The Blog, It Is A Changin'
I'm doing a bit of remodeling to my blog's general appearance, but I am woefully unprepared to tackle the HTML code needed to go about the changes expediently. Please bear with my as I work with my...
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Hot Rods: The Embodiment of Individuals in a Car (Part I)
One subject I have not yet dedicated any amount of space to on this blog is hot rods. While most of what I have focused on has been historical in nature, I have tried to maintain a loose theme...
View ArticleNew domain name: carsatlarge.com
Among the changes I am making to this website, all of which are focused on appearance and none of which will tamper with the overall format or topics covered, is obtaining a new website domain. While I...
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Hot Rods: Dry Lake Racer Roots (Part II)
In continuing with my series on hot rods, these unique cars have had an interesting evolution from their early roots in Southern California. One of the most significant parts of this evolution was...
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Hot Rods: Early Individual Customs (Part III)
In continuing my series on the hot rod, I'd like to turn my focus to how hot rodding became more mainstream. While I won't jump to George Lucas' first truly big movie, American Graffiti, the movie's...
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Hot Rods: The Birth of Drag Racing (Part IV)
As hot rodding moved into the cities, the urge to have races and speed contests remained. No one wanted to drive all the way out to the desert to do a land speed run on a dry lake bed that would gum up...
View ArticleHello SC.net folks
Hi all, and thanks for coming to my site. I know I have not updated it since last week, but I have a few new posts coming tonight and tomorrow so please stop by again. For those of you who frequent the...
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Hot Rods: Rat Rods- The Counter Counter Culture (Part V)
Arguably one of the most eclectic and interesting elements of the hot rod and hot rodding community are Rat Rods and the people who make them. A Rat Rod is basically a modified vintage American car,...
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Hot Rods: Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and the Beatnik Rods (Part VI)
Drifting far away from rat rods, but remaining of the theme of extreme personalization, I'd like to focus on Beatnik Hot Rods. To many, Beatnik rods are considered the ultimate in imaginative design,...
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Hot Rods: Foose, Coddington, Barris, and the Birth of the Ultra Rod (Part VII)
The popularity of Beatnik rod's demonstrated a public interest in hot rods that spilled well beyond the shores of the disgruntled teens. Additionally, those teenagers of the 1950's and 1960's were...
View ArticleRoadtrip!
I will not be posting at all for the next week as I am driving around the southeastern United States. Specifically, I am going to Memphis, TN for the world's best ribs, New Orleans, LA for Mardi Gras,...
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Pines Winterfront- Your Best Friend On a Cold Winter Day
Today, we take for granted the fact our car will start right up on those sub-zero days. For the most part, the only thing we care concerned with is that the battery has enough cold cranking amps to get...
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The Lane Motor Museum
Lately I have been doing a fair bit of traveling, which is my primary reason (excuse?) for my infrequent posting habits of late. Besides my aforementioned roadtrip, I just returned from a jaunt to San...
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Blackhawk Museum
As I mentioned in my last post, I have recently returned home from San Francisco, which is home to one of the more well known car museums in the country, the Blackhawk Museum in Danville, CA. The...
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Back from the Dead: Boxes to Vehicle (Part II)
Back in September of last year I left a cliff hanger of sorts by creating a post on restorations with the intention of making it a multi-part series. Due to lack of photos, however, I didn't make a...
View ArticleNew Job
As those who know me or have read my profile here are aware of, I have been searching for a career involving vintage motorcars for sometime now. After much searching, my efforts have come to fruition...
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Survivors: Avoiding the crusher is just step one (Part I)
When you think about it, it is really a wonder that we have as many old cars left as we do. Imagine the work, effort, expense and luck that had to go into keeping around a 3000 lb hunk of out-dated...
View ArticleApologies, Moving, and General Craziness
Those who follow the blog know I don't talk about myself much, save for the odd major life event and such. Even still, I feel bad that my postings lately have been a little slow in the coming and I...
View ArticleBack, almost
Hi All! I've arrived in San Francisco, but have not yet gotten a computer so I am working on a borrowed PC. I don't have the time or the hardware to make a decent post though, unfortunately. I just...
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Survivors: Over-restoration and the 'Dark Ages' (Part II)
Pardon the long delay, but I am getting things sorted out slightly. Without further adieu, my first real post in a while...The collector car hobby as evolved and changed ever since 'collector cars'...
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Survivors: True blue survivors (Part III)
Up to now, I have been speaking mostly about cars that have been restored from their original condition. In other words, vehicles that for whatever reason, were taken apart and recommissioned with new...
View ArticleBack, finally!
Pardon the long absence, but up until now, I have been without a personal computer, only a PC at work. I have finally gotten myself a computer though, so I can return to posting regularly.
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Recalls: Manufacturerer Errors Since the Model T
Ever since there have been cars (or anything else for that matter that has been series produced) there have been errors made by the manufacturers. It seems that almost once a week, we hear about about...
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Winter. In Chicago. In a Bugatti.
Bugatti is one of those names that evokes a certain amount of mystique in those familiar with both the newest Bugattis and the true Bugattis. There are few marques that garner as much respect,...
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Tractors - A unique part of the collecting field
Car collectors are a strange bunch. They spend loads of money on out dated technology, are delighted if it runs some of the time, and can be cult like in their devotion to certain brands or types of...
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