Two years ago, on a whim, I bought a very gently used 2018 Toyota Tundra Limited Crewmax pickup: 41,000 miles and Toyota Certified with a warranty until practically forever or … Continue Reading Trying To Convince Myself to Sell A Perfectly Good Toyota Tundra for Something Fun
Last July, I lamented on this very blog about how nostalgia is a funny thing, and for us Car Geeks it’s easy to fall into the trap of automotive nostalgia … Continue Reading Fleet Update: I May Have Spoken Too Soon…
It seems like I read a lot these days about how Millennials, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha – generally speaking – just don’t have the same car bug as we … Continue Reading Igniting the Passion: Getting Your Kid(s) Excited About the Car Hobby!
At 52 years old, I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time contemplating my mortality. Not in a doom-and-gloom sort of way, but really more on the practical side. … Continue Reading What Are The Cars On YOUR Bucket List?
[Author’s note: At Mr. Bracq’s suggestion, I’m writing this article to a background mix of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, George Gershwin, and a host of other classical and jazz music … Continue Reading Paul Bracq at 90: Joie de Vivre!
A long time ago, at a San Francisco Bay Area car auction, the TTS team bought a Fiat 124 Spider – quite by accident. It was probably about 1999, and the … Continue Reading 1975 Fiat 124 Spider: There ARE Still Classic Car Deals Out There!
There’s been a lot of chat lately – really since the onset of the COVID pandemic -about how online enthusiast-oriented car auctions like BringaTrailer, PCar Market, MB Market, Cars and … Continue Reading Where Have All The Good Cars Gone?
Last week, a 1987 Honda Prelude Si 5-speed in essentially showroom condition and with hardly more than delivery miles (a tad over 4,200) sold on the Bring a Trailer auction … Continue Reading Nostalgia is a Funny Thing…
When Porsche’s Boxster show car hit the stands in 1993, the storied marque was gasping for air. With the excesses of the 1980s in the rear view mirror, the company … Continue Reading Has the Porsche 986 Boxster’s Time Finally Arrived?
We’ve talked before about how Jonathan is more the BMW guy here at TTS and Mercedes-Benzes are more my thing. While that is certainly true both by the sheer numbers of … Continue Reading 1985 BMW 745i: When an S-Class is Just Too Milquetoast
This piece was first published in Classic Mercedes magazine’s Winter 2022/2023 issue, where my good friend and editor holds me to a strict timeline and set of minimum expectations – something … Continue Reading Rally, Ho!
Hey, now! How’re things? Did you make it through COVID? Wasn’t that a drag? Did you put on the COVID 50 like we did? Moreover, are you still interested in … Continue Reading Watch This Space…
About a year ago I published a piece entitled “The Cars That Keep Me Coming Back for More” wherein I talked about a variety of cars that keep finding their … Continue Reading (My First) 25 Years of Mercedes-Benz Addiction..
One of the things that the “BringaTrailer” phenomenon has seemingly accomplished is having helped push prices of even many of the most esoteric of classic Mercedes-Benzes (and countless other marques) … Continue Reading 1985 Mercedes-Benz 380SE: Bargain Benz That’s Better Than You Think
The first car my wife and I bought together with co-mingled funds was a 1994 Mazda MX-5 Miata. It was September, 1996, just weeks before we were to be married, … Continue Reading Fleet Update: 1991 Mazda MX-5 Miata BRG – “The Placeholder”
“Nobody drives American anymore.” – John Cusack as Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank, 1997 The truth is: I’ve never owned an American car. We had them when I was a … Continue Reading 1989 Pontiac Bonneville SSE: If RAD Could Be Measured In Buttons…
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