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Photo Essay: Desert Valley Auto Parts
It’s unfortunate that Desert Valley Auto Parts in Scottsdale, Arizona was involved in that horrible reality show, because it’s truly an awesome place. If you’re a kid from New England, the idea that...
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The Eternal Dilemma: New Cars vs. Used Cars
Iris mist. You won’t find it in the paint samples. But the Chrysler folks said I could have it. 164 hp, 2.5 litre V-6. Power heated mirrors and a tach no less. “Cab-forward.” I was married 4 years and...
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Clunker Nation Photo Contest Ends Tomorrow
Just a quick reminder that if you want to score yourself a sweet Clunker Nation bumper sticker, you have to enter the contest by noon tomorrow by emailing a photo to...
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Clunker Vision and Buried Treasure
I bet we all have a wish list of cars we’d like to own someday, right? If you’re like me you probably have a few you’ve spotted in yards and garages and are keeping an eye on them for “someday.”...
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What’s Your Favorite Car?
There’s that line in Monty Python’s Holy Grail: The knights turn up at the bridge, and the troll who guards it asks them questions. “What’s your favorite color?” he asks. Simple enough, right? Mind...
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Banned: 7 Cars to Have Sex In
(Ed. Note: Apparently, a certain major search engine has a “family audience.” That audience is fine with front-page promotion of a “Red Band” trailer for an R-Rated movie in which Jason Statham...
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Cars I Saw on my Summer Vacation by Craig, Age 45
On my summer vacation, I went to York Beach, Maine. It was very nice, and I saw many interesting cars. Mercedes-Benz 240D I didn’t even get out of Nashua, New Hampshire when I followed this sweet...
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Weird Influences: The Movie and TV Cars that Inspired Me
I was like every other kid in the 1970s, in that I was in love with the Bandit’s Trans Am, the Duke boys’ Charger, the Monkees’ Dean Jeffries-modified Monkeemobile, Thomas Magnum’s 308 and Frank...
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Fuck DARPA: A Clunker Manifesto
I’m not a conspiracy theorist. It’s not because I don’t think that the government would love to start snooping around at what’s in my sock drawer, mind you. It’s because nobody in the government can...
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Cop Car Colors: Where Do They Come From?
I’m writing an article on police liveries for my pals over at BoldRide.com, and I remembered that a looong, long time ago (2002, to be exact), I wrote an article for the Boston Globe on that very...
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