A very original sculpture from Renault. It is wonderfully bulbous, yet a balanced shape of convex and concave surfaces. The design blurs the distinction between sheet metal and grille, with the cheese grater-like piercings above the headlights and in the chrome side inlet. The stance is lithe, agile, and predatory but not domineering. The chrome …
Category Archives: auto
On the Street: ’51 Woody Country Squire
Not only a cherry, authentic woody, but the guy has a wood surfboard on the rack. A traveling time capsule, driving down the 101.
Now thats wtf I call a car commercial.
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On the Street: 65 VW Notchback
They sure don’t make ‘em like they used to. When I was a kid, the family for a brief time owned a 1971 VW Squareback, essentially a 2-door wagon version of this exact car. I remember liking it, despite its semi-jalopy status (if I recall correctly, the paint was, uh, less than perfect). It …
On the Street: 1949 DeSoto Custom Club Coupe
Caught this one driving past me on 16th in the Mission. A real time capsule. From an old article about the car: The DeSoto Custom Club Coupe, of which 18,431 were built, tipped the scales at 3585 lbs and was priced at $2,156. The 6-passenger car … had chrome trim that distinguished it from the …
Mini Countryman
I like the white one with the black rims. Soundtrack is good too.
On the street: A cherry 1956 Cadillac
When I saw this Cadillac parked on my street, I was pretty blown away. You rarely run into a driver of this vintage, rarity, and quality. The cherry body, the glam two-tone paint, perfect chrome, gorgeous whitewalls, even the period-correct black-on-yellow license plate. Just magnificent. I knew it to be of mid-50s vintage. But for …
