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A Transparent Error...   The Mercury Sun Valley debuted as ‘America’s First Transparent-Top Car’, a Plexiglas dream machine put into regular production for 1954. That year, my dad Jerry was just another [...]

Spreading The Gospel...   He sat on the hard wooden pew and wiped his brow nervously. Despite his best efforts, a bead of sweat rolled down his cheek. Never before had he felt so trapped, so confused, or so conflicted. In [...]

The 2012 Lone Star Round Up: Part 2   Every year Brian, Will, and Steve let me giveaway an award at the Lone Star Round Up. As silly as it might sound, I’ve grown to take the responsibility pretty seriously. By Saturday afternoon, [...]

The 2012 Lone Star Round Up: Part 1   There is no sympathy for those in search of trouble… and I was one of “those” this weekend. See, my typical Round Up weekend is almost entirely focused on work. So much so, that I [...]

Detroit Rock City   So I’m at the Round Up this morning and don’t have time for a typical post. As such, I decided to end my week long focus on Detroit with some footage that is even further off topic than my [...]

The Art of the Drop Top Chop... Part 2   As you can see, Mr. Tardel is moving along swiftly. Now that the windshield posts are chopped and the header has been massaged, the attention is now turned to the more difficult part of this task: The [...]

Detroit Will Rise   Allan Hill has what seems to be a sort of sad optimism. Through circumstances that aren’t really ever explained, he lives (legally mind you) in one of the last inhabitable buildings of the [...]

The Art of the Drop Top Chop...   ‘If it was so easy that anyone could do it, then it wouldn’t really be that cool anymore’, or so the saying goes. Correctly chopping a convertible top is right up there on the [...]

A Letter From Hell   I was 12 years old in 1988 when Mickey and Trudy Thompson were murdered in their driveway. I can remember my old man breaking the news to me one day after school. Mickey was my hero and the news, much [...]

Save The Date...   He took another pull from the thick glass tumbler. He swirled the Tequila around in his mouth slowly and winced. The sun rose from behind over the rooftops across the street and through the [...]

Pick Your Phaeton   I’ve never been a Phaeton guy… And then, I went to Australia and hung out with my buddy Thommo and his ’33. It pretty much ruined both Blake and me. Ever since, we’ve been day [...]

Spring Resolutions: Get Car Stuff Done   Looking at the calendar, it’s hard to believe we’re already well into the year 2012 now! (Aren’t we supposed to have nuclear-powered flying cars by now?) Yes, it’s spring time, [...]

Mad Fabricators: Volume 6   My god… Mad Fabricators: Volume 6 has been out for months now and I have yet to review it. For good or ill, I’ve been avoiding my television lately and spending most of my free time [...]