Seeing Dick Pelkey’s high-riding 1955 Chevrolet gasser at Musclepalooza on Memorial Day weekend conjured sepia-toned memories of the Badman model kit. As a kid, I thought the Badman would be the perfect automobile for all-around daily use: big-block Chevy, open headers, straight front axle, and “Adios Mother” painted across the trunk lid – a phrase […]
In the States, the Mitsubishi Outlander is one of a zillion SUVs out there on the roads – not one you see a whole lot of these days, granted, but it’s out there, nonetheless. Less known here is that in France, a pair of badge-engineered Outlanders live in Peugeot and Citroen dealerships across that country: […]
If you have a child under the age of eight in your life, you will at least have heard of CARS, the Disney/Pixar computer-animated feature that anthropomorphized a variety of vehicles. What no one expected was the continuing success of the merchandise that surrounded the film: Five years on, and CARS has remained an evergreen […]