scotte commented on Hot Rod Citroen DS Packs A Familiar Punch, at 6:09 PM on May 13 I remember seeing that car when it was under construction at Kreations Auto Body in Rio Dell, California (WAAAAY up north, near Eureka) a couple yewars back. Even in bare metal without all the chassis bits on it, it looked fantastic. Kudos to Kevin Bradley & his crew of master craftsmen who built it! more »

scotte commented on Porsche Carrera GT Eats It While Driving Onto Trailer, at 6:22 PM on Apr 28 That guy needs an in-your-face "talking-to" from Assy McGee. more »

scotte commented on Caterham R500 Does the 0-60 Run in 2.88 Seconds, at 2:15 PM on Apr 12 Does the Caterham's price include an "I Am The Stig" t-shirt? more »

scotte commented on Cleveland School Bus Crash Story Gets Even Better, at 6:15 PM on Apr 9 @mytdawg: Somehow, "Magical Misery Tour" (from that same National Lampoon album as "Deteriorata") seems strangely inappropriate here. more »

scotte commented on Studebaker President? No, Packard Clipper!, at 6:09 PM on Apr 9 And to think that S-P almost bought the 1956-'57 Lincoln body tooling to make Packards with, but the Wall Street crowd (who--rightly--saw the S-P combine as a total loser) refused to lend S-P the money to buy it. more »

scotte commented on Top Seven Best Cars To Die In, at 7:48 AM on Apr 7 @whoever brought it up: Ernie Kovacs died at the wheel of a Corvair station wagon (the most tail-heavy 'Vair body style)...with a blood alcohol content of .11%, while leaving a party...while trying to light a cigar while rounding a wide, sweeping curve during a California-in-January rainstorm...& after he'd been awake for 24+ hours working on a comedy special for ABC-TV & a TV-series pilot with Buster Keaton. On his tombstone: "Nothing In Moderation." more »

scotte commented on It's An '86 Mustang Kind Of Day... Every Day!, at 10:44 PM on Mar 12 You hd to like the speedometer in the '86 Mustang GT, whose numbers stopped at 85, but the needle didn't...not until you were past "TRIP RESET" and well north of 120 MPH, close as I could figure. My black '86 GT fastback was my company car. From the day I got it, the '80s stopped sucking. more »

scotte commented on 2008 Builder Of The Year: Gene Winfield, at 12:24 AM on Mar 12 Gene is one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet anywhere---and he's still as sharp as he was years ago. Last year, on set-up day at the Sacramento Autorama, i was looking for cars to photograph for my soon-to-be-ex-rag, and Gene recognized me, came over, said hello...and for the next hour or so we wandered around, not only looking at the stuff that he did that was in the show, but other cars & trucks that he thought were kewl (some of which wound up winning more than a few of the big awards at that historic show!) more »

scotte commented on And Now, Your Jalopnik Moment Of Zen..., at 7:54 AM on Mar 11 Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh................... more »

scotte commented on Orange County Fairlane, Now With Added '65 LTD!, at 6:54 PM on Mar 6 @Triborough: That's a '58 Ford Fairlane sedan, sorta like the one Al Pacino drive in "Godfather II" Ford's lower-priced Custom & Custom 300 sedans were about a foot shorter. @Isetta: The first Caprice was the four-door hardtop, which appeared in the middle of the '65 model run. more »

scotte commented on So, You Want To See Bullitt As Intended?, at 7:47 PM on Mar 2 We've got the 12 Hours o Sebring AND the NHRA's gatornationals the same weekend here in Florida... BTW: Will there be "Odorama" cards for folks to scratch & sniff the various olfactory attractions in the movie (i.e. more »

scotte commented on Adam Carolla to Host Top Gear USA?, at 5:41 PM on Mar 1 Let's just have Los Jalops or Jalopalumni....and bollocks to anyone who's been on an American TV programme that's run more than 13 weeks. more »

scotte commented on Boyd Coddington, Remembered, at 8:22 PM on Feb 27 When I was editing a now-formerly-great monthly car-events magazine (whose talents later included DaveyG), Boyd was one of our monthly columnists. more »

scotte commented on Boyd Coddington, Hot Rod King, Dead At Age 63, at 8:10 PM on Feb 27 From what I heard in e-mails from hot-rod folks on the west coast, Boyd got hurt in a fall a couple months back...internal injuries (including a ruptured colon) led to all sorts of complications,...nothing more need be said along that line. more »

scotte commented on BBC America Bribes Us To Talk Up Top Gear, We Accept, at 12:03 AM on Feb 26 Let's just get three car guys who can make like The Three Stooges while on film, just like Captain Slow, Jezza & The Hamster do. more »

scotte commented on Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira, at 11:05 PM on Feb 21 Rip off...just like japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's work was ripped of--most notably by "spaghetti-western" Sergio Leone. more »

scotte commented on What's a Snowdickfor?, at 8:22 PM on Feb 8 What else is this for? more »

scotte commented on Carroll Shelby Sues Shelby Owners Club, at 6:43 PM on Feb 1 I respect Carroll Shelby. more »