I am nine years old. My legs slide across the hot black vinyl back seat of our classic Thunderbird, as we stare over the enormous shining trunk to watch my dad, cursing with tools in hand, at the strange wood and metal shopping cart-based contraption currently splayed...
The rolling golf courses and stretches of Pacific Coast Highway One are best suited to the Ferrari racecars of international rallies, the hills of Carmel to the BMW speedsters and one-off European concept cars, the Quail Lodge a host for turn of the century coaches,...
Elzie Wylie Baker, Jr., better known to racing fans as Buddy Baker, died this week at age 74, taken down by lung cancer. Baker was one of NASCAR’s early superstars, scoring dramatic victories on NASCAR fastest tracks, including the 1980 Daytona 500. His average speed...
Sometimes I have a hard time explaining what I do for a living. I’m (at times) a writer, so this should be a fairly legitimate concern. When I tell people I work for a company that makes hot rod parts they either give me a blank stare, or proceed to ask more questions...
Between small colorful houses, tucked away just off the highway, where the streets roll and rise like the lesser hills of San Francisco, one can find themselves, if they are lucky, before an innocuous, beige building. It is the kind that never seems to be the...
Not long ago, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced a plan to spin off Ferrari, and part of that plan was to sell ten percent of the iconic automaker via a stock sale. This week, that phase drew closer with FCA having filed for an initial public offering on the New...
