The Internet Pricing Bait and Switch

Posted on May 25, 2020 in Editorials | 1 comment

The Internet brings transparency to the car buying process and allows us to search the whole country for our favorite car. While shopping for a WRX a few months ago, I got quotes from dealers as far as 1,500 miles away. I ended up skipping the local dealers and travelling to a dealer 80 miles away in order to get the best price. Leaving your immediate...

Bad Gas Mileage or Lack of Common Sense?

Posted on May 20, 2020 in Safety | Comments Off on Bad Gas Mileage or Lack of Common Sense?

I have a family member who doesn’t know anything about cars. I mean that quite literally, so the fact that she routinely sits behind the wheel of one is more than a little frightening. Allow me to correct myself: This is a person who knows one thing about cars. She knows that they go. She knows how to make them go, how to make them “not go” (her words for stop)...

Porsche to Revive the 550 Spyder; New 911 Pics and Specs

Posted on May 12, 2020 in Racing | 3 comments

“I can imagine that such a modern version of the famous ‘James Dean’ Porsche would be well-received by our customers. The new model will not be retro-styled.” Thus spake Matthias Mueller, Porsche’s CEO, confirming that a new version of the iconic 550 Spyder will be built. James Dean, famous film actor in the 1950s, loved racing and prepared one of the 90 550s...

A Sight to See: Land Rover’s Virtually Transparent Hood

Posted on May 9, 2020 in Technology | 1 comment

If you are following news of a Land Rover Discovery concept vehicle being readied for a New York International Auto Show debut later this month, you might have noticed the integration of the world “Vision” into the show platform. Thinking this world merely represented what would be a “vision” for the company’s future design path, Land Rover has now unveiled new...

Local Car Shows

Posted on Apr 26, 2020 in Antique | Comments Off on Local Car Shows

Today I decided to finally add some of the pictures I had taken at local car shows. There seems to be a show every night of the week, and the pictures are starting to pile up. Most of them are from smaller shows in my area, but a few are from the massive Foxboro “Patriots Place” show that happens every other week. I love going to the shows because I like to...

Be Honest: Are You a Distracted Driver?

Posted on Apr 17, 2020 in Safety | Comments Off on Be Honest: Are You a Distracted Driver?

I’m guilty. I’ve spent a lot of time on these pages preaching about distracted driving and the dangers therein. I think we all admit that it’s a huge problem, but very few of us willingly admit that we are guilty. Today, I’m saying it: I’m guilty. I had my moment of truth when I pulled up next to a truck at a stoplight. Inside was the familiar glow of a phone...

The Sexy European: 1970 Ford Capri brochure

Posted on Apr 2, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments

The marketers at Ford in Dearborn weren’t underselling their newest European delicacy, when it arrived in America for model year 1970—it really was an attractive, youthful car. It was famously conceived as Europe’s take on the incredibly popular Mustang, and although it would emerge from factories in England and Germany, the lines of the Capri—which was...

A Scary Experience in a Brand-New Car

Posted on Mar 24, 2020 in Safety | 2 comments

I had a terrifying experience in a brand-new car last night. The story begins with yesterday’s blog about the demise of auto parts stores. The universe played a very cruel joke on me by causing my car to overheat last night and become undriveable at a seriously inopportune time. Think rainstorm, far from home, dead phone battery, groceries in the car… you get...

Base model Bowtie: The plain-Jane beauty of a 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle 300

Posted on Mar 21, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments

Rick Finney’s 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle 300. With so much interest shown towards the Studebaker Scotsman, we thought you would also be interested in seeing a stripped-down Chevrolet. While it may not be as bare-bones as that Scotsman, this 1964 Chevelle 300 four-door sedan comes fairly close. From the outside, there is just a single thin strip of chrome trim down...

The Audrey Hepburn of Cars

Posted on Mar 10, 2020 in Antique | Comments Off on The Audrey Hepburn of Cars

“Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz…” Mercedes Benz has always been held as one of the most prestigious automotive marques in history. This year the company will introduce a new SL model, and in celebration of that milestone, I decided to reflect back on what I believe was the prettiest and classiest of all the SL models. The first SL was, of course the...

CoolStream Duo Bluetooth Receiver

Posted on Mar 2, 2020 in Technology | 1 comment

Here’s a neat little device that solves a problem I’ve encountered – say you own a car built between the years of 2001 – 2010. You know, that fantastic time period where iPods were ubiquitous and automotive manufacturers installed the 30-pin iPod connector in every one of their vehicles. This was also the same time period before those manufacturers really...

Racing: It’s for ALL the Idiots!

Posted on Mar 1, 2020 in Racing | 3 comments

A new generation of speed freak! I drove for the first time when I was about 9 years old. That’s also when I crashed for the first time, slamming hard into a big blue dumpster after the brakes on my homemade go-kart failed. Those early days behind the wheel of a go-kart I made with my dad are what sparked my love for cars and my desire for speed (not to mention...

After all these cars, am I still a car guy?

Posted on Feb 23, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments

Me and my father with the 1968 Triumph TR-250, at a “high-speed” auto-cross run on an abandoned runway in 1979 at Orange Airport, Massachusetts. I think I won my class that day. All photos courtesy of the author. [Editor’s Note: Reader Peter Doherty, Jr. recently wrote in with his story of cars loved and lost and races won and lost, all to ponder what it really...