August 2025
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Keith’s Blog: On Vacation
Keith is on a multi-day driving tour with his family. His blog will be back next week. Until then, enjoy these photos from the road.
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Keith’s Blog: From Formula One to Pebble Beach
Cars and big screens have had more than their fair share of my attention this past weekend. Friday, it was “F1 the Movie” at an IMAX theater. Sunday, it was the Pebble Beach Concours streamed live on my 60-inch Sanyo TV. The movie was much more expensive than viewing Pebble from afar. I was mildly…
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One Final Triumph
Given collector-car market trends of recent years, many vintage British cars are slowly becoming more affordable. However, even in such a target-rich environment there are still sleepers — bargains among bargains. The Triumph TR7 and its last variant, the TR8, may be prime examples. That does not mean they are sleeper investments. Triumphs are toys,…
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Please Get Your Car
A common complaint in the collector car hobby involves a car owner who grows frustrated with a restoration shop that takes years and years to complete a restoration, no matter how hard it is pushed. Here’s an example of the complete opposite — an owner who won’t pick up his car. Do-over Bryant McCants wanted…
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A Different World
On September 15 of this year, I’m going to watch the taillights of a fully laden vehicle leave our condo garage, head west on SW Market Street and eventually merge onto Interstate 5 south. I know what taillights they won’t be. They won’t be the iconic rear of our Land Rover Disco II, as that…
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Keith’s Blog: All-Inclusive or A La Carte?
For the past couple of weeks, you’ve been telling me your preferences when it comes to collector car tours. You prefer point-to-point for the routes, but hub-and-spoke for the convenience. You like 1974 as a cutoff date so that all the cars have a similar performance envelope. You wouldn’t mind stretching it a little to…
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Keith’s Blog: What Cutoff Year on a Collector Car Tour?
There is no shortage of car tours. They range from no-cost afternoon club tours to expensive, all-inclusive, super-deluxe, five-star to five-star routes with entries limited to modern supercars. When the first California Mille was held in 1990, it offered one of the few opportunities to exercise your classic car with other similar vehicles. As the…