Author Archive: Craig Fitzgerald
Craigslist Bait-N-Switch of the Week: 1972 Buick Skylark, 73,000 miles, $5,000!
I’ll admit it: I’m wacky for Buick stuff. I’ve owned five in the last dozen years, including my current 1996 Roadmaster Wagon, and a cool ’68 Riviera I sold a few years back....
Project alert: Check out this awesome scooter-powered, three-wheeler go-kart
A few weeks ago, we ran a story on Number 20, a Vespa-powered quarter midget from the suburbs not far from New York City. Same deal here: this car is scooter-powered, street legal and located in...
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with this 1992 La Carrera Panamericana documentary produced by Pink Floyd. Yes, Pink Floyd.
On its own, La Carrera Panamericana is a super documentary about the 1991 running of the resurrected Mexican Road Race. What’s truly interesting about it, though, is that it was presented by...
These movie-inspired car posters are the coolest art we’ve seen in months
Nicolas Bannister is a graphic artist from France. He’s put together an AWESOME series of posters featuring cars from famous movies, TV shows and video games, all from exactly the same angle,...
VIDEO: Gerry Marshall fends off a swarm of 2.0-liter cars in a Camaro at the 1971 Crystal Palace race
A few weeks ago, Lohnes posted a great in-car video of Gerry Marshall muscling a Chevy 302-powered Vauxhall Firenza around a British road course. This two-part, 16 minute video has him dicing it out...
Monday Shopper: 1977 Chevrolet El Camino – Mecum Kansas City, 2014
Auctions have changed over the years. They used to be places where you’d go to get a good deal. Now, thanks to the hot TV lights of Barrett-Jackson on a Saturday night, auctions seem to be a...
Deep in the bowels of the New York International Auto Show is the coolest display of former cop cars you’ll ever see
As Lohnes mentioned yesterday, I was stationed at the New York International Auto Show, which opens to the public this morning. There’s always lots of new stuff to look at, but my favorite...
Wait until you get a look at this 1954 Pontiac “Tribute” Car. Awesome? YES!
At my old job, I got an email from this guy, who said he was working on building a tribute to the Pontiacs of the late 1940s and early 1950s. For reference, here’s what one of those cars looks...
Vespa-powered Number 20 – This Might be the coolest hand-built vintage quarter midget in history
We’ve featured quarter midgets from time to time, but nobody’s ever seen one like this. In the 1950s, a guy with a whole lot of talent and a kid who was crazy for racing built this amazing car,...
VIDEO: It’s the Mods vs. the Rockers in this awesome clip from Great Britain
We’re barely aware of the tension between two rival gangs of hoodlums in Great Britain in 1964, but it made for some awesome footage, and inspired a whole lot of cool music over the years. This...
The Russian GAZ-66 4×4 fills us with want. Watch this video and you’ll need one, too
I stumbled onto a cache of Russian 4×4 videos on YouTube, and now I’ve been killing many precious hours watching these rigs crawl through the mud to worksites in Northern Russia. A lot of...
Before Earl “Lucky” Teter, Joie Chitwood and Evel Knievel, B. Ward Beam invented the auto thrill show
The following advertisement appeared in the Amherst (N.Y.) Bee on August 6, 1931: Wanted: Single man, not over 25 years, to drive automobile in head-on collision with another car at the Albion...
Mickey Rooney — star of a lot of crap and two great car movies — died at the age of 93 yesterday
Most of Mickey Rooney’s career was one version of an “aww shucks” kid or another, but for car nerds, two of Rooney’s movies stand out in a big, big way as some of the most...
These bands tour in epic vehicles (featuring music for your Friday!)
Most bands that tour around end up in either a Ford E350 or a Dodge 3500 van. Until some time in 2012 before they really hit it big, the band The Lumineers were touring the country in a Ford Windstar...