There’s long been an appreciation among drag racers for the stripper look: That is, get a two-door post car and denude it of excess trim or gadgets, slap a set of blackwalls on steelies with pie plates, all in the “go, don’t show” philosophy. Indeed, this 1957 Ford Custom would have been one of the […]
Most of us are, by now, aware that Seth Rogen’s remake of The Green Hornet will be out in theaters on Friday, January 14, 2011. And you’d think that a die-cast of the masked hero’s Kato-driven Imperial would be a shoo-in for the toy aisles. Right? Well, sort of. There is a Green Hornet car […]
While reorganizing the bookshelves at home, I pulled out an old favorite title that I hadn’t read in some years – Tom Couch’s U-R What You Drive. I got this book when it was brand new, in 1987, and although I have no memory of what else I may have received that year, this gift definitely became one of my […]