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When the far ahead of its time 1936 Cord 810 was introduced it changed the automotive landscape forever. One of the innovations featured on the 810 were the previously unseen standard hidden headlights (operated by crank), a feature that would be used on cars for decades afterwards. This weekend we want to know which car you think carried the option best. What is your favorite car with hidden headlights? More »
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Although Mack is an extremely recognizable name in the world of big rigs, few people know the company took a brief and commercially unsuccessful trip into the world of smaller trucks in the late '30s. More »
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You know how neighborhood kids keep jumping onto your car's rear bumper and hitching a free ride? Doesn't it get you steamed when you see their grinning faces in your rearview, smug in the knowledge that they're stealing your hard-earned engine sap? These days, you'll probably have to rely on the fact that bumpers are mostly integrated into the car's body and thus make a poor riding surface, but back in 1936 you could just rig up an ignition coil and a big chain dragging on the ground to apply some high-voltage behavior correction! [Modern Mechanix, via BoingBoing] More »
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Our last Choose Your Eternity poll showed us that a rustbucket BMW 2002 beats a fossilized Nissan 300ZX, albeit by a fairly narrow margin. And that's good to know, though such knowledge won't be applicable to the cars our friend Mike sent in to us. Even though Mike didn't get a Project Car Hell Tipster T-shirt for the burnt Subaru he sent in earlier, he does get one for today's Choose Your Eternity contestants. You'd have to look pretty hard to find a pair of cars that better epitomize everything this series stands for; the combo of amazing car any sane gearhead would kill to own and near-impossibility of ever fixing the thing up... well, just check 'em out! More »
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Sometimes, on this great journey through life, you witness something so truly breathtaking, so utterly, impossibly perfect, pure and good, it shifts the paradigm of your perception. It is deceptively easy to go right by the "First Love" exhibit in front of Detroit's Cobo hall. A passing glance will reveal nothing out of the ordinary, as slick show cars go. Look closer and you'll bear witness to high-dollar rodding nirvana. Simply put, this is, by a wide margin, the finest example of no-holds-barred custom fabrication work this Jalop has ever seen. Ever. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=244003&view=rss&microfeed=true Audi feted its new Park Avenue forum this morning, showing off the R8 for the first time on US soil, as it paraded alongside the R10 TDI LeMans diesel racer. As a nod to heritage, Audi also rolled out the granddaddy of them all, the 1936 1938 Auto Union Type C D "Silver Arrow," whose roaring V16 V12 penetrated the post-rush lull on Manhattan's most exclusive street. Just imagine the sound of an entire field of these things lined up on the N rburgring, and try to forget who was most likely seated in the VIP section. [UPDATE: Behind the wheel is R10 TDI racer Emmanuel Pirro. [UPDATE 2: It's actually a 1938 Auto Union Type D Silver Arrow. Thanks to Benztown for the double-check tip.] More »
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With platinum getting all the attention, gold was starting to look as dated as a Look magazine cover photo of Burl Ives. But then something weird happened, at least in the hot rod world. Gold, the more metallic the better, came back with a tide of 1960s-period hot rods, a likely reaction to the highly graphical, megabux rods featured on every cable channel north of PBS. While, in some ways, Jorge Zaragoza's 1936 Ford Coupe falls into the second category — with its Roush-tuned big-block and Tremec five-speed, in others, it's an emblem of retro understatement. That's not unexpected considering Zaragoza helped restore Tom McMullen's iconic, flamed deuce highboy, featured on the cover of Hot Rod in 1963. More »
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