Reminds me of the SNL ad for the Royal Deluxe II, so smooth you perform a bris in the back seat.

1961 Rambler American. It might look plain and non-threatening, but one feature of Nashes and later AMC Ramblers were front seats that lay down flat. If you were the father of a teenage girl in 1961, you'd rather her date showed up in a Corvette.

Say what you will about the Monkeemobile, but the folks at Pontiac were perfectly happy with it. From a styling standpoint, what Dean Jeffries, who built the original, did was take the existing GTO styling and exaggerate it to the extreme. Also, the retro looking phaeton style convertible roof looks great. I think it…

Yep, nobody's ever commented on a male executive's dressing habits.

Chaz, nicely done. Here's the live reveal in Dearborn in 3D.

The op-ed pages of a newspaper shouldn't be the place readers go to get talked down to by young female black millennials.

Even more curious is the fact that there's only one black woman in the mix in a region that once counted Betty DeRamus, Susan Watson, Desiree Cooper and Robin Givhan among its ranks. What happened there?

I'm no pro photographer, but at an event like this, you have to work with the lighting there is. It wasn't easy getting decent shots at the Dearborn reveal. They wouldn't let us up on the stage, Ford employees lined up to get their pics taken with Mark Fields, and soon after we were finally able to get clear views of…

The fastest production Ford was a Ford GT that went 205 mph at the Nardo track in 2004. Ford donated the car to the Piquette Avenue Model T Museum in Detroit.

Doug, but how dangerous is it when not driven at the limit? People shouldn't be driving anywhere near the limit on public roads.

I wonder what it takes to put a Carrera GT into a tree on a public street. That's my thought whenever someone puts a high end sports car capable of pulling .9g or greater on a skid pad off of the road.

How could you forget this Lotus color scheme? They used it before Pontiac stole it for the Trans Am.

American Motors V8. They made it in three displacements but they were all based on the same block so the 390/401 versions have big-block displacement without the weight of the GM, Ford and Chrysler big block engines. AMCs were great sleeper cars. BTW, apparently the dual quad, cross plane Edelbrock intake manifold was…

Perhaps the most durable American car engine ever made. You couldn't kill those things.

I recently wrote about a number of documentaries about John DeLorean and the DeLorean Motor Company for TTAC and I was subsequently contacted by someone in Hollywood who told me they were on one of three teams working on a possible theatrical movie about John DeLorean.

People don't get stuff like this signed because of the monetary value. I have a tote bag from the press preview of the 2003 NAIAS that I got signed by Caroll Shelby one year. Then I realized I had the bag with me anyhow so I started getting it signed by others, including Jackie Stewart and Richard Petty. From then on,…

Did someone say something about autographs? The writer Eoin Young, who knew Stewart when he was an up and coming young driver, tells a cute story about his autograph, which is very legible, with flourishes above and below if Sir Jackie has enough time.

The F Type's wheelbase and track are both about 8 inches longer than those of the E Type Series I. While it's undoubtedly a bigger car, the photograph exaggerates the difference.

Don't be afraid to ask professional photographers for advice.

You're a professional photographer if you charge people for photography. It's up to your customers to decide if your skills are pro level. It doesn't matter what the event is. A former co-worker of mine retired and set up a box van with computers and printers and she drives to local parks where families are holding…