A look at the Place de la Concorde today confirms that not much has changed in the decades since – not the monuments, not the traffic, not the bicyclists braving said traffic, and probably not even the pavers in the street. So what do you see here? Though he found it at a site dedicated […]
Described by the World Registry of Cobras & GT40s as “the only Mk IV to be caught in a snowstorm,” the car driven by Bruce McLaren and Mark Donohue to a fourth-place finish at the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans will be appearing at the 2016 Greenwich Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for June 3-5 at […]
It might not be Barris material, but there’s little doubt it’s authentic, with a design language that incorporates a good amount of the vernacular, and it seems to have been well preserved with no updating since. Even without any provenance attached to it, this 1954 Oldsmobile 98 custom for sale on Hemmings.com is a good […]
Unfortunately (for probably everybody except those who have to drive on it), the brick paver streets have since given way to pavement, but little else has changed here in the last 60 years. What do you see here?After yesterday’s Paris carspotting exercise, we decided to stay in Europe and head over to Madrid, where this […]
What do my star ratings mean? Cooper Tires has had quite a year. Celebrating the 100th anniversary since its founding in 1914, one of the few completely American tire companies left alive is still going quite strong. Last year at this time we saw Cooper still reeling from the failure of a messy and complex […]
Whether you’re looking to upsize to larger wheels for the performance benefits, downsize for snow tires, or just going for a unique look for their car, there are a number of details that you must get right to ensure proper fitment and safety. One of the easiest and most effective ways for an owner to […]
Having a wheel come off or fail because of bad installation is never fun, nor is being unable to remove a wheel by the side of the road because some chimpanzee overtorqued the lugnuts. A lot of customers think that wheel installation is so easy that a monkey could do it, to which I like […]
There is quite a bit of knowledge and technique that goes into dealing correctly with lugnuts and lug bolts. Between the fact that you’re dealing with relatively small parts and extremely large forces and the fact that those small parts are absolutely critical to holding the wheel on the car, that knowledge and technique is […]
Sure, everyone makes mistakes, and even the best and most experienced techs will have a bad day sometimes, but there does seem to be a set of mistakes that new techs just make all the time. In my experience, by addressing these mo Ah, brand-new tire techs. I think of them as somewhat like new […]
7 years into the great experiment that is mandated TPMS, the data on underinflated tires is pretty clear. NHTSA tire pressure surveys indicate that 26% of passenger cars have had at least one tire that was under-inflated by at least 25% Therefore, on average, passenger cars could lose about 5,440 miles / 8,704 km […]
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