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Bonus Gallery: Road Tripping In The 2011 Toyota Sienna
Two weeks in a minivan with three kids? There but for the grace of god goes this childless 20-something. Luckily our man Karesh is made of sterner stuff, and was happy to put the 2011 Toyota Sienna...
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On The Road, In 1948
We take our modern, reliable and comfortable cars (and lives) for granted. How would your teenage daughter take to spending a road trip like this? If you’re old enough, you’ll relate to that look of...
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Review: 2010 Infiniti G37S (A Road Trip Five Years In The Making, Part Two)
As recounted last week, I had been wanting for years to meet up with my best friend and both of our fathers in a pair of Mazda RX-8s for a spirited West Virginia road trip. Finally, the appointed day...
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Solo Road Trip Heroism: San Diego To Miami In a Caged $500 Citroën
Readers of On The Road gush about the incredible asphalt journeys taken by the book’s protagonists, but they did most of their driving in a brand-new Hudson and a brand-new Cadillac limousine. Here is...
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Despite Water Pump Woes, Citroën Hell Road Trip Reaches Louisiana
Yesterday morning, it seemed that Spank’s LeMons-veteran ’71 Citroën DS would be stranded in El Paso due to a bad water pump shaft seal. When your car is made out of pure unobtanium, Miami seems much...
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What It’s All About: Old Car, Two Lane Blacktop, AM Radio
I’m normally pretty curmudgeonly about the inherent inferiority of old cars. A 5-year-old Camry will outperform just about every classic Detroit muscle car or Italian sports machine in nearly every...
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Road Trips: Cruising Oakland In a 40-Year-Old 1951 Chevy
I’ve been scanning a lot of my old 35mm negatives and slides for the ongoing 1965 Impala Hell Project series (using a time-slows-to-crawl 1999-vintage SCSI film scanner), and I ran across this series...
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1965 Impala Hell Project, Part 8: Refinements, Meeting Christo’s Umbrellas
Introduction • Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5 • Part 6 • Part 7 • Part 8 • Part 9 • Part 10 In the last Impala Hell Project episode, the now-disc-brake-equipped Chevy and I hit Interstate 5...
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Hammer Time: 17 Hours of Hell
A 2000 mile road trip to drive…the 2012 Toyota Camry? Oh well. I needed a break from the world, and what better way to do it than with some quiet time and a huge tax write-off. At 5:54 A.M. I fired my...
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1965 Impala Hell Project, Part 11: Son of Orange County
In Part 10, the Hell Project Impala got Fiat scoops on the hood and hit the I-5 trail again. By late 1993, the car looked more or less the way I’d planned when I started the project and had become a...
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1965 Impala Hell Project, Part 12: Next Stop, Atlanta!
After the Nixon-head-hood-ornamented Impala’s pilgrimage to the birthplace of Richard Nixon in the spring of 1994, I left Oakland and moved across the Bay to an apartment on Valencia Street in San...
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New or Used: Dude, Where’s My Gig Van?
(courtesy: Jan London Band) Hman writes: Howdy, Long time reader, first time emailer. (Except for two published Ur-Turns.) Anyway, I’m in a two-piece “rock” band and we are doing a 6-week tour in...
View ArticleDrivelapse USA: The Great American Road Trip In Five Minutes, Fifteen Seconds
Americans may no longer be as completely obsessed with road travel as they once were, but for first-time visitors to the USA, a round-the-nation roadtrip is always the ultimate fantasy. And really,...
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Review: 2011 Audi S4
I needed a suitable car for a spirited 500-mile run to the “coolest small town in America,” and back. One leaped to mind: the Audi S4 with its optional active differential. In our first encounter, the...
View ArticlePiston Slap: A Saturn Wagon’s Bad Timing (Update)
Click here to view the embedded video. Dave writes: Hello Sajeev, Well, better late than never. I did get my Saturn running again. Due to weather, parts delays and misdiagnosis I spent a lot more...
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Bored On a Long Road Trip? Bad Car Bingo!
I’ve played many a game of Buzzword Bingo with equally bored coworkers while stuck in 19-hour PowerPoint presentations, back when I slaved as a tech writer in the software biz. Why not apply this...
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My Introduction To Panther Love: Inaugural Police Interceptor Road Trip!
Back in 2004, I was doing a typical East Bay highway commute to my job writing software documentation. Ten miles each way in a Tercel (I had my choice of an ’85 wagon or a ’90 hatch), and the...
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Real-World Review: Fleeing Hurricane Sandy Across 8 States In a Rented 2012...
So the Halloween Hooptiefest 24 Hours of LeMons at New Hampshire Motors Speedway went well, with the Rust In The Wind Saab-powered Nissan 300ZX taking a very improbable overall win, and we of the...
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First Annual White Knuckle White-Out Challenge
Most harebrained ideas are hatched under the influence This was no different. A thousand miles removed from Canada’s largest city, two freelance automotive writers were guzzling beer and bandying...
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Dealing With Loss: My Father’s Oldsmobile
My wife with the Oldsmobile at Storm Lake, WA Nobody likes to think about the passing of a parent. When it happens it leaves you with a lot of different feelings, sadness, emptiness, loneliness and...
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