10+ parts and task management list tips to help with your project

Posted on Jan 25, 2022 in Featured | 2 comments

Here is an example of my Microsoft Excel engine compartment worksheet for my Buick shown on the desktop along with a couple of in-process car restoration photos just to make it more interesting to look at for the blog. My columns are broken down by “Work Type,” “Task,” “Parts Location” at my house and/or box number, “Status or Completion Date,” “Notes” and...

Chrysler 200 Demand Dries Up As FCA Tries To Clear 200 Inventory Glut

Posted on Jan 24, 2022 in Editorials | 1 comment

The plan was straightforward. With demand for conventional midsize cars gradually decreasing and buyers in Fiat Chrysler’s U.S. showrooms increasingly turning to flexible Jeep SUVs, Chrysler 200 production would be temporarily shut down. Inventory was piling up. Inventory needed to be cleared out. Rather than build more sedans, which would simply be piled up on...

Style and Hollywood

Posted on Jan 23, 2022 in Antique | Comments Off on Style and Hollywood

Only fashion fades, style remains the same – Coco Chanel Steve McQueen and his Ferrari Lusso Recently I was looking at one of those celebrity car sites, and was struck by the fact that none of the people listed were famous. Everyone on the site was a “wanna be” rapper, a Z-list reality star, or a drugged out bad girl. Every picture had them either standing next...

Small Community Home to Vital Ford Testing

Posted on Jan 21, 2022 in Technology | 1 comment

Old Man Winter is not the most enjoyable companion and for those living where snowfall is common, it’s only a matter of time. If the rush of pumpkin spice, peppermint, cinnamon flavored everything wasn’t a sign of winter approaching, certinately the endless array of holiday romance movies, adorning my Netflix account are. Danielle informed me her holiday movie...

Opel GT Concept: From Dream To Reality

Posted on Jan 18, 2022 in Concept | Comments Off on Opel GT Concept: From Dream To Reality

Back few days, when I was writing about the Opel GT Concept, I was thinking how would it look on road. Today, Opel made my dreams come true and released a short film with it. Before its world premiere, at Geneva Motor Show, Opel presents its latest concept in a meaningful video. Starting as a dream, the car gradually takes shape, passing into the real life....

Toyota Gets Serious About Performance with TMG Line

Posted on Jan 14, 2022 in Racing | 2 comments

The words “Toyota” and “performance” aren’t often spoken in the same sentence these days. Toyota, though, is getting serious about building performance cars, as the Lexus LFA, Lexus IS Fand Scion FR-S are tearing up tracks and backroads across the world. Now, it seems Toyota may want to take things even further by creating performance versions of existing...

Would You Trust a Self-Driving Car?

Posted on Jan 12, 2022 in Safety | Comments Off on Would You Trust a Self-Driving Car?

For the first time, a Google self-driving car is at fault for causing an accident. On Valentine’s Day a Lexus RX 450h with Google’s self-driving technology leaned in a little too close to a city bus in Mountain View, California. The two vehicles collided at low speed. Google has acknowledged at least 17 other accidents involving its cars, but this is the first...

Are Convertibles Worth the Safety Risk?

Posted on Jan 11, 2022 in Safety | Comments Off on Are Convertibles Worth the Safety Risk?

Yesterday we drove Highway 1 in California from San Simeon to Monterey. This is the most beautiful segment of the most beautiful road in America, but one thing started driving me crazy: One in ten cars that passed in the opposite direction was either a red convertible Camaro orMustang. That’s no exaggeration. I don’t know if there’s either a rental place that...

Would You Buy This Damaged Land Rover?

Posted on Jan 10, 2022 in Safety | Comments Off on Would You Buy This Damaged Land Rover?

What a short attention span we have in this world today. Less than a month ago, we wrote about the Hoegh Osaka. Remember that? If you’re anything like me, you’ll read that name and it’ll sound vaguely familiar, but you won’t remember why. Let me remind you: The ship was carrying around 1,200 Jaguars and Land Rovers before tilting dangerously and running aground...