How Did We Forget the First Movie Star?

Picture this: it’s the early 1900s, the silent film era is still just finding its feet, and movie stars are as mythical as unicorns. Enter Florence Lawrence, the “first movie star”, who is about to embark on an epic career, spending the next three decades appearing in almost 300 films. Up until this point, no…

So How Did a Company Selling Rubber Tires Become the World’s Authority on Restaurants?

It actually makes a lot of sense. It’s also genius marketing. But really, how did the world’s most talented chefs and esteemed restaurants and come to be so concerned with the approval (and stars) of a company that sold rubber tires? Let’s go back to the very first issue that Michelin published in 1900. At that time…

Forget Route 66: Get Your Road Trip Kicks on Route 62

Sun-bleached buildings, a hot convertible, and the smell of a dusty roadside town. There’s nothing more American than a stretch of quiet highway, and photographer Ashley Noelle has been on a quest to capture its old haunts before time and decay beat her to it. “I started at the beginning of route 62 and the…

The Legend of the Little Renault that Could

The French have arguably mastered the art of slow living in the name of joie de vivre, and perhaps nowhere else has this been best demonstrated than on the cobblestone streets of Montmartre, which for many years, played host to the world’s slowest race… The story goes that one New Year’s Eve in 1898, a…

Modern BMW gets a Vintage Makeover

I‘m one of those people who, in the event of being elected King and Queen of f**king everything, would pass a law that enforced car manufacturers to design cars like they used to in the good old days of classic car design. And to prove that modern technology cars can look classic and beautiful, I would use…

Steve McQueen’s International Driving License

Here it is, the international Motorcyclist’s license belonging to the King of Cool himself, Steve McQueen. It sold at auction in 2009 for a whopping $42,700 USD. As all McQueen fans would know, the icon was an avid motorcycle and car racer as well as collector, so this is probably the ultimate, most symbolic piece…

And now, the Incredible Camera Van

When you’re driving around in the passenger’s seat of a car looking at the world outside, do you ever wish that you had a camera strapped to your forehead which could instantly take photographs of whatever your brain told it to? Maybe not … but California man Harrod Blank did and he made the concept…

Discovering Ancient Roman Ruins in a German Parking Lot

One of the most visited sights in Germany is the Cologne Cathedral (der Kölner Dom) where it’s easy to spot swaths of tourists taking in its Gothic beauty. But what a lot of visitors to Cologne don’t realize is that right underneath their feet is a functional parking garage that happens to have an added…

A Back to the Future Tour of Paris in the 1950s

Straight out of a Jetsons cartoon, get a load of this Citroen U55 Currus Cityrama tour bus that ruled the roads of Paris in the 1950s. It’s futuristic design was ahead of its time and turned heads wherever it went. No one had seen anything like it before and even today this retro bus looks…

You’ll never guess who owns this Vintage Pink Lamborghini…

I nearly choked on my marshmallow when I saw this beautiful specimen of automotive machinery painted in pale pastel pink on the New York Times online. And you’ll never guess who this baby belongs to! This one-of-a-kind-why-isn’t-it-mine 1974 Lamborghini Espada belongs to Lorrie Stern, a young-at-heart grandmother of five, living in New Rochelle, NY who also…