Congratulations to the Webby Awards winner, and nominees!

The winner, AARP Driver Resource Center: http://www.aarp.org/home-family/getting-around/driving-resource-center/driving-welcome/

Runner Up: BBC Autos, the Roundabout Blog http://www.bbc.com/autos/columns/roundabout-blog

Nominee: Car Crush  http://thecarcrush.com/

car listing programs can be comical when it allows you to check the vehicle options

Bottom line... does the Corvette have a bathroom?

You can't be anything but badass with a skull on the front of your fighter plane

Found on http://historicaltimes.tumblr.com/

Park Drag, a strange name for an 1892 horse carriage, but it's history in Washington DC and New York City high society (Vanderbilt family) is the cause

Some rich guy married one of Vanderbilt's daughters and had the architectural firm that created Central Park make them a 1200 acre mansion and estate in New Jersey. This was the carriage they bought from Brewsters, the eminent carriage makers that started in 1810, and went from horse drawn to horseless and made custom bodies for the elite until the late 30's death of American coachbuilding.

After the carriage was sold at the fall of the gilded age, when the bottomless gold vaults of the Vanderbilts began to echo, it was bought by an eminent restaurant "The Stables" for transport of the most impressive guests of hotels to the restaurant. It also was in about 4 presidential innaugural parades

Photos and info from http://www.rmauctions.com/lots/lot.cfm?lot_id=1063818 via http://thecarcrush.com/blog/2013/11/rm-art-of-the-automobile-the-car-crush

Car and Driver Magazine tried to interview John Force, a for effort, but they only got 8 words out, and John took the reins!

C/D: Well, um . . .

JF: I’m no young chicken. But I live in the gym every other day. Since that crash in ’07. That was the same year that we lost Eric [Medlen] when he died in a crash at Gainesville. And then we realized we have chassis problems. And I got into the business, building chassis. And here I am today. We got that up and running and our motor program is up and running and it’s time for us to get back to winning championships. I won in 2010. And right now Robert Hight and myself and Courtney are all fighting in the Countdown with four races left, and we’ve got a shot at that title.

C/D: So . . .

JF: Look at NASCAR: Those guys at my age, they all retired 10 years ago. And it’s not like I need to be on fire out there for three or four hours. I have to have the energy to react to that tree. That’s where the race is won or lost, on that start line. If you’ve got a good race car. And I always said I could drive these cars blindfolded. And nobody, in the history of this sport, has made as many runs as John Force has. I’m just starting to get good at it. I say I’m just getting started. It’s what I love to do. I’m a road warrior; I love the road. I don’t know how to go home. I’ve been gone so many years, and now my kids, my wife, everybody is out here with me. All my girls are part of John Force Racing.

See what I mean? It's a good read though, and fans of John Force will get a kick out of this. The full article at http://www.caranddriver.com/features/what-id-do-differently-john-force-interview

Happy 429 day!

the new 015 Mustang tail, and compare it to an Iococca edition's smoothness