Jan 30, 2015
The “compact truck” segment, as we knew it, is largely dead. It was the segment launched in the late 60s and particularly early 70s with those charming, cheap to buy and easy to live with little trucks like the Ford Courier, Datsun 2000 pickup, Toyota...
Jan 26, 2015
These results are tabulated by the good folks at Hagerty Collector Car Insurance, and while you may really enjoy people paying tons and tons of money for collector cars, or alternately, you may hate it, the information is always interesting to say the least. So...
Jan 22, 2015
This news from my friends at Shelby American… photos by Kirk Gerbracht LAS VEGAS – Jan. 16, 2015 – Shelby American, a wholly owned subsidiary of Carroll Shelby International Inc. (CSBI:PK), launched the first global Shelby GT muscle car, which is based on the...
Jan 12, 2015
I wanted to show you photos from and tell you about this great event, which took place in early December, before talking about a holiday toy and fun raiser show seemed too strange in the new year. Motor4Toys is an annual show held in a massive office...
Jan 8, 2015
Jay Leno buys a lot of cars, and has a massive and fabulous collection of them, in the most fabulous block of warehouse garages and shops you’ll ever see. Yet he never sells any off. On rare occasion, he’s been known to donate them to be sold for real and...
Jan 2, 2015
I’m still in disbelief and shock over the New Year’s Eve passing of Ed Herrmann. I first became aware of Mr. Herrmann’s power and capability as an actor from his portrayal of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the TV miniseries, Eleanor and Franklin and also...
Dec 29, 2014
Linda J. Stone photos I went to a most wonderful car event over the weekend (more on that once I get the photos from my shooter) and ran into a couple of car community celebs, they being Mike and Edd, the creators and stars of the popular, “buy ’em cheap,...
Dec 15, 2014
Words and photos by Kirk Gerbracht So, my wife and I decide to take a trip around Oregon. After a quick morning flight from Los Angeles to Portland, we spend the next day sightseeing in Portland. Then it’s off to Tillamook – cheese, cows . . . and the...
Dec 10, 2014
It’s time again for one of my very favorite car shows; something for everyone, a low key day, and all for a great cause. This year’s show and pre-show dinner/gala are dedicated to the Steve McQueen motorcycling classic, On Any Sunday. The...
Dec 1, 2014
Family, Friends and Colleagues, Thanks to the so many of you that have contacted me asking whether I’ll be working Barrett-Jackson collector car auction coverage on TV when coverage of the events moves to the Disovery’s Velocity network for 2015. I’m...
Nov 25, 2014
I love full sized vans, particularly Ford Econolines. Now the outgoing 2014 version of the Ford E-Series (nee Econoline) has been around a while and served well, but Ford has been long planning to replace...
Nov 13, 2014
photos by Kirk Gerbracht As you know, I love Cars N Coffee style morning cruise-ins. Get your car out of the garage, see some other cool cars, have a cuppa, BS with your pals, and be home in time to get after your weekend schedule or chores. These things are a great...
Nov 3, 2014
And in case you weren’t there yesterday, the Best of France and Italy car show was fantastic. And if you were there you know that. Be back to you soon, I promise; have lots to share with you. ...
Oct 27, 2014
One of my very most favoritest local car shows is The Best of France and Italy coming up this Sunday November 2, in the San Fernando Valley’s not so famous Woodly Park. This show is free to attend and cheap to enter. French cars, Italian cars, lots of car talk...
Oct 20, 2014
Guest Blog: Words and photos by Kirk Gerbracht ARCADIA, CA – Ultimately, it is cars that make a great car show. But sometimes the venue just adds a little something extra. Such was the case with Mustangs in the Garden. Celebration of the Mustang’s 50th birthday...
Oct 7, 2014
A Century of quintessentially Italian Carmaking and Motorsport This year one of the world’s most-expressive and best-loved car companies celebrates its first full century in business and forges confidently into its second hundred years. Maserati’s history is...
Sep 24, 2014
I’m pleased to announce that my newest book is off the press and ready for you. It’s the third in my now somewhat trademark trilogy of Hollywood’s True Car Guys biographies. First was McQueen’s Machines: The Cars and Bikes of a Hollywood Icon,...
Sep 22, 2014
John Steinbeck is of course among the world’s great authors. I enjoy his immaculate writing and grand sense of humor and drama. And I thought you might enjoy a read of this classic he wrote about cars, as published in the July 1954 issue of Holiday magazine....
Sep 3, 2014
James Garner, Steve McQueen, and Paul Newman. My three original Hollywood Car Guy heroes. Somehow I wrote books about them in reverse alphbetical order. Steve McQueen first, then Paul Newman, and now the trilogy is complete, as my piece on the car guy life of James...
Aug 25, 2014
The original Cadillac CTS of two decades ago convinced me that GM hadn’t forgotten how to develop a car, and that it wasn’t going to make every vehicle in its lineup a badge-engineered clone of a half dozen others. It hasn’t always stuck with that...
Aug 12, 2014
I love big game sportscar racing. Or even small time, not so big game sportscar racing. Over the years I’ve had ebbing and flowing interest in drag racing, NASCAR, and off-road racing, but I’m a road racer at heart. Probably from spending many a dusty...
Aug 6, 2014
The 1994 Indy 500 was special for me for many reasons. First was that it was planned as my here and friend Mario Andretti’s final crack at the Brickyard. Second is that I planned to be there, with my now late father; we’d gone twice before and had a blast....
Jul 31, 2014
Sir, your four door Camaro SS is waiting… The new Chevrolet SS Super Sport sedan has lived many lives in many different countries under several names and badges. In Australia, it’s a Holden. In England, A Vaxhuall, and an Opel in Germany. It was here in...
Jul 22, 2014
My friend, photographer Evan Klein and I were having lunch one day and he said “hey, what would you think about a car show at Franklin Canyon Lake Park?” That’s easy; the Beverly Hills location is beautiful, rustic, casual, genuine, and historic....
