I was flogging the big Mercedes as fast as it would go, considering I hadn’t a clue which way the course went, artfully dodging occasional cars, bicycles, and buses full of tourists. Beside me was my ...
Records show that Hitchcock ordered the car on May 20, 1958, eight days before his acclaimed film Vertigo would open in theaters. Delivery was exactly one month later. Hitchcock likely would have been ...
Some of you may think I have strict, scheduled plans for my weekly column fodder. But I assure you nothing could be further from the truth. Sometimes I mean to write up a car I really love—like a ...
The average price of a new car is $48,644, or about two-thirds of the U.S. median income. There are more than 300 million people in this country and about 16 million new cars are sold every year, yet ...
I have a cousin who is a powerhouse of a business owner, and is so crisply decisive about things that she makes me cringe at my tendency to obsess over insignificant decisions. Years back, she and her ...
Loop Road is a 23.5-mile detour that runs along the Tamiami Trail, which is otherwise known as U.S. Highway 41, and slices east-west across the Everglades at the southern tip of Florida. At one end—we ...
That heinous whine, heard off in the distance? Something sideways this way comes. It’s a Shelby muscle car, belting a V-8 power ballad from four-inch stainless steel exhaust tips. You know it, you ...
How do you like to take in the flowing form of a Ferrari Dino or the wedge-tastic lines of a Lotus Esprit? Do you hold your distance and try and see the car as a whole, appreciating its completeness ...
When I attended the Art Center College of Design at the original building on 3 rd Street in Los Angeles, I felt as if I had reached the first step to a long and fulfilling career in photography.
While not surprised, I am disappointed in how the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) new delivery vehicle has been mocked by car enthusiasts and the general public. Sure, it’s pretty ugly by the ...
It’s safe to say that most car people, and even a lot of non-car people, have heard of Pontiac. Even though the 84-year-old GM motor division went extinct in 2010, models like the GTO and Trans Am ...
The town of Perkasie, Pennsylvania, can trace its name back to a native Lenape tribe phrase that means “the place one goes to crack nuts.” Fitting, then, that this charming town, about 40 miles north ...