Greetings from West Texas. In an effort to escape DFW, my lady friend and I are spending a few days roaming around Big Bend country in Texas. Yesterday we stopped in the hipster-paradise of Marfa, TX and I fell in love with every other car the city had to offer. Here are a few of [...]
I’ve recently seen Janus Motorcyles pop up on Autoblog and Uncrate over the past few days, but I wanted to give them a little bit of love on TTHU because I love what these guys are doing. Motorcycle purist will give these guys hell over their small displacement motors and the high price ($3,900 for their basic [...]
www.bringatrailer.com is one of my favorite sites for perusing a variety of unique cars for sale on the web. I’ve been checking it out for a few years without know anything about the people behind the site. The guys at www.Petrolicious.com wanted to know more about Bring A Trailer and put together a great video interviewing the two [...]
There are two things in this world that I know about and I’d like to show you where they intersect. 1. I know cars. I’m getting close to my 10,000 on reading about the great automobile. 2. I know marketing. I study it. I work in the marketing world. I know a few things. On [...]
One of my favorite cars from the Mecum Auto Auction in Dallas was this beautiful 1960 Ford Falcon. Some say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I’ve never had great sight, but the Falcon has always [...]
Earlier this month, I went to the Mecum Auction at the Dallas Convention Center to check out the scene. For those of you unfamiliar, Mecum Auction Company has been doing collector car auctions for the last 25 years. On a lonely weekend night, or early weekend morning, you might have also seen these auctions on Discovery’s Velocity Network. I’m [...]
My view on antique cars is that they are meant to be driven and experienced, not held on a pedestal like a statue. This is a story of a dude, who does just that. Through an arduous process of over 30 years he restores a Mercedes 300SL Gullwing.
Who knew you could squeeze 650 horsepower out of a Ford Fiesta!?!?!? That’s unbelievable.
M.I.A. is back with a pretty bad ass video.
This post is a tribute to the vehicles that take us home from the delivery room, drive us on our first date, take us to and from Grandma’s house at Christmas, and help us lose our virginity. The photos are from my recent trip to the junkyard.
