Dry air, and a temperate climate, combine to make southern California a vintage vehicle mecca. On a recent trip, after about a year locked down […]
AFM
These pages generally cover the world of German cars and motorcycles from the postwar period through to the 1970s with occasional forays into the 1980s. […]
Vintage German Winterfest
A curated selection of vintage German automobiles celebrating the Holidays!
Bastert – The Single Track Car
Over the years, this blog has featured German cars with motorcycle underpinnings (see BMW 700 Heart of a bike, body of a car and […]
Goliath GP700
Goliath was a subsidiary brand of Bremen-based Borgward (See The Many Faces of Borgward). Although Goliath had produced passenger cars before WWII, it was […]
Zundapp GS125
The term GS, short for Gelande Strasse, when applied to motorcycles, has become synonymous with large and imposing swiss army knife bikes from BMW. The […]
The Bavarian Sports Sedan is Born
Originally posted back in 2011, and now updated… Depending on who you believe, the BMW 1500 was simultaneously the father of the performance sedan, the […]
W194 – Victory Over Vultures
As the story goes, driver Karl Kling failed to notice a group of vultures at the side of the road during the 1952 Carrera Pan […]
Back From The Brink – The BMW Slash 5
Today, one of the most iconic classic motorcycles is the BMW /5. You can probably find one within an easy drive of anywhere in the […]
Durkopp MD200
The Durkopp brand started in 1867, and has been covered here before (see DURKOPP – MOTORIZED CYCLES TO MOPEDS ). Motorcycles were produced into the […]
The Early Early 911
The production Porsche 911 did not appear until the mid 1960s, but as early as 1959, work was beginning on the successor to the popular […]
A Grand Goodbye
Although we have covered Hoffmann in general here before, the flagship Hoffmann Governeur S300 had very bad timing. to say the least. It was the […]
The Unexpected
We have previously featured collections and museums that are hidden, or that perhaps have surprising content, but we at least went looking for them. We […]
Audi 100
The combination of companies that were brought together to form Audi have been well covered here before (see A Most Important Failure, Audi F103, NSU […]
Hexe
Hexe produced mopeds and small motorcycles in Duisburg Germany, from 1955 to 1966. There had been a previous Hexe in the 1920s which was unrelated. […]
2 Doors to 4 – Porsche Reluctant Persistence
Today it is pretty commonplace to see a 4 door Porsche on the road, and it is not uncommon for even ardent Porschephiles to accept, […]
Mercedes Benz SL-X
There are a lot of great-looking cars that never made it to production throughout the history of the automobile. The Mercedes Benz SL-X is one […]
2 Wheels and 200 MPH
Today, you can walk into most major motorcycle dealerships, and purchase a motorcycle that will do 200 MPH. You even have your choice of options […]
Zundapp Citation
IThe Zundapp Citation was clearly a derivative of the Horex Imperator, and was reportedly only branded a Zundapp in order to work around the legal […]
Platform As Canvas
Somehow, the cars of mid-20th-century Germany lend themselves more than the products of any other nation, to become platforms for Art. Why? I do not […]