Author Archive: Craig Fitzgerald
Frank Kozik’s Poster Art Puts Cars and Music Together Like Nothing Else
Last week, I mentioned Gearhead Records and Gearhead Magazine, and I walked out into the garage to work on the Blazer project and one of my posters smacked me right in the face, sending me all the...
Doris Day’s International Road Roller Ad is an Introduction to the Weirdest Celebrity Product Endoresments Ever
“When Doris Day needs road rolling equipment,” reads the copy that must’ve made some ad executive a fortune, “you can bet she’s going to turn to a name she’s...
The Bottom Dollar Blazer Project: Resurrecting a Yankee K5 Blazer From The Creeping Death
I have always loved the K5 Blazer, but I have two problems: (1) 99.9 percent of the K5s available have been treated to hockey puck lift kits and chrome directional wheels. (2) I’m cheap, and...
Italian Furniture Builders Built This BMW K100RS Cafe Racer Out of An Oil Drum and It’s DEADLY
Vibrazioni Art Design isn’t known for building motorcycles. It’s recognized for building cool furniture out of old 55 gallon oil drums, the way half the bands in Jamaica built their drum...
Gearhead Magazine: The Best Thing About the 1990s
I was digging through my record shelf the other day and was kind of surprised to find that I had a relatively complete collection of split singles that all came from the same place: Gearhead...
Epic Hacks: Reddit’s “Just Rolled in the Shop” Subreddit Will Give you Nightmares
Reddit has a million “subreddits” on everything from trees to male fashion advice. Our favorite is “Just Rolled in the Shop,” a collection of photos from mechanics all over...
The Movies of the 1960s and 1970s Were an Automotive Goldmine, and Not Just in the Movies You Know
These days — especially in places where it snows — it’s rare to see someone driving around in a modern Challenger or Camaro SS as a daily driver. Most of the time, those cars will...
FMC Built These Cool, Wildly Expensive RVs in the 1970s – The Cool Story Of FMCs RV Division
In the 1970s, a whole lot of car and truck manufacturers wanted to get into the recreational vehicle game. Instead of just shipping bare chassis to Indiana to have an RV builder throw a 1/4-inch...
1970s Car Accidents Were BRUTAL – Scenes From A Very Bad Day On A Rural Vermont Highway Circa 1975
The University of Vermont runs an amazing photo archive called the Vermont Landscape Change Program. It’s chock full of photos from every era, a lot of which have contemporary photos showing...
