Style in the 80s was interesting. You could wear a white t-shirt under a white sport coat while wearing white slacks and white tennis shoes. I guess it was convenient if you spilled something white on your clothes, like some sort of white powder…nobody would know. Same thing goes if you drive a white-on-white Corvette, […]
The term snail gets tossed around when you are discussing old Mercedes-Benz sedans…but not in the way you might use it here. This next W116 Mercedes-Benz has a snail under the hood…yes a turbocharger the size of a fully grown Giant African land snail that pushes air into an LS based 5.3 from a late […]
GMC (formerly the Grabowsky Motor Company, then General Motors Truck Company, and later GMC Truck & Coach Division) is a specialty division of GM for trucks and utility vehicles. However, those trucks, vans, and SUVs have always been available as Chevrolets, Buicks, Olds…so is it a premium brand…sort of, although you can often get a […]
The Spira is an electric 3-wheeled motorcycle designed and built by SoCal inventor Lon Ballard who believes that his invention can save lives and the planet. The electric powertrain is supported by a honeycomb composite frame and the external body panels are made from styrofoam — think like a car made from those Big Mac […]
If you are going to drive something crazy, it should be really crazy. If you want to celebrate Corona beer, don’t just drive a car with a Corona bumper sticker or a Corona air freshener…or even a complete Corona vinyl wrap. That’s not nutty enough. You need to go completely off the reservation and drive […]
I don’t know much about bicycles, but I do know something about business and this is a business opportunity. A bicycle business opportunity. The seller suggests they could be used at Burning Man, but there isn’t enough Lysol/bleach/fire on the planet to sanitize those seats after a weekend at Burning Man…so I’ll instead suggest that […]
The Ford Pinto was released for the 1971 model year as the face of the future for American automobiles. I think that might have been true…because it was smaller, crappier, and a total disappointment to all involved. If you think I’m exaggerating, just keep in mind that domestic automakers had a 90 percent market share […]
This next car came in as a tip from Cory who said “NOT A FIERO”. But, it’s a kit-car Lambo? How could it not be a Fiero? Maybe a Beetle? No…it is a Saturn Sky Redline (the corporate cousin to the Pontiac Solstice GXP) that has been somehow converted into a fake Gallardo. I hate […]
This next car is a smoking deal if you are looking at it from a dollars per pound perspective. The Packard Super Eight was a giant beast of a car that received a modern facelift to post war integrated headlight styling in 1948. It would have sold for something under $3000 in when new ($38k […]
The Dodge Shelby CSX is a strange car that lives in the land between classic and garbage. Most examples for sale are totally trashed for almost free, or stored with 17 miles on the odo and the seller asks a fortune. Today’s CSX is somewhere in the middle, has a decent number of miles, put […]