“It sounds like not a brilliant story.”
BMW Re-Creates its Lost 1970 Garmisch Concept, with Help from Marcello Gandini
If you think the exterior is weird, check out the interior. The shifter boot looks like a baba au rhum.
Silicon Wadi
Haulin’ Oates
“I’ve gone through the collecting phase in the ’80s, when I had about nine or 10 cars,” Oates says. “But now, I’m kind of in the mode where if I don’t drive it and enjoy it, I’m not going to keep it.”
Last Chance to Visit Something You Didn’t Know Existed
Go soon, this month, before the whole thing is sold off. (Did I mention that one of Liberace’s cars is there?)
The Little-Known Tale of the Only African-American Carmaker
Patterson-Greenfield was the largest black-owned manufacturing company in the United States.
Inside the World’s Most Valuable Hot Wheels Collection
“The disease has metastasized,” Bruce Pascal says as we enter a former fabric warehouse in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, which he has christened the East Coast Hot Wheels Museum.
Startup Derby
The Social History of the Toyota Supra
The 4th installment in my Car and Driver print series exploring the roots and meaning of an iconic, long-running automotive nameplate. This round covers four generations of the Toyota Supra.
Click on the thumbnail (and then click again) to view a crappy scan, or just buy the magazine on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.
The Orphan Chronicles V: Tulsa Automobile Corporation
Its first cars were unveiled in a bizarre ceremony in the lobby of the grand Hotel Tulsa, downtown. Potential customers, investors, and other interested parties were invited to the festivities, where the vehicles were christened by a young woman with a bottle of Tulsa-made gasoline. We hope that cigar smoking was discouraged.