I would love to show you the actual photo, but mine is currently in a pod en route to a different state.

I have so many diecasts, and my favorite changes depending on what i just bought, or what custom i just finished. However at the moment my favorite is this 1/18 Checker Cab, because i cast it in iron myself.

You dun’ fucked up now Jalopnik. Step into my office. Most of my models are Autoart, pre ridiculously expensive/sealed body, but I have a Minichamp Porsche 917/20, Ayrton Senna’s Lotus 98T, and two Mclaren F1 GTR, one of them a Gulf longtail, and a Team Bigazzi car that I rode in back in ‘05. I also have several…

I’ll never forget the year I wanted to apply my new-found love of cars and my resolution to become a car designer to the annual junior high science fair competition. I decided to study aerodynamics, and built five model cars to do it. Mostly...Pontiacs. I was 13.

I have numerous 1:64 scale Ford GT/GT40's, but this 1:12 scale is my pride and joy.

From about 1922 until 1937, my grandmother was a traveling corset saleswoman in Neb, SD, Iowa, and sometimes into Western Ill. She never carried a gun. She knew how to use one, her father was a railroad policeman for the Burlington. She did carry hidden in her underwear, a custom made ice pick. She used it twice. For…

There isn’t any Jezebel crap in this article, it’s a straightforward piece. It doesn’t pass any insults about the idea of carrying a gun. In fact there’s almost no presentism, the author lets the past have its own terms of reference.

You threw down the gauntlet, Elizabeth. I challenge you to make good on your statement that, after reading her book, you are confident you could operate a De Dion. No, I’m >not< trying to be an ass here; rather, I’m suggesting you reach out to old car clubs and see if you can find someone willing to let you drive one.…

I don’t know that the advice regarding a small-motored car is sexist, per se. The book was written in the age of hand-cranked starters, and starting a large car engine took serious muscle. Starting a 190cc lawn mower with a pull-cord is somewhat difficult for my wife; cranking a 700cc engine would be downright hard.

I’m not old enough to know what CARB was like in 1967, but present day CARB is not interested in actually cleaning the air.

Counterpoint:

I remember my stepdad saying something like “oh, that’s a California car, you don’t want it” I asked why. He said something along the lines of all the extra emissions stuff means it’s worse on gas and has less power. Didn’t really understand at that age but do now.

I remember as an east-coast kid in the 80's watching the Price is Right, and in addition to the the floor mats and standard transmission, the cars all came with California Emissions, which I had no idea what that meant. Maybe we are heading back to it!

I’ve seen it get better to, but I believe it’s the tighter industrial controls than even the emissions controls that helped this. I think the original emissions controls were great, but we’re getting to a point were they want to take it from .001% to .000001%. The costs of complying with that is staggering.

People tend to be blind to the politics of CARB. It’s strange. Somehow they’re the magical do gooders.

My state has a right to not have its emissions standards set by California.

In October 2010, an article published in the San Francisco Chronicle exposed the California Air Resources Board (CARB), a department within the California Environmental Protection Agency, for overestimating diesel emissions by 340 percent. The worst part was that this dizzying exaggeration of facts played a major…

Or from a lawsuit to a commercial to promote (and fund?) his company.

Kim claims he was taking evasive action to avoid the rider in front of him...