Exploring the pioneers of automotive styling, in the Motor City, before Harley Earl.

Praiseworthy lunatics are transforming GM’s final station wagon into street-devouring performance machines.

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Nostalgia is a potent elixir. This is particularly true in vintage-car purchases, where each generation, upon reaching middle age, becomes distanced enough from the horrors of their youth, and endowed with more than enough gelt to sustain themselves on ramen and Gallo, to be ensnared by splendidly horrible vehicles that were impossibly out of reach as new.

“By adopting sites that are used predominantly for advertising, Kruger challenges the viewer’s expectations and creates a powerful art experience.”

Proving once again that midwestern garages are a cryogenic laboratory for the preservation of oddball Big Three “Malaise Era” physical culture.

Two lavishly produced paeans to how automakers worked to accustom Americans to an infinite buying cycle, unrelated to product improvement, consumer benefit, or need.

In a new book, one of the country’s foremost collectors asks us to embrace wear and tear and the stories our well-loved vehicles can tell.

“When we shot it, I had to drive it all over East L.A. We probably looked crazy with two motorcycle cops following me. It looked like they were ready to pull me over,” Cartoon said, laughing. “Back in the day, you’d get hydraulic tickets for that. They’d impound your car for that. Now, the cops were making sure no one messed with me.”

A new book looks at Italy’s most famous carmaker, at the dawn of its Diamond Jubilee.

Each of these seven books will provide at least one hour of joy, which is more than can be said for the majority of our experiences these days.