Rick Muñoz

See the full gallery on posterous This is a car that I can honestly say I’ve have never seen before. When I stumbled across this mid-60s Studebaker the other day, I had absolutely no clue what make or model it was. The chrome ‘Studebaker’ on the trunk gave the marque away, but it was only …

Walking home yesterday, I took a route I’d never followed before. This part of the city, below Geary between Octavia and Van Ness, can be very ramshackle in places, and is very car-oriented. As I was meandering, I ran across this public garden. It’s not the most refined space in SF, but I found it …

These little sculptures are crafted in metal using 3-D printing of mathematical models by crafting and math genius Bathsheba. My colleague and friend Lauren likes to bring neat little artifacts into work, and when she started talking these up a month or two ago, I was intrigued. I didn’t quite grok the magical quality of …

With the impending demoltion of the Transbay Terminal making the news recently, I thought it would be good time to look at the vision of the new Transbay Transit Center. The scale of the new vision is undeniably massive. It starts with the Transit Center itself, but also includes a redevelopment plan that envelopes much of …

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 …

  I encountered this nearly 40-year-old BMW in NOPA, on my way home from the Bay to Breakers festivities last weekend. This model is really the first of what we today know as BMW’s 5-series. I was impressed by the quality of the body and interior, and I think that, impressively, the design still stands …

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