Henry Ford, undoubtedly, helped to shape the automobile industry and the peoplescape of southeast Michigan with his offer of a $5 per day wage in 1914. It more than doubled the existing wages and led...
What’s more awesome than an early Fox-body Mustang? An early Fox-body Mercury Capri, of course! And to celebrate the auction we’re hosting of one very cool and very red-pleathered, t-topped, low-mile...
As pointed out in this Vox video exploring what made Route 66 America’s favorite road, the highway has essentially been defunct for twice as long as it was an active part of American transportation r...
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...
When we were looking around and talking about our lead story this week, we got to talking about the idea of the parts-getter. The swapmeet hauler. The pickup truck. And when we listed the rare-as-hen...
The Ford Taurus, as Tofer discusses in this video on the origins and development of the Eighties hit, may very well have saved the bacon of a carmaker then shedding a billion dollars a year, but it w...
We know that Ronan Glon at RanWhenParked has a good eye for unusual European cars of the Eighties, Nineties, and beyond, so we’re always happy to see his coverage of local European events like the re...
OK – full disclosure, here: we may have tested your patience last week with a truly terrible movie. But look, there’s some beauty in a bad movie. If you can suspend reality for an hour or so and let ...
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...
In Episode 2 of In the Shop with StanceWorks, Mike takes us "From Then to Now" with a brief look back at the history of his E36 and its current condition as its prepped for a complete build overhaul....
Do we have a treat for you, this week: a terrible movie! Look, there’s an art to a bad movie. It takes a certain amount of intestinal fortitude to actually endure it from one end to the other, but li...
Dieter Deswarte doesn’t care about the Lada’s development, where it was built, how much power its engine was good for. Instead, as we see in his short film, “ Lada,” he’s more concerned with where th...
Why did Nissan recently celebrate the 50th anniversaries of the Z and the GT-R at a rest stop? As Ben Hsu at Japanese Nostalgic Car noted, the rest stop wasn’t on just any old highway. That’s because...
So, this week, we’ve been all about the Riviera: 1st-gen, 2nd-gen and all the rest. Well, there might’ve been a few years there in the ’80s we could probably forget about, but hey – Z Cavariccis and ...
Lowriding is commonly depicted as a Mexican-American or latinx pasttime, and while it certainly grew out of those communities, it has become a worldwide phenomenon with adherents as far away as Swede...
This life we live…this old car stuff…it’s full of heroes. Lots of larger-than-life personalities who weren’t going out without a fight. Plenty of characters drawn to the glory built-in to speed machi...
Of all the people involved in motorsport over the last century plus, Jack Brabham may have best encapsulated the sport. He could compete in the highest echelons of racing as a driver, no doubt about ...
We’re on a vintage Olds Power jag this week, folks. And we’re not even sorry. Nor should we be, right? When it comes to all things Muscle, we’d submit that we spend way too much time limiting ourselv...
Here at Muscle Machines Weekly, we’re all about, well, muscle. And one of the things we love more than most – the stuff we look forward to…what gets us outta bed in the morning…is finding the oddball...
While I'm slow to rummage through my photos and edit, Jim Bob Barnett has already put together video highlighting our recent trip to Colorado. Every year, the StanceWorks Off Road family gets togethe...
The Mustang might be Lee Iacocca ‘s most celebrated success, but honestly, Ford probably has never leaned on the pony car for its survival. The K car, however, kept Chrysler solvent through the Eight...
Does anybody look back fondly on the Reliant Robin? Not Martin Gurdon, who wrote about his rather brief experience owning one for Influx: The starter motor sounded sluggish, making slow churning nois...
Jeep’s Surrey model didn’t form in a pink-lined vacuum. Rather, as CJ3B.info points out, Toledo took a cue from the 100 or so Jeeps that served the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco. Compared to the new ...
If you’re here, you’re probably into muscle cars. If you’re into vintage muscle cars, you’re probably a drag racing fan. And if you dig the Digs, you probably have a soft-spot for vintage dragsters, ...
When we stumbled across the survivor Starsky & Hutch Torino in the Hemmings online marketplace this week, we got to thinking more about the love/hate relationship we have with the nameplate. On one h...