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☆ He Rolls in a Toyota Built for Japanese VIPs
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Anna Powell Denton For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Joe Molina , 67, the retired founder and president of PR firm JMPR Public Relations living in Carmel, Ind., on his 1997 Toyota Century V12, as told to A.J. The Toyota Century is like the unicorn of cars. But they’ve never seen one, and those who know what it is can’t believe their eyes. The model made its debut in 1967 on the 100th birthday of Toyota’s founder, thus its name. My specific Century’s generation was the first Japanese production car ever built with a V-12 engine.

☆ She Turned Her Humble Honda Hatchback Into a Head-Turner
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Matt Martian For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Sally McNulty, a service adviser at a Ferrari dealership living in Glendale, Ariz., on her custom 2000 Honda Civic Hatchback, as told to A.J. I grew up in a small Missouri town, what they call the boonies. There were not a lot of imported cars. I worked at a car dealership and one day somebody asked me if I’d like to go to a track day, because they knew I liked cars. I took my Chevy Cobalt to the racetrack, and I had a blast.

☆ She Put Her Own Spin on a Classic Porsche
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Jj Casas For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Kathryn Koehler , 49, an engineering director at Netflix living in Palo Alto, Calif., on her 1972 Porsche 911E, as told to A.J. When I was growing up in Clearwater, Fla., my uncle and my parents were involved with a local Porsche club. I had a long commute to school, so it was a foregone conclusion that I was going to need a car. The day I got my driver’s license, at 16, I came home and there in the garage was this 1972 Porsche with a “Happy Birthday” sign draped across the headlights. The garage was full of my friends, and when I stopped hyperventilating, I realized how special this car was.

☆ His Dodge Viper Is an Apex Predator on the Road
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Eric Wagner For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Emerson Moser , 46, of Cincinnati, general counsel for Meridian Bioscience, on his 2010 Dodge Viper ACR, as told to A.J. My dad was a General Motors engineer, and we spent a lot of time going to racetracks and car shows. When I was in college at Purdue in the 1990s, I was walking across campus one day when I saw a Dodge Viper on display in the Engineering Mall. I thought: This is the coolest, most exotic American car I have ever seen. It had a V-10 engine partially developed by Lamborghini.

Charlie Poekel, 74, an attorney and author living in Marion, Mass., and Palm Beach, Fla., on his 1941 Dodge pickup, as told to A.J. Before I was born, my father had an appliance store on Bloomfield Avenue in Caldwell, N.J. He had two degrees in engineering and worked for Curtiss-Wright aviation, but because he was an electrical engineer, he opened this store to supplement his income. He sold radios, ranges and refrigerators, and he had a sign above the door: Poekel Electric.

☆ A Classic Mercedes Helped Him Shift Gears in Work and Life
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Martin Albert For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

William Li , 53, co-host of the television culinary series “Lucky Chow” and co-founder of the wellness brand the Hao Life, who lives in Columbia County, N.Y., on his 1988 Mercedes-Benz 560 SL, as told to A.J. To me, cars played an outsize role in the movies and TV shows of that era, and one model in particular. I remember seeing Richard Gere in “American Gigolo”—he drove a Mercedes 450 SL. The character Jennifer Hart in “Hart to Hart” was always in her Mercedes 450 SL. As a teenager, I thought that car typified success.

☆ He Bought His Rare British Sports Car While Sitting in California Traffic
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Elkin Jaramillo For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Dominick Infante , 57, of Wynnewood, Pa., director of corporate communications at Subaru of America, on his 1972 Jensen Interceptor III, as told to A.J. I would come to a construction stop, check my phone and sometimes I would get reception. I was bidding on a Jensen Interceptor. Normally, you would have someone check out the car to make sure it was in good shape. This would be an impulse buy—if I could win the auction.

☆ A Teenage Drag-Racing Champion Racks Up Trophies With Her Chevy
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Andrew White For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Danika Fickler, 18, a freshman at Colorado State University, on her 1986 Chevrolet S-10 Blazer drag racer, as told to A.J. I did a lot of growing up at Heartland Motorsports Park in Topeka, Kan. My parents honeymooned at this racetrack when they married in 1993. Both of them have been drag racing since before I was born. My mom was a class winner at Heartland in 2005, 2006 and 2007, and my dad won a National Hot Rod Association [NHRA] national event there in 2019. When I go to Heartland now, people come up to me all the time to tell me that they knew me when I was a baby.

☆ His McLaren Is One of the Hardest Cars in the World to Get
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Melody Timothee For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Gil Dezer , 47, a real-estate developer living in Miami, on his 2020 McLaren Speedtail, as told to A.J. Back in the early 1990s, McLaren put out a car called the F1. At that time, McLaren built race cars only, and this was the company’s first real production road car. McLaren only made 106 of these cars. I had a poster of it on my wall, and I dreamt that someday I could own one.

☆ Her ‘Moulin Rouge’ Muscle Car Helped Give Her the Nickname ‘Cuda Girl’
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Ramie Faris For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Joy Curran , an executive assistant at Johnson & Johnson living in North Brunswick, N.J., on her 1970 Plymouth AAR ‘Cuda, as told to A.J. Growing up in New Jersey, my father and my mother’s brother had quite a few muscle cars, and by age 6, I was hooked. In particular, I gravitated to Chrysler muscle cars like the Dodge Challenger and the Plymouth Barracuda. I was able to save some money, and the first car I bought, when I was 16, was a 1970 Challenger. But unfortunately because I had a part-time job and school, I was not able to pay for the upkeep.

☆ Her Classic Roadster Languished for Decades. Now She Hits the Road in Style.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( A.J. Baime | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Melon Doris , 73, an architectural designer living in Beaufort, S.C., on her 1962 MG MGA 1600 Mk II, as told to A.J. In 1968, I graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. I always loved cars, even though no one in my family knew anything about them. He taught me to drive in that car. I was living in Brooklyn, and I needed a car to get to my first job on Long Island.

☆ A ‘Pig’ at a Wedding? His Vintage Land Cruiser Is a Party Animal.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( A.J. Baime | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TJ Scholand , 51, who lives outside Fort Collins, Colo., and is a marketing manager for Netgate, which develops network security products, on his Toyota Land Cruisers, as told to A.J. I was living near Golden, Colo., and one morning it began to snow. All of a sudden, a stranger showed up with a truck with a snowplow mounted on the front. I had no idea what the truck was, but I knew it was really cool. That is how I met my then-neighbor Bill.

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