I noticed an article the other day that famous Porsche collector Magnus Walker was selling his 26,000 square-foot LA Arts District warehouse/creative space for something on the order of $20 million USD. Perhaps now he can afford clothes and a haircut so he doesn’t look like unhoused, but don’t count on it. Anyway, you might […]
If having one Peugeot 504 in your yard makes you a weirdo, then what does it mean if you have 5? A connoisseur? A Francophile? Does the word Francophile come from the similar francopile? Je ne sais pas. Find this collection of 1980s Peugeot 504 (504s?) offered for $8,000 for the entire collection. Is that […]
Is it a good sign or a bad sign when someone sells his entire fleet of cars? On the one hand you get a ton of spare parts to keep the “good” car running…but on the other hand…you NEED a ton of spare parts cars to keep the “good” one running….sheesh. It is also an […]
The Volkswagen Golf was introduced in 1974 as a replacement to the 36 year old Beetle (Type 1) and sold like salty pretzels at Oktoberfest, with over 6 million of the front-drive compacts leaving worldwide factories through 2009. For the first few years, the Giorgetto Giugiaro (of ItalDesign – noted for his work on the […]
I’m gonna come clean with everyone here and admit that I wasn’t familiar with the name Paul Normand, until yesterday. But, Paul isn’t a Carroll Shelby or John DeLorean character who worked with big budgets, and instead is an old time hot rodder who cranks out a few cars a year. The result is that […]
On the top of my list of my favorite unpronounceable automobile manufacturer names sits something from Korea called Ssangyong. Do I pronounce the second “s” if there is only one? Maybe, but what does it sound like when you’ve got 49 of them sitting in a dirt lot sans powertrains? Find this lot of 49 […]