Girlie Cars of the Recent Past
There are manly cars and there are not-so-manly cars. And then there are cars that Liberace would have loved. Back in the '80s, such cars included the VW Rabbit cabriolet -...
Little Stinker in My Office
Recently divorced guys usually go out and get themselves a young girlfriend. I decided to do something different.
I brought Little Stinker into my office.
Little Stinker is my 1975 Kawasaki S1 250C....
2017 BMW C Evolution
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Well, behold the BMW electric scooter.
You will never have to gas it up. But you'll have to wait a few hours while it charges...
The Littlest Triple
Weird little bikes are hard to find new. A bleak homogeneity has settled in. Small bikes are safe bikes; conventionally styled, with mild engines. Made, in brief, for beginners. To be...
What Would Satan Drive?
Here are some candidates:
* Bugatti Veyron -
Old Scratch certainly has the scratch necessary to acquire a seven figure chariot of hellfire like the $1.7 million, 16-cylinder, 1,000-horsepower Bugatti super supercar. And...
Oldsmobile Regency sedan, 1971-1984
Oldsmobile, like Anne Boleyn, probably never actually felt the blade.
By the time the end came in 2002, Oldsmobile was already effectively dead. GM had moved on to other tarts such as...
Retro-review: 1964 Ford Mustang
Like Jed Clampett, who inadvertently struck oil while he was out huntin' 'coon, Ford's General Manager Lee Iacocca probably didn't fully realize just what he was about to tap into with...
Cars (and concepts) that deserved to be crushed…
Automotive good ideas gone bad range far and wide, whether it's a classic fail like the exploding Pintos of the early '70s - or a late-model turd like the Pontiac Aztek.
Here...
A Labor of Love – My AW11 MR2
AW11 is the chassis code Toyota assigned to the mark 1 (first generation) MR2 when it was introduced in 1984. It has affectionately become the nickname of all first generation MR2s...
Party Time! Excellent! 1975–1980 AMC Pacer
Wayne’s World immortalized the AMC Pacer, a car which defined the 1970s even more than a Bee Gees 8-track, the “Farrah” hairstyle, or the leisure suit. In fact, wearing a leisure...