Photo: Le Mans Retired French racing driver Hervé Poulain is the father of the “Art Car,” having commissioned Alexander Calder to paint a BMW 3.0 CSL for the 1975 24 Hours of Le Mans. Since then BMW has created nearly two dozen different Art Cars, some of which were fielded at Le Mans by Poulain, … Read more
As a Los Angeles County native, we always referred to visiting Orange County as crossing the orange curtain because of the stark shift in political tendencies. We know things work a bit differently in OC, but that’s no excuse for the wacky convertible conversions that come out of Newport Convertible Engineering in Huntington Beach, California. … Read more
Photo: Schneider2001, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Dodge demon. Not that one, this one: This wasn’t some Vision “concept” that’s no more than lines of code and MAYBE a clay model, that only idiots think ever had a chance at production. This was production ready, and cancelled because 2008. If it made it … Read more
With its pop-up headlamps in the front and a luggage rack in the back, today’s Nice Price or No Dice 200SX is a bastion of earlier times and designs. Let’s see if its price is just as old school. Jonathan Bennett And His Late 1980’s Honda Accord | My First Car Range anxiety isn’t a … Read more
A few weeks ago we talked about cars that looked dumb, but that doesn’t necessarily mean their owners are dummies themselves. That got me thinking: What cars are only driven by idiots? What cars are driven by the sort of people who can only breathe with their mouths wide open and their knuckles dragging on … Read more
I don’t know about anyone else, but I love a good sleeper car. It’s always hilarious to slap other drivers in the face with power and performance from an otherwise innocuous car. More than a few automakers have given us factory sleepers before, and two sleeper models from Cadillac are getting too cheap to ignore … Read more
Image: BMW Renowned American sculptor Alexander Calder was the first artist to put pen to paper in the effort to create an art car for BMW. Commissioned by racing driver Hervé Poulain, the original 3.0 CSL art car was little more than a used racing car by the time it reached Calder’s studio. That chassis … Read more
While nearly 40 years old, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Maserati has apparently only covered a little more than 20,000 miles. Let’s see if its price proves just as appreciably low. Jon Cryer’s First Car Came From A Film Set Based on the comments, there was little discord surrounding the desirability of yesterday’s impeccably … Read more
