OJ’s Bronco vs. Today’s
Now that OJ's in the news again, hopefully for the last time, it might be worth going back in time again - to remember the Ford Bronco OJ was slouched down...
The Weirdmobile
One of there reasons to go to an old car show isn't so much because the cars are ancient but because they are weird - relative to the same, as they...
Doomed: Honda S2000 (1999-2009 RIP)
Race cars make terrible street cars - but every now and then, one will be offered for sale to the general public.
Usually, briefly.
L-88 Corvettes with lumpy solid lifter cams and three...
Hershey Car Show Corona’d . . . But Not By The Virus
People make the intellectual error of attributing the shutdowns and lockdowns to "the virus." In fact, the virus has had hardly any effect on anything - outside of nursing homes.
But government...
Once, We Were Interested
Why is interest in cars waning - among the young, especially? The ones who used to be the most interested in cars?
There are many reasons. I have one memory that may...
The Cost of a Time Machine
The good news first.
You can legally buy a brand-new car without a single air bag or any of the saaaaaaaaafety equipment mandated by the government since the late 1960s.
No back-up camera,...
A Mustang Story
Not all the news is bad news.
Ford has not cancelled the Mustang, for instance. Nor are there plans to ruin it by turning it into a battery powered device. At least...
Muscle Memory
It was forty years ago that America turned 200 - and Pontiac, 50.
1976 was a special year for both.
And for the Trans-Am, which by 1976 had become Pontiac's signature muscle car.
The...
Doomed: AMC Eagle (1979-1988)
American Motors Corp had a rep for being, well, different.
Broke, too.
The lack of money tied into the different drummer-ness.
Oddities like the Ambassador and Matador, the Hornet and Gremlin ... and of course,...
The Shitbox, Fondly Recalled
The late and very great Brock Yates coined the term.
Shitboxes.
They don't make them anymore - not really. Modern economy cars are not shitboxes.
A shitbox is something like an '80s-era Ford Escort...