Category: Car and Driver

Chevy’s big, brash, potent, and pragmatic hauler is still gaining converts, 83 years in.

Peter Mullin won the Best of the Best award in its first year in 2015. Now, he’s won again.

What could go wrong?

I have three stories in this month’s issue of Car and Driver, a compendium celebrating that journal’s 750th issue. Click on the thumbnails above (and then click again) to view a crappy scan, or just buy the magazine on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.

The innovative Indiana carmaker that turned out to be (mostly) a scam.

Between 1968 and 1970, Datsun would introduce the 510 sedan, the 240Z sports car, and a new-generation compact pickup, all of which became legendary. Their predecessors, the cars you’d find in a Datsun store earlier in the 1960s? Not so much.

There were more than 50 American-made sports cars available in the years between the end of the war and the introduction of the Chevrolet Corvette in 1953. But perhaps none are as important or intriguing as the cars made by Sterling Edwards, even if he only managed to make about a half-dozen over as many years.

Ain’t nothin’ but a G thang, baby.
Three diff-locked G’s so we’re crazy.

The latest installment in my “Social History Of…” column for Car and Driver. Click on the thumbnail above (and then click again) to read a crappy scan, or just buy the magazine on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.

Just as a mortal cannot stroll into Giza and ride out onto the rivers of the Underworld in a funerary boat, a billionaire cannot pull up at the local Aston Martin dealer and simply write a check for the hyper-rare Valkyrie. They have to get on The List.

My feature story for the June, 2017 issue of Car and Driver. Click on the thumbnails above (and then click again) to read a crappy scan, or just buy the magazine on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.

We believe this was also the plot of an episode of “Yogi’s Gang,” but memory is as evanescent as art.