Parked: What the Hell is a Biscayne?
Is it like a Biscotti? I’d almost forgotten about TPW’s ongoing Cars of Cuba series, which is a little sad considering how excited I was about it. So here’s a little something to rectify that! This...
View ArticleParked: Tragic Ends!!
One of the few remaining Mercedes 300SL Gullwings has met with a tragic end. A twenty-six year old mechanic for a high-end Mercedes restorer was taking the car for a “test drive” following some work,...
View ArticleQuick Film Friday: Ronin
We’ll talk about Ronin at a later date, but to close out our week here at TPW, I thought I’d post one of the best car cinema car chases of all time. What more could you want than three big … Continue...
View Article“Be there or be 740″
Zack and I were fortunate enough to be invited to a pre-Easter gathering with Jim from Old Dead Volvos and other assorted car minded folk. Unfortunately I had to go solo as Zack and family...
View ArticleThe Toyotafication of Subaru
It’s not exactly a secret ’round these parts that I both own and like Subarus. I always thought of Subaru as a slightly more mainstream Japanese Saab. Quirky, kinda odd-looking, and attracting a small,...
View ArticleTop Five: Celebrating Walter P. Chrysler
Today is the 138th birthday of Walter P. Chrysler, one of the early scions of the automobile industry. Like nearly all of the iconic names from the early days of the automobile industry, Chrysler...
View ArticleHistoric Wheels: 1909 Oldsmobile Model 20
Starting in the 1970′s and on through the demise of the “Old GM”, the ever increasing commonalities of badge engineering were seen as a detriment. Why bother to spend more money on a Cadillac Cimarron...
View ArticleParked: Like a Jackass
I was walking home from running some errands today when I came across this Rhode Scholar’s idiot’s parking job. I know the owner of this bull-bar equipped atrocity must think the Rav 4 is just the kind...
View ArticleDriving Music: Thiftshop
I’m away from the blogging thing today, to take Elle out to celebrate her birthday, but I didn’t want all 3 of our regular readers to worry, so here’s some music! Unless you’re deeply uncool, you’ll...
View ArticleFilm Friday: Spaceballs (1987)
Ha, bet you didn’t think Mel Brooks’ classic Spaceballs had any car content, but you’d be wrong! Alright we may be grasping at straws with this week’s Film Friday, but everybody loves Mel Brook’s...
View ArticleThis is Relevant to Our Interests
Ron Howard is back doing what he does best, directing awesome stuff, like the forthcoming Rush. The film will follow the F1 rivalry between Austrian Niki Lauda and James Hunt and the devastating crash...
View ArticleMystery Cord
Once in awhile, I’ll head to a local second-hand store What Cheer Anitques and sort through their collection of photographs from scrapbooks. A few years ago, I found these images of a Cord Beverly...
View ArticleTop Five: Wagons and Shooting Brakes
Wagons. What is it about them that suddenly are cool and desirable? I grew up in the era of minivans and pickup trucks as the family conveyance of choice. I rode the better part of my way across the...
View ArticleVintage Top Gear looks at American Cars Circa 1992
Jeremy Clarkson has never been kind on American cars. This clip from 1992 has him examining a curious result of the transatlantic tourism trade – Brits buying and importing American cars. Here again we...
View ArticleVolvo: Better than a Lotus, worse than a Subaru
Welcome to ad copy from 1990, where Volvo comes off better than a Lotus, but worse than a Subaru. Today, the grainy resolution of this smooshed Volvo would never past muster, and neither would the...
View ArticleSpeaking of safety
Following up on Tim’s earlier post is this very important message brought to you by Saab and the numbers 9 & 5.
View ArticleFilm Friday: Fear Is The Key (1973)
Written by Alistair MacLean of “Where Eagles Dare” and “Guns of Navarone” fame, Fear Is The Key is a fairly standard 70′s action movie with one spectacular car chase in the middle. You can check out...
View ArticleAdventures in Drivers Education
I don’t know how popular Drivers Education is in today’s schools, what with budget cuts and legal considerations. When I was in school they had stopped offering it as a regular school year class,...
View ArticleTop Five: Edmunds’ Ugliest Cars Edition
As a pair of particularly curmudgeonly car guys there are a number of things we don’t like – hybrids, automatic transmissions, Ohio, and Chip Foose, but Top 5/10/25/100 Lists written by non-car people...
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