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The Spy Who Jag'd Me
It has been years since I've stopped and thought about the Austin Powers film series, but this past weekend I passed a “Shaguar” in front of Walmart, of all places. There really isn't any car that is less of a Walmart car than the Jaguar E-Type, and this one had the same Union Jack design that Mike Myers' character had custom painted [...]
Why did the Chicken cross the Type 2?
Apparently we are a VW minibus family. I always pictured myself as a four-wheel-drive rock crawler or European race driver, but my sister and my dad think otherwise. Our clan is rather quirky and irreverent, and to this point, they bought my son a kids battery-powered VW Type 2 for Christmas last year and forever cemented his hippie status. Unlike the [...]
Lightning McQueen and the Dream for an IROC-Z T-TOP
My 3-year-old son is a diehard fan of Lightning McQueen from the Disney Pixar film Cars. I probably didn't even need to tell you that. After all, asking if a 3-year-old – or pretty much any kid in general, if we're being perfectly honest – likes Cars is akin to asking if a bear poops in the woods or [...]
Embarrassing Car Stories
We've all done it. Some of us even got away with it. But more often than not, we got busted.I'm talking embarrassing car stories, and do I know some great ones.My mom was 15 when she snuck out and borrowed my grandad's precious 240Z to drive to the grocery store and buy a pack of [...]
Generation WRX: The Modern 2002
A few weeks ago, my best friend finally took the plunge. No, he didn't get married – he and his wife have been together since high school – though this particular platform is one that nearly everyone in our group of friends has been climbing, approaching the edge of, and then carefully backing down from for almost as long as [...]
Fast, Furious, and Family
The Fast and the Furious films are to car culture what Spongebob Squarepants is to marine biology. They are manic, cartoonish representations of actual driving but if you can suspend disbelief for 90 minutes and take them as blistering, bare-knuckle, action-packed entertainment, they are furiously entertaining. Most people either love or hate the [...]
Porsche 356: An Undying Classic
I know this is a car blog, but I have to vent. Thanks to the wonders of Netflix, my wife has roped me into binge-watching the entire run of The Vampire Diaries. If you somehow managed to dodge the teen-vampire Twilight bullet, consider yourself lucky; I'm taking one for the team. The show follows [...]
Nov, 1st, 1982. Honda starts manufacturing cars in America.
Today in 1982, Honda became the first Asian Auto Company to manufacture cars in USA with the Honda Accord.A Quick HistoryIn 1937 Soichiro Honda got his start by crafting piston rings for the Japanese automaker Toyota under the company name, Eastern Sea Precision Machine Company. By the 1940’s Honda was helping Toyota in the production [...]
Audi's 40 Years of the Five-Cylinder Engine and the Audi Quattro
While Audi celebrates '40 Years of the Five-Cylinder Engine' check out our customer's 1984 Audi Quattro. Born from the idea of chassis engineer Jörg Bensinger who had just seen the Volkswagen's Iltis, the Audi Quattro grew out of the Audi 80 and into the "first sports car with permanent all-wheel drive" (The UK quattro Network). [...]
The BMW 633CSi
In the 1970’s BMW was working on the 3.0 CS replacement. Originally wanting to go taller, VP Bob Lutz proposed an alternate lower path. The BMW 6 Series. Production started in 1976 with the 630 CS (CS stand for Coupe Sport) and the more powerful 633 CSi. The 633 CSi sported a 3.3 liter straight-six [...]
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