Automotive culture through the Pursuit lens: builds, drives, project cars, and the machines worth chasing, from Monterey and beyond.
Automotive culture through the Pursuit lens: builds, drives, project cars, and the machines worth chasing, from Monterey and beyond.
It is almost eleven at night in Akihabara and the towers are still screaming light onto the street. Somewhere above me a billboard is selling a game I will never play. Below it, along the curb, the cars start to arrive the way they do most nights, one at a time, each one finding its … Read more
My car is a piece of junk, and I mean that with my whole heart. It leaks something I have not identified yet. There is a rattle that shows up around forty miles an hour and vanishes the second I bring it to anyone who might diagnose it. The interior has a smell that is … Read more
The Porsches were parked on a Hollywood backlot, on a fake New York street that has stood in for a hundred movies, under the clock tower seen in Back to the Future. A 1967 911 sat where a taxi should have been. A Rothmans rally car on the dirt street of an old western movie, … Read more
For a couple of months after I lost my job, I mostly sat with the quiet. Not the peaceful kind. The other kind, the one that fills a room after the thing that gave your days a shape just disappears. One week I had meetings and deadlines and a reason to open the laptop before … Read more