A day or two before any modern motorsports racing event, lumbering mega-trucks pull in and unfold into human-assisted race support giant robots. Empty parking lots are transformed in mere hours into a sea of trailers with satellite uplinks, spare parts, and very deep pockets to keep it all humming. This was not always the case. Phil Burgess over at NHRA Insider has assembled an … [Read more...]
Compact Executive J-Car
From the spell check has no idea what sort of word Cimarron is department comes this 1988 Cadillac Cimarron. A junkyard hoof over the holiday weekend revealed dozens of quality automobiles ready to be picked clean, and melted down into steel poles for partially solar-powered sustainable parking meters that simultaneously confuse the public and spit out squares of recycled … [Read more...]
The Autronic Eye
Technology and modernism were to have saved us all from mundane toil a long time ago. Postmodernism brought with it ongoing complications, leaving many pipe smokers sitting in their Eames lounge chairs puzzled, and wondering what the hell happened. Back in the time of supersonic thinking, automakers embraced a modern direction not only in design and engineering, but also in … [Read more...]