Exile in Portales

Fords... The full explanation and more examples of "elastic cars" are here . Speaking of "elasticity"... ...

Ooooh... shiny! Preliminary and limited specs, from the ATS-V web page : The car's made out of unobtainium, at least where YrH...

More from old car brochures ... these illustrating the 1952 Lincoln.  I was struck less by the car and more by the depiction of what "...

Aretha! I'd take that ride in her pink Cadillac, wouldn't even think twice. Speaking of pink Cadillacs, this: I'm r...

Go vote!  Mr. Gorrell, from the Usual Source of these things, has sumthin' to say about that: I agree with him. And then there...

The Public Radio world, and a LOT of the rest of us, suffered a loss today.  From NPR's web site: Photo credit: NPR Tom Magliozzi...

Constant Correspondent and Occasional Reader Lin sends along the following: Thought you might enjoy seeing your first car ad. This is...

Well, this is most interesting (read the whole piece from the Hemmings Daily here ): Fun?  I dunno.  I've never driven a Deux Che...

Some linkage and a video... There's this , to begin with. I'm actually rather embarrassed about my results, what with only ...

From an article in the Hemmings Daily Newsletter ...  There's a lot to like in this film... the cars, the styles, the attitude, and...

This can't be real... ... and it's not.  But watching this made my blood pressure soar.   Talk about "close calls"......

My money was on the F1 car before this even started... I watched this all the way through, given I'm something of a gear-head and m...

This is the first and prolly the last time I'll ever post a tune from Bob Seger.  Herewith "Detroit Made:" I wanted to po...

So, there I was... reviewing the monthly OnStar report those kind folks at GM send me on a monthly basis.  One metric the OnStar folks prov...

I saw this in Hemmings Daily e-mail today... That tugs at the ol' heartstrings.  I had a 320i in the wayback and loved that car.  ...

Literally... I found this fascinating and watched the vid at least four times. In other news... we went to bed (well, "went to c...

A video included in an article in Hemming's daily newsletter (screen shot above): The article about Milford fired off a few lon...

Does this look familiar? That would be SN2 and DIL Alisa, standing next to their new-to-them 1990 Corvette.  SN2 called me Friday even...

First... Heh.  Hillary is such an EASY target yet I suspect we'll get awfully damned tired of her before 2016 is done and gone. ...

The 1962 Earls Court motor show, from an old Pathé newsreel: Nearly all of those marques are gone now, save Lotus, Jaguar, and Bentley...