Ken Gross, a veteran automotive writer and historian, has worked tirelessly to elevate automotive design into the realm of capital-A Art. His latest exhibit is at the Frist Museum in Nashville. Come for the BATs, stay for the Braques and Brancusis.
Look! (Or Look Away!)
My first video for The Drive is live. (Fortunately, the Classic Car Club Manhattan dominates the frame.)
Aston Martin Raises a Double Bubble (In My Pants)
The newly unveiled Vanquish Zagato vanquishes all comers in the GT market.
Watch a Rolls Decompose
Rainer Kellers stunning art series Machine Overdrive is a acid-colored fantasia of Malaise-era automotive decay. (And you can buy one, affordably.)
BMW Builds a “Yacht”
We call it a platform, Fresh says of the carbon fiber assemblage, which resembles two overturned canoes linked by a raft and tethered to a giant nylon feather, The namesyacht, shiphavent quite caught up with the technology.
Basquiat, Warhol, Rauschenberg, and Ruscha go for a Drive
“America is too big, its spirit too irrepressible, to be constrained by portraits, landscapes, or even abstraction. So for many American artists, the automobile is more than inspiration. It is a talisman; not just a part of the art, but the subject and the medium.”
Antonio Sabato Jr. Takes Off His Clothes (Again)
90s underwear heartthrob Antonio Sabato Jr. has joined the Las Vegas cast of the Chippendales. So I was contractually obligated to interview him about his car collection, his most embarrassing car moment, and his signature stripper move.
Hearing is Believing
Schelpping, With Baggage
Family conveyances may change. Family is immutable.
How to Buy a Lamborghini
Step one: get rich. Step two: call Brett.
Click on the thumbnail, and then click again, to view a crappy scan. Or just buy a superyacht and get a subscription to ShowBoats for free from your unctuous yacht salesman, you chintzy bitch.