#LongLivetheRoadster, and Apparently its Reveal

Believe me when I say I wanted to write a lovely little news bite about the 25th anniversary of the Mazda Miata, and the reveal of the fourth generation Miata MX5. I was as excited as any gearhead, set to watch the livestream of the reveal for the 2016 model, ready to...

How the Other Half Lives

The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is the Holy Grail of car shows.  Only the very best, rarest, and highest-valued cars may appear, and their owners must be invited to share their beauty with the crowd. Anyone can attend, however; at least, anyone with sufficient...

Dust is the New Black

It starts with the smell – moth balls and bad motor oil. The metallic taste of rust in the air dances with dust, floating around in sunbeams that have snuck in through cracks in the wood. You hesitate to touch the worn leather, but you do anyway. Fifty years of insect...

Swindell Hangs it Up… Sort of

The report out of Germantown, Tennessee, today is that Sammy Swindell, a  of Fame sprint car driver who has raced for 43 years, has decided to retire from racing, with one exception:  He still plans to race in the Chili Bowl Nationals each January, where he has a...

Don’t Be a Bulli, Give Us the Bus

In 1994 Volkswagen unveiled the Concept One, a modern nostalgia version of the classic Beetle. Just four years later, the New Beetle, as it was coined, went on sale for the masses. With a front engine configuration for safety, and and styling cues that would launch...

All the Cool Cars are Doing It

In the sleepy Boston suburb of Brookline, tucked up on a hill, the Larz Anderson Auto Museum hosts some of America’s oldest cars. The collection dates back to 1899, boasting Fiats, Renaults, and Lincolns, as well as cars from independent companies that barely saw the...