Bullitt chase scene being recreated in slot cars

Since November, UK resident and slot car enthusiast Emigre has been working on one heck of a project: Re-creating the chase scene from Bullitt in stop-motion with slot cars. Simple? Hardly. He’s also building from scratch almost the entire late 1960s San Francisco background scenery in 1/32 scale. He anticipates releasing the entire chase scene […]

Show Your Colors

American Honda Motor Co. has recently debuted a small but soon-to-grow collection of apparel that was inspired by the cars, bikes and scooters of the automaker’s glory days of the 1970s and 1980s. They offered this insight (get it, Honda’s Insight? ha!): “Honda is excited to celebrate its heritage by recreating styles and accessories from […]

Former Autocar facility sits gutted in Philadelphia

You’ll hear about fires damaging old, abandoned auto factories from time to time, ravaging a piece of our heritage, usually in deeply troubled parts of Midwest cities that have been forgotten by the rest of America. It’s not exclusively a heartland heartache. The photo you see above was snapped last week in Philadelphia. This gutted […]