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2025 Early Times Picnic

Early Times Picnic celebrating 60 years!

Celebrating 60 Years! I really dig this show. Well, it really isn’t a show as much as it is an event. For decades the Early Times car club has been hosting a picnic at the Compton Hunting and Fishing Club…

The Complete Book of Corvette

The complete book of Corvette Motorbooks

We all have those stories. When we first saw a Corvette. America’s sports car. Maybe it was in black and white on the the CBS series “Route 66” with Martin Milner and pals for 4 seasons from 1960 to 1964.…

A Collection of American Classics

With a History of the Tail Fin Design On this Sunday Drive with the Mercifuls we land at a private collection of American Classics. If hooded headlights and finned tail lights are your thing, then this gallery is for you!…

Sunday Drive to the Petersen

The petersen automotive museum

Today we take a drive over to the Petersen Automobile Museum. Here are several of the exhibits ending with a really creative installation. We start off with “Best in Low” an exhibit of legendary lowrider icons of the street and…

The Last Cruise

The last cruise at the 2024 Cruisin For A Cure

At the 25th Cruisin’ For A Cure It’s been a long run. Debbie Baker and her crew of volunteers have hosted this important event. An event that can easily say they have saved nearly 1000 men’s lives. It all started…

The 2024 SEMA Show Review

The 2024 SEMA Show

Today I present my two days at the 2024 SEMA Show. I went to the SEMA Show to support SEMA Cares a charitable arm of the SEMA Organization which I am a committee member. SEMA Cares is a fundraiser for…

A One-Owner Camaro Finds Rarity

Dave Smith's L30 M20 '67 Camaro

David Smith didn’t realize that the car he bought was as rare as it appears. He couldn’t wait for the new Chevy Camaro to be available at his local Chevy dealer. When they got their first arrivals he was all…

FUN WITH PINKY

Fun with Pinky Swear at the Grand National Truck Show

AT THE 2024 GRAND NATIONAL TRUCK SHOW We had the opportunity to roll with Pinky Swear around the second annual Grand National Truck Show at the Los Angeles Fairplex, in Pomona, California.

Home Built ’47 Plymouth Kustom

Jordi's Home Built Kustom

I’ve seen this car before at a variety of shows and today we caught up with Jordi as he pulled into the Historic Main Street Garden Grove Car Show. Quite interesting build with it’s eggshell red oxide paint and gold…

Randy Palmer’s 1960 Dodge Power Wagon

1960 Dodge W100 Power Wagon

Today at the 6th Annual Kiwanisland Car Show I saw this incredibly detailed 1960 Dodge Power Wagon owned by Randy and Ellen Palmer. We don’t usually do a Motor Minute on a stock restoration, but the story of this vehicle…

1953 Chevy Tin Woodie Wagon

1953 Chevrolet Tin Woodie Wagon

I caught up with Alex Vanichuk as he made a stop on his week and a half road trip from Langley, British Columbia Canada to go to Donut Derelicts saturday morning. He and his wife left the boys at home,…

Hot Rods and Warplanes

Hot Rods on the Tarmac

It was hot out on the airstrip today. Mark this day July 20, 2024 because as I walk around these beautiful pieces of rolling tin my senses are time traveling back to the euphoria of post-war America. My eyes tend…