We have shared many posts about companies that met their demise in the immediate postwar era due to the German economy, misjudging the market, sticking […]
Hidden Treasures
How can you tell the location of a rich cache of vintage iron? Is it a multiple-bay garage on the well-manicured property? Multiple out-buildings in […]
Mammoth of a Man
Friedel Munch is mad. March hare mad. And regular readers will know that if there is one thing we like in an entrepreneur or designer […]
Squandering the Attention Budget
Computers are wonderful things. They have enabled life as we know it today, and have made many things better than they would otherwise be. Computers […]
Volksmotorrader
What vintage motorcycle hails from Germany, started production in the 1920s, has a flat twin air-cooled motor, is found primarily in black, and has shaft […]
Repeat Offenders
Many of us have them. They come, they go, they come again. Like a person with some kind of memory disorder, or some Ad for […]
Simeone Classic Motorcycles
The Simeone Museum has already been covered in this blog as a great place to see vintage sports cars with racing provenance (see 2 degrees […]
Blue Propeller, Red Propeller
So much of the modern auto and motorcycle world evolved from the ashes of WWII, that it was almost like a reset of the industrial […]
Rallying the Trailers
The 2011 BMW MOA International Rally was a good way to spend some quality time with 7500 of your closest friends…during a heatwave. In fact, […]
True Adventure
This post was already decided upon. It was already partially written. An unusually epic tale befitting an epic journey whereupon a few adventurers travel on […]
MuZings
It is gloss black, it is German, it is single cylinder, produced in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and it has an enclosed drivetrain. […]
Getting the Shaft and Other Blessings
It is a rare occasion that an episode from the garage makes it into the main blog, however, this is a worthy exception. It is […]
2 Wheels 2 Work
There are very few positive aspects to $4 per gallon gas, but one of them is the fact that it puts more motorcycles on the […]
Only at Oley
Here in the northeast, the two-wheeled season seems to go from dormant to action-packed in no time flat. It is as if the tightly wound […]
Season Opener
In this neck of the woods, winter cannot leave soon enough. It has a habit in many years of throwing some kind of last gasp […]
Classic Vehicle Math: Calculating Shipping
It is not unusual in the realm of vintage iron for the best deal, the killer deal, to be far away from wherever you are. […]
Of Silver Dolphins and Blue Whales
wikimediaIn the early 1950s, a number of German marques were battling it out both in the showroom, and on the racetrack. The one brand that […]
Classic Winter Break
With the unrelenting miserable winter weather that has hit the northeast this year, it was looking like a decent day with decent roads was in […]
DKW 350
Dampf Kraff Wagen (DKW) has roots that go back to 1906 in Zschopau, Germany where its founder Jorgen Rassmussen had moved from his native Denmark. […]
Dragon Tales
There are places and things about which you have heard so much that you are certain to be disappointed if you ever encounter them. If […]