Definition of ephemera plural ephemera also ephemerae play\i-ˈfe-mər-ē, -ˈfem-rē\ or ephemeras 1: something of no lasting significance —usually used in plural 2: ephemera plural : paper items (as posters, broadsides, and tickets) that were originally meant Read more…
Amongst other things, I put in a day a week at a local antique shop. I parked my daily driver which is a 2002 Buick Park Avenue directly in front of the place, as per Read more…
Chrysler’s square-rigged little K cars, while an object of derision for some, are an endless font of fascination for me. I don’t know what it is about their Lincoln-that-shrunk-in-the-wash looks and pretentious crystal Pentastar mascot Read more…
Has anyone bothered to write a review of this book since it was published back during the Reagan administration ? Doubtful. But nevertheless, being a diehard devotee of the unloved, outdated and esoteric I am Read more…
The Yugo car is many things. A byword for unreliability, the punchline of a joke, and in the countries that were once Yugoslavia, it’s an icon of rose tinted nostalgia. Jason Vuic explores this fossil Read more…
Where last we left off, your humble narrator was stricken with an incurable case of petrol lust as a result of a brief encounter with a 1989 Lincoln Town Car. The unfortunate thing about material Read more…
I gracefully thread the chiseled prow of a creamy 1989 Lincoln Town Car down a narrow serpentine California foothill lane, barely wide enough to contain the width of even a “downsized” Lincoln. Sunlight dapples the Read more…
The Animal, Part II: After extricating ourselves from da UP peat, we decided to make a run down to Gould City. Gould City is remarkable as it’s on US 2 with all the amenities – Read more…
Let’s pretend that you are the massive corporate fiefdom that was General Motors in the 1970’s. Hitherto you could do largely as you wished, but then something called CAFE happened, and it didn’t involve a Read more…
In the annals of automotive history there have been some Italian-American hybrids of eye watering beauty and astounding performance. In the 1950’s the likes of Frank Sinatra and Desi Arnaz could be seen motoring in Read more…