For nearly a decade the Murphy Auto Museum in Oxnard has been having a show featuring vintage travel trailer. One of the best features of the show is that most of the campers are open for attendees to go inside. This year the show expanded and was held at the performing arts center in downtown […]
RadWood is a car show and festival of everything that was awesome, tubular and gnarly from the 80s and early 1990s. I did not had a car or bike to bring this year, but I did have a pair of black and day-glo orange raver pants, and a Lollapalooza 1991 T-shirt to wear, plus my […]
In conjunction with the High Art of Riding Low exhibit downstairs at the Petersen, their monthly breakfast meet was dedicated to lowriders as well. Hundreds of people and about 100 cars showed up to enjoy some coffee and bagels on the upper deck of the museum parking garage. Perhaps the oddest duck there was my […]
About once every six months, Pelican Parts, a well known place to get mostly German car parts, holds a cars and coffee meet at a mall in Palos Verdes, California. I got to this late and did not get pictures of a lot of the awesome stuff that was there, but here is what I […]
Van Nuys Blvd used to be the place to cruise in the San Fernando Valley north of L.A. For a long time it went away, but now its back ever 3rd Wednesday night all summer long. Some of these are from my cell phone (LG G5), some from an old and nearly dead Pentax digital point […]
By the time you read this U-Pick-Parts and Aalden Brothers in Sun Valley will have shuffled off to the great big trash heap in the sky. Between the all import lot where you could always find weird French and Italian cars, and the everything lot (no kidding, even boats, semis, RVs and motorcycles) next door, […]
If you, like me, never graduated from the ball peen hammer, Bondo and rattle can primer school of auto body repair, you are not alone. In my writing for Eastwood and visit to the SEMA show I discovered this classic how to manual on shaping metal called The Key to Metal Bumping by Martin Tool […]
Went to the gym today at my lunch hour (or two) and coming out I thought I was hallucinating. Could it be? I thought these had all died out years ago! And in such great shape! Surely not just the nicest one with wood grain on its flanks, but one of the nicest ones left, […]
A friend sent me this recent shot of a Camry “Collector Edition” Yes, the best selling car in the country for the last 30 years, and someone somewhere (the dealer? Toyota USA?) thought they could move a few more units by slapping “Collector Edition” decals all over it. Once again the Onion is more real […]
Back in June of 2011 I spotted this off-road ready Mercedes Benz Gazelle replica kit car in the parking lot of the junk yard. Well, today I saw it cruising down the street and it appears to have sprouted a full off road spec roll cage since the last time I saw it.