* Fans of “Man From U.N.C.L.E.” will no doubt recall the Piranha, a car that Gene Winfield built for the show. It appears that the exact car from filming has now turned up and is headed for a restoration. UPDATE (13.June 2011): Geoff Hacker’s Forgotten Fiberglass has more on the Piranha. * Speaking of Gene […]

We’ll revisit the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Flickr stream – the same one on which we found the pictures of the Lear-built steam-powered buses – one more time this week for a Technicolor street scene, snapped April 1966 in Hermosa Beach, California. The LACMTA would like us to focus on the bus, but […]

By now, you’re likely aware of Kyosho’s gorgeous 3-inch Ferrari models: picture-perfect representations of Cavallino Rampante favorites sold in “model kit” form – fully painted but unassembled die-cast cars that take about 30 seconds to put together. (Screws and the cutest little screwdriver you’ve ever seen are included.) Their Ferrari Series 8 models are here […]