Stuck in quarantine, your author has had time to rewatch The Sopranos for the first time since its initial run on HBO from 1999-2007. (It uses my ancestral homeland of New Jersey as a backdrop, and m...
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 ...
GM Lean Machine. Photo courtesy GM Media. Frank Winchell never liked the name “Lean Machine,” as GM called the three-wheeled concept vehicle that it showed off in 1982. To him, it was the cambering v...
“ Drive Buddy Boy! ” by Ben Addison. The images of cars in motion that Ben Addison paints come across as both familiar and jarring. Sure, the settings, the lighting, even the cars themselves tickle a...
Cussler in 2017 with his 1949 Packard Eight Station Sedan. Photo courtesy the Cussler family. That old cars are time machines and ready catalysts for fantasy is well known to enthusiasts, but the sto...
F9: The Fast Saga is coming this summer, and the first preview came out last weekend. Yes, at this point The Fast and the Furious is basically a superhero movie franchise with cars as a loose backdro...
With a successful box office run and four Oscar nominations, Ford v Ferrari proved that movie audiences do like car flicks, even if the events of the film don’t precisely match Ford’s quest to domina...
Photo credit: Mecum If they show up at all when their car’s being sold, most sellers don’t bother showing up until the day the hammer drops for good. It’s a different story for Sean Kiernan. After al...
A rendering of what part of the proposed museum would look like. The plan includes a functional drive-in restaurant patterned on Burge’s, one of the turnarounds on the Modesto cruise route of the ’50...
Did you ever want to own KITT? No, the other KITT, but still an actual KITT and not a clone. This is the car from the 2008 TV movie that turned into the single-season, 17 episode series. It’s a 2008 ...
A while back, I confessed that, in order to take my mind off of seeing cars every minute of every day, I like to sit back and enjoy a little professional wrestling on TV. I started when I was 12, wat...
While the rest of the publishing world is still sorting out what the closure of 19 print titles over at TEN (though some will still live on as digital-only titles) means for print magazines in genera...
With every new Ghostbusters film, it seems we’re introduced to yet another incarnation of the Ecto-1, perhaps the world’s most famous Cadillac-based hearse. Except the latest version, as seen in the ...
Chevrolet Suburban in “Harry and the Hendersons.” Image via IMCDB. It’s a publicity stunt, of course, but Hollywood now gives out Walk of Fame stars to vehicles as well as people, animals, Muppets, a...
Stranger Things is set before this station wagon should have a CHMSL. No, I can’t get over it. I have a hard time simply watching a TV show or a movie and immersing myself in a fictional world. For e...
Photo credit: Fox Entertainment Group Does America champion the underdog? The pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps tales of the little guy making it big, the evergreen story of heart and determination...
Ford v Ferrari is a story that’s been a long time coming—in fact, it’s been over 53 years since Ford beat Ferrari at Le Mans. It took that long to take the bones of that story and bring it to the big...
Bringing back the Milwaukee Mile As we wrote earlier this year, the push to bring professional racing back to the Milwaukee Mile has been building momentum, and Milwaukee Magazine recently checked in...
Today’s daily briefing covers the origin story of the plaid seats in the Volkswagen GTI, what happens when a 2017 Ford GT turns into a used car, and what James Bond will be driving in his next movie....
Images via OldCarBrochures.com Around 1966, my wife Doris, our daughter Annette, our son Dewayne and I went to see the movie The Great Race , starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Natalie Wood. The ...
Photos courtesy Profiles in History, except where noted. For appearing in one episode of a 50-year-old television show, Grampa Munster’s Dragula has gone on to inspire a disproportionate following, b...
The “Bullitt” Mustang, a 1968 fastback, as shown at the 2018 North American International Auto Show. Photo by Ronan Glon. The Highland Green 1968 Mustang fastback that starred alongside Steve McQueen...
Elvis Presley’s 1973 Lincoln Continental Limousine, courtesy of Kruse GWS Auctions. The staff at Kruse GWS Auctions announces a collection of “Artifacts of Hollywood & Music” auction to take place at...
Modena Design GT Spyder California. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a 1986 John Hughes coming-of-age comedy, made stars of actor Matthew Broderick and a relatively obscure F...