them we wouldn’t have learned from the experience. When I last wrote about my Marina Blue 1967 Chevelle SS 396, unbeknownst to you, more Read more
With Ronan Glon at Ran When Parked doing a wonderful job of posting European carspotting photos, we haven’t ventured beyond the U.S. borders much for our series lately, but after seeing the great street scenes from Tokyo that Japanese Nostalgic Car recently posted, we thought we’d shake things up a Read more
While this 1970 Checker MediCab for sale on Hemmings.com has been painted to look like a taxi, it apparently never once served a day in such livery. Most everybody – car enthusiast or not – knows Checkers for their taxis, but the Checkers more likely to survive the years and Read more
John Fitch with his Fitch Phoenix in 2009. Photo by the author. As recently as a few years ago, John Fitch still entertained thoughts of putting his Fitch Phoenix sports car into production, giving its name a literal backing. He asked people on the streets whether the design still had Read more
1953 Chrysler Ghia Special Coupe. Photo by Franck Sicre, courtesy RM Auctions. Chrysler’s Ghia-built show cars of the early 1950 demonstrated the potential of a marriage between Italian coachbuilding (influenced by Virgil Exner’s designs) and American engineering. Chrysler only had six Ghia Special Coupes constructed, but Ghia followed up with Read more
The biomechanical themes in the work of artist and designer H.R. Giger – who died Monday at the age of 74 – suited science fiction well. One of his most enduring creations, the xenomorph from the Ridley Scott movie Alien, earned him an Academy Award in 1980, and his style Read more
Photos courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. If Harry A. Miller and the Duesenberg brothers were the first geniuses of the front-engine American championship racing car, then Abraham Jacob Watson – the other icon of Indianapolis racing who went by the initials of A.J. – was surely the last. He died Monday, Read more
Where’s the barkers? Where’s the lifestyle booths? Where’s the booze? Okay, so maybe this photo of an auto auction taken in November 1959, courtesy the Library of Virginia, doesn’t exactly depict a predecessor to modern-day collector car auctions, but it is interesting to see not only how auto auctions were Read more
From a quick scan of the various Ed Roth trikes out there, this 1972 Ed Roth trike for sale on Hemmings.com looks a lot like the Wheeler Dealer/Vitamin E. However, according to Pat Ganahl’s book on the Rat Fink, Roth made molds of his various trike bodies and sold the Read more
Photos courtesy James G. Murphy Company. Though described as “this year’s Lambrecht auction,” the Charles Kee estate sale this past weekend in Brothers, Oregon, didn’t quite attract the media attention and jaw-dropping prices of last year’s Chevrolet dealership dispersal. It did, however, scatter hundreds of project cars into the hands Read more