Car Blogs

  A few years back, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company had a “Garage Makeover” Sweepstakes in which they gave away a $35,000 garage redo by a company called GarageMahals (www.garagemahals.com) that hails from Scottsdale, Ariz. Someone at the insurance … More »

  Ford must be selling Mustangs like hot cakes because there was a bunch of Mustang activity going on at the Chicago Auto Show last week. A word that you hear a lot at these shindigs is “interactive” and what … More »

  Russ Noel of Country Classic Cars LLC (www.countryclassiccars.com) thinks big. Why else would he have 500 vintage cars stuffed into four buildings along the pie-shaped juncture of Route 66 and I-55 in Staunton, Ill.? If you’ve driven past that … More »

I’m sure you’ve heard the old adage “every car tells a story.” In most cases, those stories involve how the car was purchased, who owned it, how it came to be restored and other such facts of the vehicle’s ownership … More »

  Funeral service vehicles ranging from an elegant horse-drawn 19th-century funeral carriage to the actual hearses used in the state funeral services of U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford can be seen at the National Museum of Funeral History … More »

  It’s a cold, snowy year in the Midwest and if you’re like me you have “Car Cabin Fever.” The Volo Museum (www.volocars.com) is a good cure for this disease that’s prevalent here in the Rust Belt part of the … More »

Last September, at the Antique Motorcycle Club of America National Meet in Davenport, Iowa, I was woofing down some kind of sandwich at the food stand while talking to Jeff and Sharon Powell, a couple of first-class MG and bicycle … More »

Did anyone else have some problems with the Chrysler commercial Bob Dylan did for the Super Bowl? First of all, I never knew that Mr. Anti-Establishment Dylan had such a commercial streak in him. I also have a hard job … More »

  Almost every book we’ve ever read about auto restoration tells you that you need a minimum of three vehicle spaces to accommodate a restoration project: You need a space the size of a car to store the car in. … More »