Driving Old Lamborghinis
Written by Brett, Posted in Hemmings
Lamborghini has been losing its mind for 60 years. I drive a litany of cars from its history to prove this.
Saturday
June 2023
Written by Brett, Posted in Hemmings
Lamborghini has been losing its mind for 60 years. I drive a litany of cars from its history to prove this.
Monday
July 2022
Written by Brett, Posted in Hemmings
In my youth, in the Malaise Era Detroit of the 1970s and 1980s, a tachometer was a rare sight. This was, in part, because nearly everybody in the Motor City still drove American cars back then and domestic cars, even ostensible performance cars like my brother’s 1978 Pontiac Firebird or my friend’s manual-transmission Ford Tempo, didn’t have a tach. I find out why.
Monday
June 2022
Written by Brett, Posted in Hemmings
How Buick’s Secret Skunkworks GNX Turbo’d Everything in the 80s/90s, Including an Electra Wagon and a RWD Reatta
Thursday
March 2022
Written by Brett, Posted in Hemmings
“They said, women aren’t buying. I said, you’re not inviting them,” Sisson said emphatically. “Men show up, women need to be invited.”
Friday
February 2021
Written by Brett, Posted in Hemmings
With its extraordinarily fast front windshield angle, its rounded box passenger compartment, its blacked-out roof, and its injected-molded plastic body panels, the Lumina APV looked more like a Syd Mead concept for an Eighties sci-fi thriller than a GM design for an Eighties suburban hauler.
Saturday
August 2020
Written by Brett, Posted in Hemmings
For all of the reasons, but especially the shit-talking.
Tuesday
April 2020
Written by Brett, Posted in Hemmings
“V-12 is the top level of engineering you can imagine,” says Reggiani. “A V-12 is born to be like a singer.”
Monday
March 2020
Written by Brett, Posted in Hemmings
A wholly subjective list, that obviously includes the Camargue.
Thursday
February 2020
Written by Brett, Posted in Hemmings
“Besides being cheap to buy? I don’t think there’s anything particularly special about them.”