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more about #windsor more comments → Xelmon: Wow... What a beauty! more » DrLemming: Tonyola makes an interesting point below about the decline of Chrysler quality. By 1953-54 Chrysler's market share was falling as Ford continued to p... more » HoonThatFerrari: Great find, MM. This is definitely one of the coolest DOTS vehicles I've seen. Is it someone's daily driver, do you happen to know? more » Novaload: Now that is a nose on a car. And those gauges could be framed and placed on a wall as a fine art work. All the details, all the trim. What a beauty! more » that ain't the way to have fun, son: Oh, man. That is cool as hell. I still can't wrap my head around a vehicle that large being only 3,200 lbs. more » tonyola: It might be hard to believe after decades of K-cars, Sebrings, LeBarons, and other dross, but there was a time when Chryslers were the solidest, most ... more » Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Very nice, and a great writeup. But as for personal comfort, there were wing windows and personally adjustable footwell vents. Can't complain about ... more » QADude: I saw the round they had in San Francisco a couple of years ago during Fleet Week. Just incredible flying skills - talk about amazing. They had a toug... more » Sloop_John_B: These Air Races are a permanent fixture on my DVR. I just can't stop watching them. more » 03SVT Defender of SUVs, friend to the douche: In the interests of equal time, I think Planeopnik deserves it's own QOTD, to wit:What plane would you dragon? After all, we all know dragons can fly,... more » dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity: It's all fun and games until someone crashes. Just like drinking Red Bull. more » Franzouse: Totally unrelated: Megan Fox is being interviewed on French TV right now. Yowza! more » Jo Schmo: Detroit gives you beatiiings! more » Boosted Lego Wagon: Air racing is cool. It's got this '30s Hughesian Sky Pirates and Zeppelins air to it. more » wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx: I feel like you wouldn't fly very well if you were all jacked up on Red Bull. more » -
#downonthestreet
1940 Chrysler Windsor
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. We saw our last 1940s Alameda vehicle four months ago, so it's time for another. More » -
#planelopnik
Red Bull Air Race Slips Caffeine Into Detroit River This Weekend
Red Bull's caffeine-injected Air Race thrillfest is coming to Detroit/Windsor this weekend for round 3 of the 2009 season. With a course set along the Detroit River, it promises to be a Planelopnik-packed weekend. Here's a preview. More » -
#chooseyoureternity
Project Car Hell, Limo Edition: 1957 Chrysler or 1981 Ferrari?
Can an American car- even a 60-year-old American car made by a long-defunct manufacturer- compete with an entry PCH Superpower Italy? Not according to our most recent Choose Your Eternity poll, in which the '38 Studebaker Dictator lost out to the '68 OTAS 820. That might have something to do with the fact that most of the OTAS now resides in the belly of the Rust Monster, but it also points out just how tough it is to beat a PCH Superpower. However, Project Car Hell is all about beating your unstoppable head against an immobile brick wall, forever, so we're coming right back with another Italy-versus-America matchup. And not just your quotidian-type X-1/9-versus-Pacer deal, oh no- today we're plunging headfirst into the molten sulfur of Custom Stretch Limo Hell! More »
