How car shows are making themselves irrelevant
On lawn chairs, plastic trophies and money.
How the Small Block Chevy engine dominated the Hot Rod world
What do Hot Rods, Overhead Valve V-8s, Internal Memos, and a Belgian have in common? They are responsible for the best Hot Rod engine ever made!
NASCAR Stole The Wrong Idea
NASCAR stole the wrong idea. If they’re going to steal from another sport why not steal something that suits NASCAR?
Pontiac built the Aztec but not these cars
In 1999 Pontiac introduced the world to the Aztec crossover. The release was greeted with the kind of reaction one might have if they found out that their first cousin had just announced that they were in training to become a “Methamphetamine Sommelier”.
Old cars on old roads
It is a fact that a certain section of the population enjoys old cars. They spend most of their free time, and some of the time they should be working on other things, thinking about, working on, and driving around in old cars. Old cars are noisy, fussy, inefficient, and, if we are honest with ourselves, dangerous.
Vinmotive takes a hike
Vinmotive’s efforts to celebrate Earth Day 2024, started an entire week early. Instead of hitting the treadmill, I hit a local walking trail at a state park. The trip did not disappoint. To my surprise I found two early touring cars rotting in one of Tenessee’s State Parks. Both are in Rock Island State Park on the Collins River Nature Trail.
Automotive Technological Innovation, Then and Now
One of the things I find most interesting about the kinds of automobiles we feature here is the number of companies looking to make electric cars.
A BLEAK FUTURE AHEAD
By 1979, when President Carter delivered his infamous Crisis of Confidence Speech, automotive manufactures were a hollowed out shell of what they had been in 1969.
Like 70s fashion, electric cars have come back around.
At one time in there were almost 300 companies in the business of making electric automobiles in this country.
Burn up that quarter mile
The old adage goes that once there was a town with 2 cars, the first race happened.
What killed the first muscle car era?
There's an old saying in the car business that goes something like this: "You can sell an old man a young man's car, but you'll never sell a young man an old mans car."
1903 was a Year of Innovation and also the beginning of the end for travel as it was known
In an earlier post I made the claim that the automobile changed the very nature of travel changing it from an exercise in communal discovery with implications for the world at large to, well, a meaningless trip and I stand by that statement.
Car Shows are a Thing of the Past and That’s a Good Thing
Car shows are a tradition that has been carried on for over 100 years, so get out and enjoy one today.
What if we didn’t all own a car…
In the early days of automotive history a lot of questions were unsettled. Questions like which engine technology is the best had not been decided.
What happened to the junkyards?
When I was 17 my daily driver was a 1953 Ford F100 pickup truck. It was a very nice truck, but had two problems, at least in my 17 year old mind.