Big John Mazmanian photo courtesy mikesteinberg-aagas.com
If you love the Gasser drag racing years of the Sixties (and on), you probably have an affinity for Pirelli tires. They were the choice of many old warriors for skinny, low-drag front tires for a long, long time. And if you’re like me, a pair of Pirelli frontrunners are [...]

Good friend and cultural anthropologist, Roddy Moore, is also a hotrodder. But, that means Roddy comes at his car builds with a certain sense of historical correctness and pretty much full-blown bitchen-ness. His latest, a ‘49 Shoebox, is a perfect example: sure, scallops and five-spokes are nothing new, but it amazes me how many folks [...]

Got a cryptic message on the cellphone last week from an anonymous caller: “Hey, man…Ben Davis…dead…thought you might wanna know…OK…smell ya later…”
One of the most loved and oldest workwear brands lost its founder and namesake: Ben Davis – the man himself – dies at 95 years. If you don’t have one of the unique pullovers or [...]

The venerable book publisher, Taschen, has been releasing some great collections as of late and we ’specially dig the new one dedicated to surf culture. Vintage Surf (here) really focuses on all the great, old campy stuff that really hit when the Southern California surfing scene took off in the Fifties and Sixties, and we’re [...]

Remember your first endo on a bike? Here’s RL Osborn pulling off a curb endo in, like, ‘86 or something. There’s a great thread on nothing but endos over at Old School BMX (here). Close the door to the office and enjoy…

From our friends over at Mollusk Surf Shop: a new little film is coming soon and it’s looking promising. “Jazz The Glass,” (here) billed as a pirate surf film, doesn’t taste like the same old indie surf drudge. Seems like the boys at Stoke Films actually have something interesting to say!

Our friends over at Jalopnik alerted us to their friends over at CarDomain and their Muscle Car Parking Lot (here).
One of our favorite underdogs of all time is the Mercury Marauder X-100 and the Parking Lot does a good job of giving the luxo-muscle its due. Now, while they also cover some of the [...]

Like everyone says, “There’s still stuff out there…”
We stumbled upon a HAUL of Model A stuff and just couldn’t say no to it. Up in Petaluma, CA, there’s a guy who needed to get rid of 40 years of Model A parts his dad was saving for a project he never got around to. [...]

For a few years now, Winter in San Francisco means the “Cow Palace show” over at the, well, Cow Palace. It also has meant that their “Suede Palace” down in the back buildings has always been the venue for the local car clubs and backyard builders. See how I don’t use the worn-out moniker, “rat [...]