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Category / Hot Wheels

For Sale! A Rock n Roll Tour Wagon to Spruce up for an Epic Summer Road Trip

Looking for a DIY project you can really put your heart into? I’ve got just the thing for you! Now just hear me out. I know it might look a little rough around the edges, but this beautiful mint green baby has so much potential… You’re looking at a 1951 Tour Wagon that was customised by…

For Sale! A 1960s New York Mets Baseball Car to Zip Around in this Summer

There is very little I know about the sport of baseball. What I do know however, is that we all need one of these giant baseball-shaped “bullpen” cars to run ourselves down to the beach this summer… “A fantastic example of whimsical Major League Baseball marketing from the late 1960s,” used intermittently for legendary World Series games at…

Laundry Basket Cars

Your average household laundry basket and a car– two things you’d never put together, but at the turn of the 19th century, apparently it was all the rage… An automobile enthusiast site dedicated entirely wood-bodied cars, Old Woodies, suggests that if you delve into transportation history, “one can find the apparent ancestors of these quirky vehicles:…

Hot Wheels: Janis Joplin’s Porsche

In 1968, Janis Joplin bought herself a 1965 Porsche 356c Cabriolet, one of 16,674 356c’s ever produced. It had one of the most desirable configurations with convertible spec, disc brakes and the hot engine. She had her roadie, Dave Richards paint it while she was on tour, a psychedelic paint job he called, “the history…

5 of the Rarest and Raddest Motors up for Auction Today

It’s Friday, the perfect time to daydream about a set of hot wheels to ride off at full-speed into the weekend with. RM Auctions has kicked off the auction season in Arizona this week with a eye-popping selection of automobiles. The final bids going under the hammer today so I’ve picked out my favourites because I’m pretty…

Stop Everything, it’s the Tiniest, Coziest Home on Wheels

You know what camping RV’s are missing? A neo-classical columned porch, obviously. And vintage-inspired interior decor perhaps too…. Presenting the Heirloom Tiny Home, a fully-equipped hand-made custom house on wheels made by an innovative young company based in the American city and birthplace of all things quirky, Portland, Oregon. Their motto: Home is where you park it. And…

This Vintage Trailer King lives on a 1920s Fish Farm

I came across this guy when I was discovering the incredible retro photographs of Ryan Schude last week and immediately had to know more about him. Johnny Agnew is not your average vintage collector. Nope, Johnny is what you might call an urban archeologist extraordinaire; the King of junk hunting. His “backyard”, which also happens to be an…

My Tin Can Tourism Club

I had my first tin can tourism experience this summer and ironically, I found it endlessly glamorous! You can read all about my experience here. Personally, I think tin can tourism needs a comeback in a big way. After all, once upon a time, it was considered a pretty cool way to spend your vacation– wasn’t it?! No?…

For Sale! The Three-Eyed Car of Tomorrow that Never Was

It could have been as iconic as the Mustang, as popular as the Cadillac but only 51 Tuckers were ever made before the factory suddenly closed its doors forever in 1948. The Tucker 48 was the American dream of a small entrepreneur who believed he could go up against the automobile giants at a time when the…

The Last Motorcycle Graveyard

This story is both a motorcycle lover’s dream and nightmare. It comes from the depths of the internet, passed around on specialist forums and chat rooms, a tale of an amazing discovery and woeful loss. Our first source is motorcycle enthusiast David Cuff of the website Classic Cycles, who several years ago, came across someone’s flickr account…

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