Book Review: The Yugo by Jason Vuic
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. Continue Reading
Ballad of the Magnolia Belle- Part Two
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. Continue Reading
The Ballad of the Magnolia Belle
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 Continue Reading
Part II of III of the Pinto Saga – or – Surf's Up!
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 Continue Reading
Honey, I Shrunk the Land Yacht
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, Continue Reading
Iacocca's Drag Queen
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 Continue Reading
Part I of III – Four Wheelin' a Pinto.
It’s time to introduce you to…The Animal. Part I: The Animal was a friend of mine through jr. high, high school and college. He received his nickname as he was Continue Reading
A Sunday Race – Pants Not Included.
Summer of ’83. I was working as a greeter a the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn Michigan, getting paid to say hello and goodbye. I had a Continue Reading
Touring, or the therapeutic benefit of vitamin MGB
Alas Dear Reader, I’m digressing ever so slightly from the malaise era owing to the inescapable fact that my 1971 MGB was built just prior to the dawn of Continue Reading
And Along Came…DeLorean!
Automotive historians generally agree the depths of the Malaise Era were plumbed (probed) around 1979-1981. This was a time when the vaunted Trans Am was saddled with a 301 cubic Continue Reading