As you may remember, I’m deeply involved with the annual Friends of Steve McQueen Car and Motorcycle show held each June in Chino, California, to benefit the Boys Republic schools. The financial needs of the school are great, and the fundraising goals for this year’s show are large. Here’s an interesting project that a group…
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I generally love Mazdas. Mazdas are generally more sporty and more expressive cars than the models by other carmakers with which they compete. And the Zoom-zoom brand has also given us great sports cars such as th RX-7, RX-8, and the best compact British sports car ever built, the MX5 Miata. So I had high…
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News from my friends at Shelby American that I thought you might enjoy knowing about…MS Only 75 total (50 for the USA and 25 international) Shelby Terlingua Mustangs will be built 750+ supercharged V8 offered for the first time in a Shelby Terlingua Mustang Each car comes with a plaque honoring Carroll Shelby, Bill Neale…
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For reasons I won’t bore you with, I ended up with this ’79 El Camino and don’t need it in my fleet. So its for sale. I’d call it a good driver quality piece, better than a beater or a parts car but nobody’s show car. Runs and drives pretty well. Highly equipped. Myriad small…
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I love vans. Always have, both in the custom, surf wagon, shag carpet and 8-track sense, and because of their inherent practicality. I owned an old Econoline back in the day, and would own another van if I had need (or room) for one. My general preference is for full-sized, traditional, American branded, rear drive…
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This show took place nearly six months ago, so I’m almost embarrassed to finally be putting up these photos now. But its such a great show, and I didn’t want to waste Kirk Gerbracht’s great photos, and this can also serve as a calendar alert for the 2016 event, which is June 12 at Lacey…
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Last September 30 marked the 60th Anniversary (September 30, 1955) of the death of actor James Dean, as he and his mechanic were involved in a tragic, fatal accident as they were driving from Los Angeles to Monterey for an SCCA sports car race. Along with the assassination of JFK, the death of Marilyn Monroe,…
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I love big, sturdy pickup trucks. Of course pickups are built in many parts of the world, and serve many global markets. My favorites are what I’ll call, for lack of a better term, American style pickups. Large, capable, sturdy, long lived, powerful. And up until not too many generations ago, only American car companies…
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America’s best car museum reopens after a year on hiatus and a near $100 Million reinvention. photography by me, and courtesy the Petersen Automotive Museum Los Angeles California’s Petersen Automotive Museum had been closed to the public for a little over a year, but not at all out of business. It’s been to the…
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I’ve liked the Nissan Altima ever since, in 2002, Nissan threw away the old Stanza based Altima, and restyled and really grew the car up to the segment. In 2002 came new styling, new underpinnings, finally a V-6 engine option, all in a segment appropriate size package. Nissan has done a good job over time…
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