Hoopty Rides

There is great nobility in the small car and a lot to love about a modest automobile that is a capable performer, knows its place in the w...

Not surprisingly, there is a Japanese mook (magazine/book) dedicated to obsessive tool collecting. Factory Gear Magazine dives into the to...

For Canadian readers, I will be on Discovery Channel Canada's Daily Planet tomorrow to discuss the Urban Guerrilla Drive-In Movie House ...

Will I buy any Snap-On screwdriver? No matter how rusty the shank? No matter how corroded the tip? No matter how diminished the handle? At t...

After posting about the Faurecia concept car on Dinosaurs and Robots , I can not help but to think about the Nash Ambassador that spent some...

Realizing a laundromat is an extreme environment, I was still mighty impressed by the accumulation of dust and lint in my security DVR. No w...

From Mecum Auctions: ...the most outrageous of these creative maverick enterprises was the Turbonique Company of Orlando, Florida. Aimed at ...

Never really being happy with how the brakes turned out on the Mercedes 190b , I decided to overhaul the entire brake system the right way. ...

It is true that my entertaining internet presence, Hooptyrides, has been neglected as of late. As Ed T. - official stalker of Hooptyrides -...

Phil Ross is a Maker's Maker By most measures of handy, I am a reasonably capable fellow if only as defined by the number of my projects...