Image courtesy oldcarbrochures.com Part of the fun of our Class of 1986 series has been identifying the new-for-1986 vehicles now considered classics, based on the rolling 25-year guideline – or, alternately, the vehicles with production runs ending that year. Doing so pulls into perfect clarity just how a quarter-century can distort our sense of time, […]

With the unofficial start of summer upon us today, diskojoe sent along this link to a quintessential summer pop song, Jan and Dean’s “Surf City,” in a video shot for the pilot of Jan and Dean’s show, “Surf Scene.” H…

From the high plains desk of our satellite office comes this perfectly aged 1948 Studebaker M5 pickup. A comic tragedy of the traditional hot rod phenomenon is when a new fabrication is faked up to look used. While this practice is fine for actual-size movie set versions of the Millennium Falcon, it simply doesn’t add […]