The guys at RM Sotheby’s Auctions think they have the best lineup of classic cars for sale — and the collection of Jim Click’s Ford racing cars offered in Monterey on 19-20 August 2016 does look nothing short of extraordinary…but I’m gonna have to say that they don’t have nearly enough home built rigging, custom […]
The Cadillac Cimarron is often accused of being many things — a badge engineering experiment gone wrong, the worst car ever built with an egg crate grill, and a festering pile of monkey feces, but you can’t lump it into the same boat as the typical Cadillac and accuse it of being a…well…boat. That is […]
In the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, the star of the movie isn’t a debinaire Roger Moore, but a 1977 Lotus Esprit that transforms into a submarine. The movie used an actual Esprit for some of the underwater scenes and that car was subsequently lost to the public eye and only […]
Floaters and flashers – not just the least desirable things to find in a public restroom, but also signs that you could be going blind from inhaling too much welding and fiberglass fumes. The truth is that when you are doing a garage project you don’t pay attention to OSHA limits on fume inhalation, so […]
The terms land yacht and boat are used to describe big heavy American cars, typically those from the 1970s with huge hoods and under-damped suspension. They are known for handling like aquatic vehicles, where turning is an imprecise art involving the width of a shipping lane, but they typically don’t look much like actual boats. […]