This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we admire street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Would you park your Ferrari in the City Of Unlimited Door Dings? Well, maybe the not-so-loved Ferrari 400 would be willing to take the punishment of life in San Fran...

Not long ago, I did some detective work and located the house that artist Robert Bechtle used as the backdrop for the Ford wagon in his most famous painting, Gran Torino Alameda . I've got a print of Gran Torino Alameda hanging in my kitchen, so it was pretty exciting to discover that I live just 5 ...

Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Here's a well-preserved Malaise Cadillac for you. Malaise Cadillacs are extremely commonplace in junkyards; they sold in large numbers and were pretty well-mad...

Tuesday Night News Roundup I watched portions of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s confirmation hearing. From what I saw, I thought she performed well. I thought she reflected Obama’s foreign-policy positions extremely well. Senator David Vitter from Louisiana, connected with prostitutio...

This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. It's winter and I'm in Denver, so it's BRAT time! Even though I'm visiting freezing-ass lovely Denver right now, I didn't take these shots. Instead, w...

This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. A Trabant down on the NYC street? You bet! That's right, there's a little Warsaw Pact plastic two-stroker being used to get around New York, and Voodo...

Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Here's a car that should be recognizable to anyone venturing to Alameda's main downtown strip during business hours: an '86 Cressida that lives in a yellow loa...

Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. It's Porsche Day today, and we're getting our very first 924. So far we've seen one 356, a few 912s, a bunch of 911s, some 914s, a couple of 928s, and a pair o...

Did you know that Downing Street has a gift shop? No, neither did I but it does. Back in October, when Gordon Brown was asked what the most popular item sold in it in the last twelve months was and what the profit was, all he woul say was,A small selection of unsubsidised gifts are available for sta...

I said that I had hoped to tweet a bit from Scotweb2. I am terrible at multitasking though so I only managed a miserly two, hurriedly posted during lunch. So instead I will write a report of what went on. First off there was a great talk by James Munro who works on an interesting website, Patient Op...