Viking Funeral!
Sometimes, a picture - or a movie - is worth a thousand words. Here's a little visual vignette to show you what you could do with cars before cars got in...
When More Power’s Not Enough
It's interesting that - on the one hand - car manufacturers are making vehicles more powerful than any that have preceded them. GM, for instance, is about to debut the latest...
Inflation Plus….
Inflated car prices are a great way to gauge how much we've being gouged by the private banks that control (and relentlessly devalue) the currency of the United States. But we're...
The New vs. The Old
I got into a debate the other day with a reader about the future of the car hobby; about whether today’s cars are fundamentally disposable appliances that work great for a...
Missing the Cordoba
"I know my own needs," said Ricardo Montalban. "And what I need from an automobile, I find in this new Cordoba." He went on to explain the various virtues of this...
Cars You Used to See a Lot . . .
A very sound rule of thumb way to determine the goodness of a given make/model of car is to look around for them. If you see a lot of them around...
Remember the Bolt-in?
One of the more ridiculous things our parents in Washington (i.e., the government) did to try to get us to not drive faster than they thought was "safe" was to require...
Reader Question: Can We Build The Perfect Car?
Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply!
Mark asks: I want to build a car from a good set of bones. I want an American muscle car that does everything...
Doomed: Li’l Red Express, 1978-1979
High-performance trucks are back - but they aren't new.
One of the first of the breed dates back to the height of the Disco era, 1978 - when high-performance cars had all-but-ceased-to-exist,...
To Update Or Not to Update?
As modern cars pass the event horizon of cost and complexity (and so, hassle) it's tempting to go retro and buy an older car - one without computers, black boxes, touchscreen inputs...