Fabulous Furniture on 28

Live Edge Furniture • Space Age Sculpture • Cutting Edge Automobile Design. Steve Heller started Fabulous Furniture in 1973. We do all our own logging, and many of these trees have “defects” that produce incredible grain patterns. He does the milling, sawing and...

Bill Bravo Automotive Portraits

Bill Bravo creates photographic portraits of classic automobiles that are custom-designed expressly for the owner of the car. The cars are all photographed outdoors, and the portrait designs are created in Photoshop. He’ll remove background clutter, and then...

Chicago Car Culture – Year in Review

For those of you who don’t know me, I am somewhat of a fan of all things automotive. This is both a massive understatement and probably a bit obvious at this point. Last year, I made the decision to move from my hometown in upstate New York to Chicago. The first...

Donald Trump in the Driver’s Seat?

It didn’t take long.  Less than two days after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, the major automakers are making a play for regulatory relief under a Trump administration. Specifically, on November 10 the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers sent a...

The Turkey Night Grand Prix: This Week in Motorhead History

On Thanksgiving night in 1934, with no football on television, Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles played host to the then-emerging sport of midget auto racing, and the Turkey Night Grand Prix was born. This Thanksgiving night, while most of America is under the influence...

Hagerty’s Hershey Swap to Street Challenge Holds Court

Since 1955, the Antique Automobile Club of America’s Hershey Region has been host to the AACA’s Eastern Division Fall Meet, which grew rapidly and organically into the world’s largest automotive swap meet.  Your correspondent first attended in 1970 (yes, I am the...