A hand-picked release of automotive grails timed to Monterey Car Week. Automotive ephemera, curated moments from car culture, added daily through the week.
The wins and the mistakes. The good months and the quiet ones. Not a highlight reel, the actual record.
How a Monterey car-culture brand gets made in real time. The first chapter is close.
Beat the traffic, find the free views, eat like a local. The full guide lands this week.
What people are really wearing trackside this year, shot on the ground in Monterey.
Where the locals actually park it before the crowds arrive. A field guide is coming.
The engines, the crowds, the paddock at dawn. Our first Car Week film is almost ready.
A one-of-one release timed to the biggest week on the Peninsula. Limited pieces, no restocks.
A Detroit bank vault, a tiny company, and a Reasonable Doubt cassette. Why the best thing to do with something worth keeping is to…
I decided a while ago that if I was going to build this thing, I was going to build it where people could watch.…
I have come to believe the opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. A night spotting cars in Akihabara, and everything they…
There is a pair of 2001 Air Jordan 3 True Blues in my closet I will never wear again and will never get rid…
The best meal I had in Tokyo came from a place with six seats and a chef who had, from the look of him,…
People ask why Monterey, usually with a small note of surprise, like they expected me to say Los Angeles or Tokyo or somewhere with…
The vault door is nine feet of steel and brass, and it has not closed in years. I took this photo in Detroit in 2017. This vault stays propped open with a little metal ramp, the kind you would wheel a hand truck over, and behind the door there was a red curtain and a … 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
This story is still in the Vault. It drops during Monterey Car Week, August 7 to 16. How a Monterey car-culture brand gets made in real time. The first chapter is close. New drops all week. Get on the list so you see them first.
This story is still in the Vault. It drops during Monterey Car Week, August 7 to 16. Beat the traffic, find the free views, eat like a local. The full guide lands this week. New drops all week. Get on the list so you see them first.
This story is still in the Vault. It drops during Monterey Car Week, August 7 to 16. What people are really wearing trackside this year, shot on the ground in Monterey. New drops all week. Get on the list so you see them first.
This story is still in the Vault. It drops during Monterey Car Week, August 7 to 16. Where the locals actually park it before the crowds arrive. A field guide is coming. New drops all week. Get on the list so you see them first.
This story is still in the Vault. It drops during Monterey Car Week, August 7 to 16. The engines, the crowds, the paddock at dawn. Our first Car Week film is almost ready. New drops all week. Get on the list so you see them first.
This story is still in the Vault. It drops during Monterey Car Week, August 7 to 16. A one-of-one release timed to the biggest week on the Peninsula. Limited pieces, no restocks. New drops all week. Get on the list so you see them first.
I decided a while ago that if I was going to build this thing, I was going to build it where people could watch. The wins and the mistakes. The good months and the quiet ones. Not a highlight reel. The actual record. So here is the record, as much as I can share this … Read more
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
There is a pair of 2001 Air Jordan 3 True Blues in my closet I will never wear again and will never get rid of. The sole has crumbled. The color has gone the particular yellow that no cleaner reverses. They are covered in scuffs. By any reasonable standard they are trash. I would run … Read more