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Auto-Biography Part 1: Genesis
(I’ve decided to re-run my Auto-Biography Series on weekends. The series first ran at TTAC in 2007, and then again here in 2011. I know many of you have been exposed to it, but we do have a lot of new...
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CC Outtake: 2015 Winnebago Tribute: The First Retro Motorhome
I should have seen it coming. One of the greatest marketing opportunities is catering to the nostalgia of aging boomers; hence retro Mustangs and Camaros. And how many of them either had a Winnebago...
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Cohort Outtake: Maserati Merak – The Citroën of Supercars
It’s hard not to stop for this sensuous Merak at the Cohort, posted by Yohai Rodin, despite all the other cars there too. It’s another exquisite design by Giorgetto Giugiaro during his golden era,...
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Want A 1965 Chevrolet Super Sport Convertible Six? Ask For Model #16567 – And...
(first posted 5/22/2011) The 1959 Impala Hardtop Coupe CC stirred up some comments doubting that the Impala, and all full-size Chevys came in two distinct models, a six and an eight. They did, ever...
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CC Outtake: A White Boxy Volvo Wagon Lover Lives Here
My neighbor around the corner loves his white Volvo wagons, but I’ve never seen them both out front together before. He must have been sweeping his driveway or something, so they finally meet, to show...
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Cohort Masterpiece: Cadillac Seville “City Slicker”– How Could I Possibly Not...
Joseph Dennis’ photography posted at the Cohort has been irresistible, but this one takes the cake. What a terrific shot; it looks so well staged. And the Seville plays its role perfectly. The gen1...
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Automotive History: The Legendary Buick Nailhead V8 And The Possible Source...
(first posted 3/20/2011) Nailhead: what did Buick do to deserve that less than flattering name for its legendary V8 engine from the mid-fifties to the mid sixties? Hemi-head; even flat head are...
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Lincoln Mark IV Design Inspiration Discovered – Ford 999
And all these years I’ve been calling the Mark’s neo-classical grille a “faux-Rolls-Royce” grille. Turns out that Henry Ford’s 1901-1902 “999” racer had one several years before there ever was a R-R....
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Cohort Wordless Outtake: “Do I Carry A Spare Ballast Resistor? No; What’s That?”
1972 Imperial LeBaron coupe posted by Yohai Rodin
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Cohort Outtake: Rom Carmel 1300 Pickup – Betcha’ You Didn’t Recognize It
It seems to be time to educate ourselves about the cars of Israel. Prolific Cohort poster Yohai Rodin has uploaded a number of models made by Israel’s primary domestic builder, Autocars Co. Ltd. The...
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Curbside Classic: 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am – Not Quite Screaming Chicken
Instead of a “screaming chicken”, the 1979 Firebird Trans Am should have a pterodactyl on its hood. This is a living dinosaur, the very last direct descendant of the the genus big block/hi-po pony...
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Cohort Outtake: 1974 Eldorado Pimpmobile – Not A Eugene-mobile
Eugene is a mecca for curbside classics, but there are certain cars I’m just not going to find here. Toyotas from the seventies? Gobs. A genuine vintage 1974 Eldorado pimpmobile? Just not gonna’...
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Curbside Classic: 1959 Chevrolet El Camino – I Have Seen Many Strange And...
October 5, 1960 Dear Harald, I’m sorry I haven’t written to you sooner. Our trip to America was very exciting, on one of the new DC-8 jets. New York was incredible, all those skyscrapers. Iowa City is...
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Cohort Outtake: 1975 Chevrolet Caprice Convertible – The Last Big Chevy...
I keep finding more of Joseph Dennis’ Chicago street shots at the cohort that I can’t resist showing. This one shows the last of the big Chevy convertibles in a nose-up takeoff position, getting a...
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Auto-Biography: High Speed Assimilation
(First published in 2007)[The previous chapter] My first glimpse of America: looking down on a freeway at night, with glow-worm toy cars. It was just like the picture of GM’s World of Tomorrow exhibit...
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Cohort Outtake: Winged Birds Of A Feather
AGuyInVancouver posted this shot that…um…well….ah….would be better left to a true die-hard GM fan to write about. Are there any still around? Well, let’s just say that the Cavalier in its latter days...
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Curbside Classic: 1951 Plymouth Cranbrook – Automotive Immortality
(This is one of my very first CCs, and has a special place in my heart as well as its owner. And six years later after it was first published, I continue to see it regularly at the Y) I’d been...
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Curbside Classic: 1937 Packard Motor Home – Ask The Man Who Sleeps In One
CC reader Norm forwarded me an e-mail with pictures and just a bit of info on this splendid 1937 Packard motorhome. Why wasn’t this in my driveway on Christmas morning with a big red ribbon and bow?...
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QOTD: Do You Warm Up Your Car Before Driving Off?
It’s that time of year again, and there are numerous articles out there about the subject of warming up a car when it’s cold outside before driving off. Thanks to changes in technology, oil,...
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Trailhead Classic: 1978 Subaru BRAT – Subie Doo
(first posted 12/6/2011) Better a day off than an off day It’s always good to be able to take one’s father’s advice (as long as it’s good advice and you’re over forty). So we took it yesterday,...
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