Top down weather!

Now that warmer weather is finally arriving and I can once again put the top down,
be on the lookout for the His Nibs car, as I tool around a neighborhood near you,
flinging fountain pens through the air as I drive!

Morgan Aero SuperSports

This is my current 'when I win the lottery' car!

Big Interest in Tiny Cars

Turning Heads for 38 Years

Image via Wikipedia

"The E-Type design is one of the timeless shapes in automotive history. In 1996, the Museum of Modern Art in New York focused an entire show on the car. It was called “Refining the Sports Car: Jaguar’s E-Type."



I've asked for this car for my birthday every single year. I'm still waiting.

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Crash test: 1959 Chevy Bel Air

Think those big hunks of steel from our automotive past are safer than today's 'plastic' cars?

"The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety conducted a unique crash test to demonstrate the advances in motor vehicle safety over the last 50 years. In this test, a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu and a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air are both going 40 mph and the vehicles collide offset, driver side to driver side. This is the same crash configuration represented by the Institute's 40 mph frontal offset barrier test, which is used to rate the frontal crash performance of new cars."

Birthday auto blues

Since another birthday is passing without anyone giving me a Jaguar (I bet my birthday mates, Elvis and David Bowie, never had that problem), perhaps I can talk someone into giving me this car for a present?