Water your driveway, please

Most people water their lawn – except perhaps if you live in Tucson, where your landscaped garden is made equally of rock, cactus, shrub and wildflowers. So imagine our car owner’s slight surprise when we asked him to water his driveway.  We won’t give away his name, lest the environmental lobby start picketing in front […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1969 Puma

Hmmmm… Another chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter kinda car, somebody decided to blend the sports car aesthetics of this Brazilian-built 1969 Puma coupe with the knobby-tired, dirt-kicking functionality of a Baja Bug and the giant-wing-for-downforce look of a Subaru WRX. The seller offers no description, but on their website described it a little further as a “Baja rally racer,” […]

Your legs are the crumple zone; have a cigar

Everybody’s gotta start out somewhere. Martin Carl Fischer, born in 1866 and a native of Zürich, Switzerland, was already a trained and accomplished watchmaker when the automobile became less of a tinkerer’s delight and more of an actual conveyance. Yet as the size of the automobile quickly ballooned in the years following the turn of […]