Anybody living along the Lincoln Highway, keep an eye out for an UltraVan making its way westward. * Some of the mutant cars on the playa at Burning Man are simple conglomerations, others are stateme...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. If there’s any better indicator that we’ve reached peak Banksy, no less than three well-respected and long-established auction houses will go head-to-head-to-head with compet...
The folks at TravelEatWOD this week completed a Route 66 road trip in a wrought-iron Beetle. Their sunscreen expense must’ve matched their gas expense… * Esquire this week profiled Joe Ford, a car de...
Photo courtesy of Volkswagen of America. A documentary highlighting the efforts to recreate a piece of automotive art is now available for streaming on-demand at CuriosityStream. The Woodstock Bus te...
For perhaps the best coverage of the recent Citroen centennial bash, we have to look no further than Citroenvie! a huge conglomeration of Citroëns of every model. The assembly of Traction Avants alon...
A rare, numbers-matching 1953 Corvette, one of the “lost Corvettes.” Photo courtesy of Dream Car Restorations. Rescued by a group calling itself Corvette Heroes, 36 Corvettes (1953-’82 and 1984-’89) ...
Photo by Brian Bennett. Following up on a prior post about VW Beetles as art cars, John Heitmann at The Automobile and American Life spent some time this week discussing the one art car that made Vol...
Photo courtesy of Roush Performance. Ford Performance and Roush recently teamed up to create an aircraft-themed Mustang for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The custom muscle car wears livery that pays...
Its hard-working days are over, but this ’53 Chevy has a new job. Photos by the author. Walt Disney World, as we discovered on a recent trip, is filled with Chevrolets. It’s not just the Chevrolet Te...
Photos courtesy The Woodstock Bus project. When Bob Grimm paid Bob Hieronimus $1,000 in 1968 to paint up an 11-window Volkswagen bus for the former’s rock band, Light, neither could imagine that it w...
Jackie Harris’ “Fruitmobile.” Photo by Harrod Blank. All photos courtesy Houston Art Car Parade. This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of the Houston Art Car Parade, the largest art car parade in t...
Retired racer Tommy Kendall doesn’t know much about who painted a 1973 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight yellow and added a rooster head and tail to it, but he’s not complaining, as this Wall Street Journal st...
Carhenge, by Chris M. Morris. The U.S. is currently in the grip of eclipse mania, as the first visible solar eclipse in nearly a century will cut a swath from Oregon to South Carolina on Monday, Augu...
Perhaps not the easiest way to remove graffiti from a Moskvitch 412, but a group of street artists in Russia ingeniously turned it into a piece of “disappearing” street art with some clever paint wor...
Most art cars depend on plastic toys glued to their exterior surfaces to make a statement. Bruce Tomb’s Maria del Camino goes a little deeper, using a 1959 El Camino riddled with holes, mounted to ta...
Photo by Todd Lappin. Keith Haring’s artwork and design language remained fairly consistent throughout his brief career: simple, representative and bold line drawings rendered with limited palettes. ...
From Curbside Classic comes the interesting tail of an old-car owner who put his or her neighborhood vandals street artists to work preserving a ’61 Rambler American. Apparently the unidentified owne...
Don’t call it a rat rod! When a car guy or gal hears that term they think of something like the cars from Mad Max: Fury Road. A patina’d body is akin to the Japanese philosophy of sabi —the beauty th...
Photos courtesy University of Chicago, except where noted. How does one forget about a 1957 Cadillac? More puzzling, how does one forget about a 1957 Cadillac encased in concrete that, all told, weig...
Photos courtesy Tim Cunningham. They flew. They lit up the darkness. They did not, however – could not, in fact – drive under their own power, yet they remain some of the world’s best-known Trabants ...
There’s something missing from this video introduction to the early 1990s Yugo Next art exhibition that took place in New York City and that was comprised entirely of old Yugos repurposed into animat...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. The choice of the van was intentional. The pseudononymous street artist Banksy has claimed many a run-in with the police and made authoritarianism a common motif in his artwo...
Progress has claimed another old building with automotive ties: the former Studebaker dealership in downtown Akron, which has stood vacant for some time. According to the Akron Beacon-Journal, the ow...