Free Wallpaper Friday

This photograph is an ‘86 GMC Wrangler half-ton pickup, turned pro-street racer.  Even though it looks like it belongs on the drag strip, this extra short truck is fully street legal. 1024 x 764 – For them old fashioned monitors 1280 x 764 – For them newfangled widescreen monitors Don’t forget to check out the [...]

What the heck is a rat rod?

They’re everywhere.  Every time you pick up the paper or turn on the TV news, there they are.  They’re a disgrace to our culture, a drag on our society, and they’re just plain trash.  Our world would be so much better off without them. Buzzwords, that is.  Those so-called “cute” mutations of useful words that [...]

There’s Bad, There’s Badass, and There’s Paulo’s Mustang

Full Disclosure:  Aside from blogging about cars every week, I also write professionally-or at least as professional as I get-for Canadian Hot Rods & Classics, a Victoria, BC magazine that covers every aspect of the hot rodding scene in Canada.  Being that CHRC is one of a very few print magazines that’s thriving in Canada [...]

John Scheel’s “Identity Crisis” Thunderbird

It’s a beautiful August day, perfect for taking in a car show.  As you wander up and down the rows of cars, you notice what a clean 1950 Ford coupe this is: That’s when you start to think “Such smooth bodywork, with the sexy post-war curves mellowed out just enough.  And the way the owner [...]

History Of The Corvette Part 7: Why?

When we started this series on the history of the Corvette, we asked you, the reader, to name a car that’s had the lasting power of the Corvette.  Although some of you may have tried, the truth is that you can’t–there has never been a model in the short history of the automobile that has [...]