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more about #retro more comments → Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Aren't you neglecting the earthquake that preceded the fire? And a points deduct for a soundtrack that's not period correct more » FrankGrimes: this is so rad. though it's easy to think life back then was so perfect since we don't see the prostitutes and the opium dens. I was kind of shocked... more » 68Fastback: Watching this makes me feel a lot less cynical about the way people drive today. I mean, at least now traffic is split into lanes, and people drive mo... more » Novaload: So many lessons. There must have been an enormous number of deaths and injuries with the random movements of horses, cars, pedestrians, bicycles, ... more » beercheck: Okay. Now. Name every car. Er.....one. Name one car. more » Turboner: I would like to hear this song more often on Sirius Chill. Their playlist has become sorta stagnant... more » egoods: The video is slowed down to "normal" speed. Sorta trippy to watch an old movie where you expect everyone to be running around benny hill style but ins... more » günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi: nice to see that nothing has changed when it comes to how people drive around/cut-off public transportation... more » Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig): After the fire, this montage would be set to Air's "Sexy Coit" /need coffee more » that ain't the way to have fun, son: Um, this is incredibly advanced for some of us. The above pic comes from a '95 Mercedes E320, a car which retailed for $45K-50K back in 1995. I wish... more » -
#retrolopnik
1905: San Francisco Has Always Been Chill
One streetcar, a handful of cars, and San Francisco's Market Street before the 1906 fire — all of it set to Air's "La Femme d'Argent." In other words, the best YouTube clip we've seen all month. More » -
#retro
Back When Automotive Interior Designers Weren't So Slick: SECU- RITY Indicator Lamp
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#pinups
Girls With Cars: Photographs By Phillip Hall
We learned last year that most of you prefer hot rod pinups to European Booth Professionals, so here's a selection of Alameda photographer Phillip Hall's "Girls With Cars" work for you. More » -
#foundoncraigslist
A Tale Of Two Fiat 128 Hatchbacks: One Goes To Loving Home, One Gets Crushed
A couple months back, I found a 1974 Fiat 128 Sport Coupe while searching for likely Project Car Hell candidates. Only 500 bucks, and the listing included those three magical words: Ran when parked! More » -
#carshows
Pretty Emblems And Engines From The Island That Rust Forgot
While most of you know my city for its street-parked old cars, Alameda also boasts plenty of high-buck-type show cars. Once a year, they take over the island's main drag. More » -
#auctions
Truppi-Kling Chevelle Drag Racer Depreciates $1 Million In 3 Years, New Owner Gets Screamin' Deal
You need nerves like bridge cables to play the muscle car auction game, as exemplified by the crazy ups and downs of the famous Truppi-King Chevelle SS 454 convertible. More » -
#downonthestreet
500 Old Cars And Trucks Down On The Streets Of Alameda, California
More than two years after the first street-parked Alameda car in this series, we've reached the 500 mark! 1919 to 2000, Chevrolets to Rolls-Royces, econoboxes to muscle cars: all here! More » -
#retro
Automotive Survivors Part II: More Cars Made For At Least 20 Years
When we had the 50 Cars Made For Over 20 Years list a few weeks back, we were deafened by the howls of outrage from those whose favorite cars didn't make the cut. More »
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#retro
The Ultimate Automotive Survivors: 50 Cars Made For Over 20 Years
While the Beetle, Ambassador, Mini, and 2CV each enjoyed more than four decades of production in pretty much their original form, we mustn't overlook the other long-term survivors of the automotive world. More »
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#retro
From Street Sweepers To Maseratis, 1950s World On Wheels Cards Had Them All
Back in 1953, Topps issued the first World On Wheels series of trading cards, eventually honoring 180 different vehicles. Collector Chuckman has scanned and posted them all on his site, and some are seriously cool. More » -
#retro
So That's Why You Don't Park Between The Signs
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#foundonebay
Lincoln Sentinel Concept: Buy It Now For $48,500!
There's a chance to own a piece of Ford history on eBay — the Blade Runner-esque, Lincoln Sentinel concept from 1995. This questionably-styled, rolling retro-futuristic concept chassis can be yours for a buy-it-now price of just $48,500. More »
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#autoparts
Carpocalypse Hasn't Yet Brought Down One Of The Last Independent Auto Parts Stores
Not many downtown car-parts stores remain viable these days, what with the Carpocalypse on one hand and the relentless spread of big chain parts outlets on the other. Lee Auto Supply in Alameda remains, though! More » -
#retro
Hot Rod Hooligans Rip '60 Buicks, Make Getaway In Chicken Truck: The Choppers!
The ringleader drives a T-bucket with six pots, and the gang earns their bread strippin' the squares' sleds. Welcome to 1961's The Choppers! More » -
#rally
This Is Why They Invented The Internet: European Rally Hoonage Of The 1960s
Do you like to watch Minis, 2-stroke Saabs, Citroën DSs, and even Ford Mustangs tear up the streets, fire roads, and goat tracks of Europe? Of course you do! More » -
#retro
Honda Sets Up 50th Anniversary Homage 1959 Storefront In HQ
In 1959 Honda established itself here in the U.S. selling motorcycles out of a small storefront in LA. Fifty years later, the folks at Honda erected a homage to that first little store in their U.S. headquarters. See it below. More » -
#retro
Automobile Details Restored Scarab Transporter
Famous vintage race cars worthy of restoration are getting scarce, so wealthy hobbyists are having to move on to a new frontier — race car haulers. Don Orosco's Scarab Transporter is one of the best. More » -
#retro
1939: When Chryslers Assembled Themselves
Imagine how much cheaper car assembly would be with no workers. No healthcare costs! No strikes! The pistons, they just march right in to that ol' flathead six! More » -
#barnfind
Arlen Ness Bike #6 Found In Oakland Garage, Gold Leaf Still Looks Great
I'm not really a motorcycle freak, but like all right-thinking Americans I'm bummed that custom bikes have followed rods over the precipice into the Overwrought Rococo Era. That makes this 1970 time capsule especially refreshing. More » -
#retro
Hoisting A 1966 Mustang To The Roof Of The Empire State Building
When Porsche put its Panamera on the 94th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center, we thought it was pretty clever. Turns out Ford did the same with the Mustang, some 44 years earlier. More » -
#tech
Used Bookstore Gold: 1970 Motor Service's Automotive Encyclopedia
I thought that finding a copy of Let's Call It Fiesta for a buck at my favorite teetering-walls-o-books used bookstore was a serious score, but bzr may have done even better with this find. More » -
#questionoftheday
What Was Your First Plymouth?
We had such heartfelt responses to the question 'What was your first Pontiac?' that we're going to pose the same question with another much-beloved Detroit marque that got the axe this decade: Plymouth. More » -
#downonthestreetbonusedition
Can You Identify All The Cars In This 1970 Photograph?
Now that I'm scanning negatives, I've fed some old family slides through the scanner as well. Here's one from pre-California Chez Martin, circa 1970, in lovely Spring Lake Park, Minnesota. More » -
#photography
Murilee's Interstate 5 Road Trip Photos Of The Late 1980s
I've finally dragged out the ol' SCSI slide scanner (purchased back when my main computer was a Centris 650, so we're talking prehistoric hardware here) and digitized more of my old I-5 photos. More » -
#crazyeurocarboydoeslondon
The Nissan Figaro Treads Fine Line Between Retro and Cool
Nissans as pacifiers, Nissans as stop motion actors. Let’s now turn to a weird little JDM Nissan peppering the streets of London: the Figaro. More » -
#rally
Tire Chains And Lucas Electrics In California's Gold Country: The 2009 Snowball Rally
From the same folks who brought us the California Melee rally, here's the Snowball Rally. Prolific tipster and LeMons Assistant Perpetrator TheEastBayKid drove his '76 BMW 2002 and shot some nice photos for us. More » -
#conceptcars
Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
Citroënet is one of the few marque-specific car websites that can measure up to the standard set by Allpar, and it doesn't take much digging there to unearth some jaw-dropping stuff. More » -
#junkyardfind
1982 Datsun Voice Warning Box Used Tiny Phonograph Record, Just Like Moon Base Robots
Certain high-end Datsun models of the Late Malaise Era came with a seriously science-fictiony feature: the car talked to you! That's no big deal nowadays- $1.29 worth of silicon- but back then it took hardware.
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#jalopnikbookreviews
GTO: Pontiac's Great One, by Darwin Holmstrom
When this monstrous volume showed up at Chez Murilee- and this is one freakin' huge slab-o-musclecar-porn, displacing 206 cubic inches- I figured I'd find nothing but pretty pictures within. Such was not the case. More » -
#questionoftheday
What Was Your First Pontiac?
I'm guessing that a respectable percentage of you have owned at least one Pontiac (you foreign types with your Polski Fiats and Proton Sagas can sit this one out). What was the first one? More » -
#downonthestreet
Pontiac Is No More, But The Survivors Flourish Down On The Street
Oldsmobile, Plymouth, and now Pontiac; this century is rough on the old Detroit marques. With the the demise of Pontiac in mind, let's check out the classic Pontiacs I've photographed down on the Alameda street.
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#novelties
Life Imitates Art, 80s Style: Shot Wheels Cars
You never know what you find when you start looking into the profound cultural effects of Wacky Packages. Not only did they begat Topps' Weird Wheels, but one card inspired real-life toy cars: Shot Wheels!
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#classicadwatch
The 1932 Ford: As Many Ball Bearings As Cars Costing Four Times As Much!
Les Firestine Ford disappeared from Oakland's Auto Row many decades ago, but this promo film- apparently shown in theaters around the East Bay- makes the Deuce Coupe seem like a pretty good deal, even now. More » -
#mini
1978: The Best Mini Yet!
Even in the throes of its seemingly endless decline and fall, British Leyland was still able to get one car more or less right: the tough little Mini. More » -
#novelties
Bad Brats And Hot Rabbits: Forget Your Malaise With Weird Wheels!
I was a huge fan of the original mid-70s Wacky Packages (particularly the car-themed cards), so I can't believe I totally missed their 1980 descendants: Weird Wheels! More » -
#downonthejunkyard
Uncounted Treasures Sleep In Desert Junkyards
I shoot most of my Junkyard Find photos at high-turnover self-service junkyards owned by steel corporations, so the cars have usually been crushed by the time you see them. Not so with this yard! More » -
#retro
When The '40 Oldsmobile Breaks Down, These Resourceful Ladies Know The Score!
Back in the 40s, a woman could strip down to her undies in an attempt to catch a lift from a passing motorist, with nothing to fear but the baton of a disapproving police officer. More » -
#dragracing
Ya Don't Drive, Ya Aim! Motor City Drag Racing, 1958
It's like threading the needle at a quarter of a mile… but it's really livin'! Hot Rod Magazine put together this great drag racing documentary for the 1958 Nationals, and it's well worth watching. More » -
#retro
2002tii Touring, 2002ti Alpina Restore Our Faith In Bavaria
Though they were never inexpensive (the base 2002 sold for about the same price as a loaded Impala), BMWs were once small and uncomplicated. Here's a pair of 2002s you might like. More »
