The Booth Babe Chronicles: The Song And Dance Of Car Commercials
Music and scents. That’s what surrounds me during my work at car shows. The music tries to drown out the display next door. The ladies, gentlemen, even the cars in the booth are carefully perfumed....
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Stolen Cassette Deck Karma Goes Around, Comes Around
One thing that really sucked about the pre-MP3 era was that it was a huge hassle to get your car a cheap source of music that didn’t sound terrible. As I gather components to set up my Dodge A100 Hell...
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Doomed Value Van Triggers Bad 80s Roadie Flashbacks
Some of you may be more familiar with this friend of the catering and drinking-water industries in its Chevrolet Step-Van guise, but I’ve always preferred GMC’s name: Value Van! I ran across this...
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Not Exactly Hard, Sweet, and Sticky: Sammy Hagar’s First Rock Star Car Purchase
I ended up with a copy of Sammy Hagar’s memoir as reading material for my last air-travel adventure, and found it quite entertaining (in spite of the tedious anti-David Lee Roth/Van Halen brothers...
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Ask The Best And Brightest: What Will Replace Maybach As The Rapper’s Car Of...
Jay-Z may have been the biggest celebrity booster (certainly TTAC wasn’t) of the Maybach line, but the brand’s demise is going to leave Hov high and dry for new wheels. So will Hov go back to the...
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When You Need Garage Tunes Right Now: Field Expedient Surround-Sound Audio...
When I moved into a Victorian near downtown Denver summer before last, I finally had something I’ve been longing for since I started messing around with cars: a garage! Since that time, I’ve been...
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Harry Belafonte’s Kids Sing Olds Troféo-ized Version of Dad’s Big Hit,...
After creating today’s Oldsmobile Toronado Troféo Junkyard Find, it becomes my duty to share one of the most brain-scrambling examples of the “What Could GM Have Been Thinking?” genre of car...
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Car Wreck Humor, 1904 Style: Is That My Eye On the Dashboard? No, That’s One...
These days, with the nanny-state enforcers of IngSoc and Agenda 21 mandating 3,000 pounds of safety gear on each new motor vehicle, it’s refreshing to hear that folks in the very early days of motoring...
View ArticleYou’ll Never Guess Where Radiohead’s OK Computer Highway Interchange Is
Or maybe you will. Someone did. As the 20-year anniversary of the release of UK alternative band Radiohead’s monster OK Computer album approaches, an online sleuth has provided pretty compelling...
View ArticleQOTD: Road Tunes, or No Tunes?
There are a select few machines on this planet in which I prefer to hear the exhaust note rather than the stereo: high strung Italians or any big V8 with a lumpy cam, for example. Noise bylaws...
View ArticleQOTD: Your Favorite Road Tunes?
Every gearhead reading (and writing for) this website enjoys the thought of a good road trip. One rule which should permeate all voyages decrees that passengers can complain about the type of music or...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1985 Toyota Van, Santa Cruz Music Video Edition
Inspired by the unexpected success of the K-car-based Chrysler minivans in the early 1980s, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and Toyota each made North American-market versions of their small mid-engined vans....
View ArticleCopyright Infringement Lawsuit Has Ford Humming a Sad Tune
Did Ford rip off someone else’s playlist? The answer to this question will emerge from a courtroom, now that the owner of a vast digital music catalog has filed a lawsuit against the automaker. The...
View ArticleStacks of Gen-Z Won Incoming: Hyundai Ioniq EV Brand Endorsed by Famous K-pop...
Finding the perfect celebrity endorsement occasionally means deciding which public persona aligns most closely with your corporate image — and figuring out how to lock down that commitment by waving a...
View ArticlePumping on the Stereo: TTAC Rocks … and Rolls
A week or so ago, I was in Tennessee, testing the Volkswagen ID.4, blasting some country music on satellite radio simply because I was in Tennessee, and it hit me. You folks might be wondering what, if...
View ArticleRare Rides: The Paul McCartney Signature Edition 2006 Lexus RX 400h, One of One
Today’s Rare Ride was randomly mentioned among some other Lexus discussion on Twitter, and your author knew it immediately needed coverage here. This very special RX was conceived at a time when...
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