Nobody will ever know, exactly, just how much wild and creative stuff went on inside Smokey Yunick’s garage, mechanical and otherwise. Yunick can’t tell us, other than through his outrageous autobiography, because he died in 2001. Now, the original Smokey’s Garage is gone, reduced to rubble on Monday night after a fire of undetermined origin. […]
No, that’s not a typo. We checked, and the number is real: The Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation announced Tuesday that the Museum Foundation has received a gift of approximately $100,000,000 from Margie Petersen and the Margie & Robert E. Petersen Foundation. According to the press release, This donation is comprised of a substantial unrestricted financial […]
After McGean’s mention last week of the Kowalski edition Dodge Challenger, I can’t resist highlighting Audioslave’s video for their 2002 song “Show Me How to Live,” which splices the band members rather seamlessly into the Challenger R/T from “Vanishing Point.” Bonus, while looking for the Audioslave vid, we found the trailer for “Vanishing Point” as […]