All images courtesy of Lego What to make of Lego? Is it a toy that speaks to the universal kid in all of us, offering endless creativity and play value? Is it a way to build a model, without fussing ...
The idea came from Porsche. Ferry Porsche wanted an entry-level Porsche that would give younger drivers affordable access to the Porsche world. The car that was subsequently developed and that reache...
George Walker operating the LaTosca radio-control car. Ford Media photos. Employers! Worried that your employees newly assigned to work from home during the coronavirus pandemic are just goofing off,...
SFers, look out for Ralph Ziman’s “ Spoek 1,” a former South African military vehicle that has been abandoned, restored, and decorated by Zulu, Shona and Ndebele artisans, which will appear at this w...
We are forever wondering how to get kids involved in the old-car hobby. The handwringing among the car enthusiast community is endless. How do we get kids involved? Who will love my favorite car when...
Building an engine is the pinnacle of automotive wrenching. Nothing else is so essential to the soul of a car. It’s a straightforward, yet intricate, puzzle. Putting an engine together correctly is m...
You can’t rush perfection, and it seems that perfection is exactly what model maker Ken Foran is after with his scratchbuilt 1/8-scale version of Tommy Ivo’s quad-engine dragster. We came across the ...
For the second year in a row, the Hot Wheels Legends Tour picked one car to be immortalized as a 1:64 scale die-cast toy car at the SEMA Show. This time around, the finalists came from 20 different c...
If you’ve read our story about the one-off 1973 Dodge Challenger presented to the winner of The Colonial, a Charles-Schwab-sponsored PGA Tour event held in Texas, you already know about how the car w...
Rugged cars meant to last decades and be easily repairable by just about anyone were just the ticket for Africa, thought Tony Howarth, whose 2CV-powered Africar showed promise but didn’t reach produc...
Courtesy of the Larz Anderson Auto Museum. The organizers at the Larz Anderson Museum will host a swinging good time to close out the summer. You are invited to bring your pre-WWII cars and period fa...
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of The Italian Job. While Butch Cassidy might have been king of the box office in 1969, Charlie Croker was the real anti-hero for lovers of cars and capers. Wit...
A California stop on the 2018 Hot Wheels Legends Tour. Photos courtesy Mattel. Last year, die-cast brand Hot Wheels celebrated its 50th anniversary with a 15-city tour and a build contest that immort...
All photos by the author. The Transformers toys, animated TV show, and live action/CGI movie franchise has been around a while, since the early 1980s. Heck, original Transformers toys are now legitim...
The Volkswagen Type 2a camper van, rendered entirely in Lego bricks. Photos courtesy f.r.e.e. and Messe Muenchen. Volkswagen’s 1968-’71 Type 2a camper van — sold on these shores as the Campmobile — i...
Radio controlled 2002 Nissan Skyline GT-R from Jada’s Fast and Furious collection. Photo courtesy Jada Toys. Some potentially interesting news for anyone who enjoys diecast and radio-controlled cars:...
Look, we know. We know how miserable it is outside this week. We also know that even if your garage is attached to the house, there’s a literal snowball’s chance that you’re gonna be in it, anytime s...
Photo courtesy Michael Paul Smith. Most modelers go about their work in private, fussy about the minutiae of their work but hardly cognizant of where the work fits into broader questions of purpose a...
The Jason Castriota-designed Chevrolet Corvette Mantide. Photos courtesy Aste Bolaffi. Nuccio Bertone received his dying wish: The company that carried his family name survived, at least in part, to ...
Photo courtesy Profiles in History. A long time ago, in the early days of the Internet, a misguided nerd wrote an article comparing the Millennium Falcon to a Chevrolet Nova. While the author made a ...
Hot Wheels Original 16 Display Set. Photo courtesy Mattel. Mattel’s eternal diecast brand may be celebrating a birthday, but collectors get the presents. Hot Wheels turned 50 years old in 2018; many ...
Images courtesy Artcurial. While Dustin Shuler’s “Spindle” literally skewered automobiles for the sake of art, Arman’s “Long Term Parking” took a more figurative approach to critiquing automobiles as...
If you’re reading this and have been poking around YouTube for the last, say, six years or so, there’s a good chance you may have stumbled across Headquake and his amazeballs radio-control scale repr...
Porsche 911 Safari! ’59 Dodge Coronet! Subaru SVX! ’75 Chevy Caprice! W123 Mercedes wagon! Photography by the author. The Matchbox “Gathering of Friends,” held each July in Albuquerque, has come and ...
As if it weren’t cool enough to put a pulse jet on a scooter, artist Randy Regier decided to gin up an entire backstory to the Grand Thrust Star 100, complete with “vintage” photos, a kit, and toy re...