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Boeing’s Deadly Sin: Making Basic Safety Features Optional – Taking A Page Out of Bad Old GM’s Playbook
Posted on March 22, 2019 | 192 CommentsI’ve written numerous articles about bad old GM’s Deadly Sins, including such transgressions as making the most basic safety items optional, such as disc brakes on the new FWD 1967 […] -
Wordless Outtake: My 16 Year Old Son Did This Tonight
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Curbside Classic: 1965 Marion MCTF Flatbed Truck – A Truck So Big It’s a Place
Posted on March 20, 2019 | 36 CommentsDo you like big trucks? I’m talking about a Really Big Truck. The Biggest Truck in the World. Here it is: the Marion Power Shovel Company’s 1965 Missile Crawler Transporter […] -
COAW – Car Of A Week – 2006 Toyota 4Runner
Posted on March 19, 2019 | 24 CommentsHere it is March Break, and this year I’m not in Costa Rica. I’m at work staring out my window at the snow, and at my 4Runner. -
CC Newsstand: Cadillac Shows New CT5 Sedan – Goodbye Arts and Science – And Mercedes Will Build Its Uber-Luxury Maybach SUV in Alabama
Posted on March 18, 2019 | 88 CommentsIt’s likely to sell reasonably well in its biggest market, China, but I’m having a hard time seeing the new Cadillac XT5 find a lot of traction in the US, […] -
Where Did Today’s 1975 Malibu CC Go? In the Trash
Posted on March 16, 2019 | 20 CommentsMy apologies; I’ve been very busy working outside taking advantage of our first sunny spring weather. Meaning, I didn’t check this morning’s CC, which was supposedly about this “1975 Malibu” […] -
Museum Outtake: 1962 Ford Taunus Transit Ambulance – The Forgotten Transit That Started It All
Posted on March 15, 2019 | 16 CommentsSome names for cars and vehicles just work. Mustang. Mini. Interceptor. Land Rover. Voyager. Spider. Thunderbird, perhaps my favourite. But of the names still in service, perhaps the best for […] -
Trackside Classic: St Pancras Station – Industrial Revolution Meets Gothic Revival
Posted on March 14, 2019 | 30 CommentsBritain has no shortage of wonderful railway stations large and small – London Paddington, York, Newcastle Central, Glasgow Central and Bristol Temple Meads all have their fans among the larger […] -
Cars of My Girlfriends: 1967 Austin Healey 3000
Posted on March 8, 2019 | 60 Comments(first posted 3/12/2014) Wax on, wax off. Well, not quite. I had just finished compounding, cleaning and waxing my girlfriend’s Healey 3000 Mk III–something it had never been treated to […] -
Obscure Rebadges From Around the World
Posted on March 6, 2019 | 140 Comments(first posted 1/29/2014) Those who follow the auto industry know of all the lazily rebadged cars used to fill different manufacturers’ model line-ups. The derisive term “badge engineering” was coined […] -
Motor Show Outtake: 1948 Hillman Minx: Look Into the Future With The X-Ray Minx
Posted on March 4, 2019 | 19 CommentsThe motor show was always a good opportunity to show off the new wares of the industry. This is less of the case now than it was, of course, with […] -
Curbside Oddity: Kia Time Machine: Great Scott!
Posted on March 1, 2019 | 13 CommentsThe only Kia I wouldn’t mind driving… -
In Motion Classic: 1964 Ford Custom – Not Quite A Happy Face
Posted on February 28, 2019 | 67 CommentsSome older cars can just make you smile, by virtue of styling cues from a bygone era, flashy chrome, vibrant colors, endearing quirkiness, or maybe all of those things. Some […] -
Curbside Classic: 1985 Mercedes 300D Turbodiesel – More Than A Fashion Statement
Posted on February 24, 2019 | 71 Comments(first posted 3/13/2014) If anyone wants to know why the Mercedes W124 and W201 were considered so influential in their day, consider their predecessor, the W123. Conservative even by […] -
CC Capsule: 1960 Peugeot 403 – Thai Frog Havana Style
Posted on February 21, 2019 | 15 CommentsWhat you see is not always what you get. Outwardly, we seem to be in the presence of a 1955-66 Peugeot 4-door saloon. But this is Thailand, not Africa. This […]