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☆ Daniel Wu Turned His ‘Cute Little Car’ Into a Showstopper
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Carolyn Fong For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ This Rare Vintage Pickup Towed a Drag-Racing Legend
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Todd Midler For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Meet the Beetle a Car Museum Director Takes on Joy Rides
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Ethan Gulley For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Before Jeeps Became SUVs, They Looked Like This
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Francesca Forquet For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ $250? Seems Like a Good Deal for a Classic Jaguar.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Jamie Pearl For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Meet El Hemi, the Dodge Challenger That’s Been to Venezuela and Back
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Devin Christopher For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Juan J. Escalante, 58, an international construction equipment salesman living in Miami, on his 1970 Dodge Hemi Challenger R/T, as told to A.J. In 1969, my father Jose’s best friend moved to Detroit to work for Chrysler. After six months, he called and said to my father, “Why don’t you come up here? So my father sold his 1968 Dodge Dart, quit his job, and we moved as a family to Michigan when I was 4. My father went to school and then got a gig with a Chrysler supplier in Michigan.

☆ Driving This Thing, She Always Takes the Long Way
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Maïwenn Raoult For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Elizabeth Weinberg , 40, a Los Angeles-based photographer, on her 1974 Volkswagen Thing, as told to A.J. I have a son, so I need a safe, reliable car. For years, I looked around for a Mercedes from the ’70s or ’80s, what they call million-mile cars. Then I came across the Thing; I saw a picture of one online. So, in 2020, I started looking.

☆ His 1960 Corvette Is At Home in a Public Brooklyn Garage
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Nate Palmer For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jan Hyde , 82, a retired real-estate investment banker and consultant, on his 1960 Chevrolet Corvette, as told to A.J. If I had to argue one reason why the Chevrolet Corvette exists on this planet, it would be racing. When I was growing up in Pittsburgh, there was a wealthy Gulf Oil executive named Grady Davis who started a Corvette racing team around 1961. He had two noteworthy drivers: a Washington, D.C.-based racer named Dr. Dick Thompson (they called him “The Flying Dentist”) and a guy named Don Yenko , who owned a Chevrolet dealership outside my hometown called Yenko Chevrolet.

☆ His Mercury Cougar Puts the Car in Carpe Diem
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Emanuel Hahn For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Joe Carter , 63, a real-estate investor living in Moreno Valley, Calif., on his 1970 Mercury Cougar convertible, as told to A.J. I was raised by a single mom in Hollywood, Calif. We were poor, and I used to go to the 49-cent theater to see rerun movies. That is where I first saw a Mercury Cougar, driven across the big screen by the actress Diana Rigg . It was love at first sight—the car, I mean, although Diana Rigg came in a close second. A song in the movie was, “We Have All the Time in the World.” The thing is, we don’t.

☆ She Gave Her Van a 1970s Overhaul, Shag Carpet Included
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Natalie Behring For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Soumaya Majout Bent , 35, who lives in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Santa Barbara, Calif., and is a student planning on opening a restaurant in Santa Barbara, on her 1977 Dodge custom van, as told to A.J. It was the week of my wedding, and my fiancé and I were driving in Chicago. We saw this van parked on a lawn with a “for sale” sign. I was always mentioning how I wanted a van to go road tripping. I yelled, “Stop the car!” When we approached the van, I noticed two other people looking at it.

☆ His Golden Hawk Evokes an Era When Studebaker Soared
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Bryan Banducci For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ryan Kerrigan , 50, a managing director of Kerrigan Advisors, an automotive retail transaction services firm, living in Incline Village, Nev., on his 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk, as told to A.J. The campus is next to South Bend, Ind. South Bend was caught in the past. It had these big, hulking factories that were defunct, and the most noteworthy was what remained of the massive Studebaker factory. That is what initiated my interest in the Studebaker story.

☆ He Saved His Father’s Rare Car From the Junkyard, and Built a Museum Around It
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs David Williams For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Terry Gale , 62, a retired restaurant and maintenance company owner living in Elizabeth, Colo., on his 1954 Nash Ambassador, as told to A.J. When I was growing up, my dad worked at a Nash car dealership in Price, Utah, where our family lived. In 1971, he traded in his car for a Nash Ambassador, paying an additional $50. He drove the car for a few years, then, one day, my sister-in-law was driving it and the oil pump went out. We had the car towed to our farm and it sat there for 18 years.

☆ When His Father Couldn’t Drive Anymore, a Torino Gave Him a Lift
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Gavin Mcintyre For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ali Faile , 49, a healthcare executive living in Mount Pleasant, S.C., on his 1968 Ford Torino, as told to A.J. My parents, Bob and Jo Faile, got married in March of 1967, in Winnsboro, S.C. That fall, my father went to the Adams Motor Co. Ford dealership, where his father worked in the service department, and bought a Ford Torino. I have a picture of the original bill of sale, dated Oct. 3, 1967, with a cost of $3,038.50.

☆ Her Drag-Racing Dreams Ride on a Motorcycle
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Kyna Uwaeme For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Dystany Spurlock , of Goldvein, Va., on her Buell National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Pro Stock drag-racing motorcycle, as told to A.J. I have worked as an actor, a model and I drive a tractor trailer. One thing I have always wanted to do was race Pro Stock NHRA motorcycles, which is the top-ranked motorcycle drag-racing series in the world. I have been drag racing bikes for a long time at lower levels, and last year I was with a team and things were not going as planned. I learned through one of my sponsors about someone selling a Pro Stock team.

☆ Is It a Mustang? A Station Wagon? It’s Both.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Erik Isakson For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Richard Kaneshiro , 65, a retired dental equipment business owner living in San Pedro, Calif., on his Mustang G.T. 350 station wagon, as told to A.J. Of all the cars I have owned, the Mustang G.T. 350 station wagon draws the most attention. Is it a real Mustang?

☆ His Porsche Looks Like a Glass of Rosé on Wheels
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Winni Wintermeyer For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

John Paolo Canton , 40, head of communications at Polestar (an electric-vehicle brand recently launched by Volvo Cars), who lives in San Francisco, on his 1968 Porsche 912, as told to A.J. In 2005, I met a new friend named Pete at the Road America racetrack in Wisconsin. He had a Ducati dealership and was involved in racing, and I worked with racing motorcycles. On the day I met him, he had this Porsche 912 with him. He had restored the car and painted it a strawberry-red that was highly unusual, not just for a Porsche, but for any car.

☆ She Named Her Classic Cadillac After a Legendary Burlesque Dancer
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Yuri Hasegawa For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Leslie Zemeckis , an actor, documentarian and author living in Montecito, Calif., on her 1954 Cadillac Eldorado convertible, as told to A.J. Years ago, I wrote a book and made a documentary about the history of burlesque, and I acquired a large collection of clothes from past burlesque stars. A friend of mine had an old Cadillac, and when I saw that car, I thought: “I get it.” It had that same vibe. This friend was the one who found my 1954 Cadillac at a dealership in Canada. I thought: This car is for me.

☆ The Super-Rare Lamborghini He Found at the End of an Oregon Dirt Road
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Yuri Hasegawa For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jeff Meier, a 62-year-old automotive consultant living in Los Angeles, on his 1969 Lamborghini Miura S, as told to A.J. In 2000, I was visiting relatives in Oregon. My aunt told me about this guy who owned an old orange Lamborghini. My sister knew everyone in this little town, and she was able to find him. There was this long dirt road, and a shack that looked deserted.

☆ What Makes His AMC Gremlin X a Collectible? A Blue Jeans Interior
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Saeed Rahbaran For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Manny Athans , a retired peace officer living in North Las Vegas, Nev., on his 1973 AMC Gremlin X Levi’s edition, as told to A.J. I would go to car shows and see these kinds of cars everywhere. One day, I decided that I wanted to gravitate toward the unusual. I wanted to stand out. Having grown up a teenager in the 1970s, I remembered the Gremlin.

☆ He Went Through the Fire (Two, Actually) for His Classic Chevrolet
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Justin Clemons For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

David Graves , 66, a retired oil-field services facility manager living outside Dallas, on his 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air, as told to A.J. In May of 1955, my father, Hugh, bought a new 1955 Chevrolet, and when I was born, this was the car in which I came home from the hospital. Something must have happened during that car ride, because I have been a fan of the 1955 Chevrolet ever since.

☆ His Grandmother’s Ford Thunderbird Took 40 Years to Restore
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Matt Martian For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Rick Steiner , 65, a retired engineer living in Tucson, Ariz., on his 1955 Ford Thunderbird, as told to A.J. My grandmother was a World War II Gold Star wife. What that means is, she was the wife of a soldier killed while serving his country. My grandmother raised four children and put them all through college, through engineering school, law school, dental school and nursing school. When she finally got her last child through school, she bought this 1955 Thunderbird, which was a shock to everybody.

☆ A Rare BMW Model Driven by James Bond—and a Retired Surgeon From Missouri
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Christopher Smith For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

C. Daniel Smith , 67, a recently retired orthopedic surgeon living in St. Joseph, Mo., on his 2002 BMW Z8, as told to A.J. Orthopedic surgeons have quite a bit of time between cases, and sometimes, to take the edge off, we would talk in the surgeon’s lounge about anything but work. I have a good surgeon friend named Steve Long who is, like me, nuts about cars, and oftentimes we would talk about our favorites. One day, we happened on the BMW Z8.

☆ He Lost His Father’s Classic Corvette in a Coin Toss, Then Got a Second Chance
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Nathan Perkel For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Keith Tholin , 73, a retired medical device executive living in San Clemente, Calif., on his 1955 Chevrolet Corvette, as told to A.J. He would buy these old cars and he would teach my brother and I how to work on them. He taught us how to tune up the engines, how to paint a car. Over the years, while my brother and I were in school, he probably had five or six C1 [first generation, from 1953 to 1962] Corvettes. When my brother and I went to college in Illinois, my father was in San Francisco and a number of times my brother and I drove these Corvettes back and forth.

☆ She Turned a 93-Year-Old Ford Into a Hot Rod
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-07 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Tracy Nguyen For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Stacie Depner , 46, a mechanical engineer and medical device product-development director living in Anaheim, Calif., on her 1930 Ford Model A hot rod, as told to A.J. When I was in my second year in college, I was living on University Avenue in Minneapolis and every weekend I would see old cars drive by. I found out that everyone was going to Porky’s, a famous drive-in, for cruise nights. I thought: “I wonder what other cool car events are going on around here?” That’s when I found out about Back to the 50’s, which is one of the biggest annual car shows in the country. I first went in 1996, and this was a eureka moment for me.

☆ McLaren, Space Coupe, Presidential Convertible: Our 10 Favorite My Ride Cars of 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( A.J. Baime | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The WSJ’s weekly My Ride column has for nearly a decade profiled interesting people who have a surprising story about a motorized vehicle. With a new year arriving, we look back at some of the most memorable stories of 2022. She never intended to own a Chevrolet Corvair this awesomeDuring the pandemic, Citlalli “Lolly” Gonzalez decided to try to achieve the goal of owning a classic car. She bought this 1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza for just $5,000. For her My Ride photos, she re-created that vision.

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