Honoring Machines Designed By Hand And Cut From Metal
So you sat there in your dorm room, wearing your white, pleated slacks and penny loafers, sipping your Nescafe while drooling over that Honda CBX road test in Cycle Magazine. Those header pipes kept you up at night, and you dreamt of pulling up to class on that CBX. But, you never did get to…
Okay, this isn’t at all what I expected. As I rolled up to a stop sign my urge to blip the throttle at a standstill was unfounded since the little “Bull” fell into a gently loping idle without any help from my right wrist. A surprisingly small amount of gas and an easy clutch release…
Well, as Bob Dylan quite poetically penned, “Times, they are a changin.” Ironically, the group of people our current conversation is focused on probably don’t even know who Bob Dylan is. That’s not an insult, just a potent piece of evidence shining light on a world-wide shift in the economy-especially our precious vintage motorsports market. …
There’s a well known saying: “A jack of all trades, master of none.” Typically these words are tossed out in an insulting manner, but if you think about it, being a jack of all trades is pretty impressive. And honestly, how could one person or thing properly master several different “trades” anyway? I’d be quite…
Vintage motorcycles are-if we are going to be honest-just simply outdated. Though technology marches on, many of us live in a self-inflicted bubble of archaic design. We love it, but at the same time grimace at the oil stains in the garage, the fickle carburetors, and iffy electronics. However, thanks to Continental Tires, there…
If you clicked here because you are a fan of From the Basement, the UK based, web series where legendary producer, Nigel Godrich, hosts some of the most talented musicians in the world in an unassuming basement/studio, I apologize, the title may have been misleading. This basement story involves an eager mechanic, a broken car…
From Barrett-Jackson: Over the last decade, Resto-Mods have seen a meteoric rise in interest among buyers. A 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Split-Window Custom Coupe (Lot #1333) sold for $385,000 at the Scottsdale 2019 Auction. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – February 4, 2019 – Barrett-Jackson’s 48th Annual Scottsdale Auction proved once again to be the barometer of the collector car market….
To Hoard or Not To Hoard….That is the Question. Remember your first car or motorcycle? Remember thinking, this is the only car or bike you’d ever need or want to have? Now that car or bike is in the back of the garage with a bunch of old blankets piled over it. About a dozen other…
Press Release: BMW Heritage Munich/Dingolfing: The vehicle collection of BMW Group Classic is now richer by another unique special. This is all thanks to the vocational training team at the BMW plant in Dingolfing. The apprentices restored the BMW 1600 GT convertible in a project lasting several years under the guidance of their trainers. The four-seater…
Well, it’s January. And if you are an automotive collector, this is the month that you pick up your auction paddles and decide how much you are willing to pay for what. There has been discussion over how much weight should be given to auction results over the years, sometimes the intensity of the moment…
Updated: We added the final sale prices to each bike…overall, prices were low. I guess that’s why you don’t auction 5 very similar bikes in a row. Tisk, tisk, tisk…. —————————- The 1985-88 Ducati F1 750 is a first and a last kind of machine. First? That’s because it’s often been called the first true…
Hidden in the shadows of the bustling 405 freeway in Carson, California, is a Porsche lover’s playground called the Porsche Experience Center Los Angeles (PECLA). Any car enthusiast passing through the area would be wise to stop by the free showroom, featuring about a dozen Porsche sports cars of various vintage and pedigree, or perhaps…
What says “Merry Christmas” better than a gorgeous, red Benelli 350 sitting in the snow? Okay, probably a lot of things, but…this Italian stunner from www.classicavenue.com caught our eye and had just the right amount of Holiday spirit to warrant a post. This 1968 Wards Riverside/Benneli was found at the famed Mid-Ohio swapmeet, rusty but complete,…
Press Release from America’s Car Museum. Bullitt Mustang Shoots into America’s Car Museum on December 5 TACOMA, Wash. (Dec. 4, 2018) – One of the most iconic movie cars of all time, a 1968 Ford Mustang GT 390 Fastback – the Bullitt Mustang – will be headed to Tacoma, Washington on December 5, where…
It’s hard to describe the elation I felt as I came across these small photographs in shoe box while going through some my dad’s old pictures. Though thumbing through the family pics was special, these pics are special in a different way. I had always heard about his trips to Laguna Seca Raceway, made years…
A beautiful vintage Ducati in someone’s soggy backyard? Yep. Please enjoy the following pictures of a Roy Kidney restored, 1959 Ducati 200cc Americano, enjoying the closest thing some of us So Cal folk get to Fall colors. Pictures: Gabriel Trench
When we said we were living in the Golden Age of retro motorcycles, we weren’t kidding. Need further evidence? Here yah go, the new Norton Atlas series. The two 650cc inline-twins definitely are a mix of “how we did it,” and “how they’re doing it now.” Both the Nomad and Ranger share an engine…
As promised, the new Jawa 300 motorcycles rolled onto the stage today, with three new models. The classically styled “Jawa,” the somewhat sportier, “Jawa Forty Two,” and the bobber-esque “Perak.” All three models debuted live on Youtube this morning, with the Mahindra Classic Legends Private Ltd division making their ambitions clear: flooding their native streets…
Though there were dozens of fantastic vintage motocross bikes at this year’s Lake Elsinore Grand Prix, a lanky four-stroke caught and then maintained our attention as modern Honda’s and Yamaha’s blitzed down the streets of Lake Elsinore at alarmingly close proximity. As we continued to look over our shoulders, wondering if we were at a…
This year marked the 50th running of the Lake Elsinore Grand Prix, the race so famously featured in motorcycling’s most iconic movie, On Any Sunday. It’s quite amazing really-A half century of racing through the countryside and streets of the So Cal town of Lake Elsinore. Though you aren’t going to bump into a young…
