While in California to check out Billetproof Nor-Cal last weekend, I had the chance to visit The Island That Rust Forgot. It didn’t take long to find this ’67 Barracuda convertible and today’s find. (Read More…)
Tag: Alameda
Back when I lived in Alameda, California (also known as “The Island That Rust Forgot”), I photographed and posted nearly 600 interesting street-parked cars and trucks on Jalopnik. The first one was this Cadillac Cimarron d’Oro, back in May of ’07; the next 499 may be found here. I moved to Denver last year… which means the ITRF has had ample time to add many new DOTS candidates. I was on the island for a very brief time over the weekend and managed to shoot a couple of them. (Read More…)

When I returned to my old DOTS stomping grounds to help defile a once-proud race track, I figured I might find an interesting street-parked car or two on the Island That Time Forgot. First there was this semi-custom ’62 Continental, but then I spotted the real prize. (Read More…)

Back in my Jalopnik days, I started the whole interesting-street-parked-car-photos thing with the original Down On The Street series. At that time, all the cars I shot were located in my old hometown on Alameda, California, and I got up to 600 or so before moving to Denver last summer. Now I’m back in Alameda, in preparation for my role working the 185-car Sears Pointless 24 Hours of LeMons race, and it wasn’t long before I spotted this fine machine parked near downtown. (Read More…)

I snapped this shot of an Austin Mini (technically a Morris 850) and a Buick Electra 225 parked side-by-side in an Alameda, California parking lot before I left the West Coast, and every time I look at it I wonder: would I rather have an early Mini or a Malaise Era Electra? I can’t decide! (Read More…)

I photographed and posted a total of 578 old cars and trucks on the streets of Alameda, California, for the Down On The Street series before I moved to Denver and then left Jalopnik. Now I’m back in California for a LeMons race, and Alameda has been restocked with new examples of classic street-parked iron. (Read More…)

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el scotto - The are a few who don’t think “Jermyn Street” is spelled funny when you pronounce it and shop there and also understand some...
Numbers_Matching - Had a ride in a 500E back in the day that I will never forget. This one is on my short list.
AFX - “If you aren’t making mistakes you aren’t trying hard enough.” That would look perfect as one of those...
Pan - So, you don’t like Rover products. Your attitude tends to make the entire article irrelevant. Repeating the old canard that Toyotas have replaced...
el scotto - I would be a Magnificent Bastard driving one. Red with a stunning blonde. Sir William would approve.
Ratsnake - Around this time Porsche also consulted on the Volvo Modular Engine. Of course, I’d rather have a 500e.
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el scotto - How many auto consumers did the math and became EV buyers?
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el scotto - Oh Lord! If the UAW had done something like this we’d have 70+ comments. At least 69 of the 70 comments would be “the usual suspects”.