Published June 9, 2017 in Warp & Woof Exploring the Sundwick Automotive Photo Library: Part II — Customs William Sundwick What is a “custom car?” This library will use the following definition: Custom: any car or light truck that has been altered in appearance significantly from a model available in the manufacturer’s original catalog forContinue reading “Exploring the Sundwick Automotive Photo Library: Part II — Customs”
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Exploring the Sundwick Automotive Photo Library: Part I — Introduction
Published May 19, 2017 in Warp & Woof Exploring the Sundwick Automotive Photo Library: Part I – Introduction William Sundwick Roughly nine years ago, I was a follower of several automobile-related blogs. It was the capstone of a lifetime of following auto journalism. I had long since given up on theContinue reading “Exploring the Sundwick Automotive Photo Library: Part I — Introduction”
Link from Road and Track
First electric hypercar: Rimac Concept One, built in Croatia … sells for less than $2M! Only eight made … so far.Check out Road & Track photo shoot in NYC
Link from Bloomberg
AL, MS, GA can’t become “New Detroit” without UAW! That was real engine of middle class arrival of blue collar workers in 50s and 60s
How Did Cars Become Totems for Advanced Industrial Civilization?
Published March 1, 2017 in Warp & Woof How Did Cars Become Totems for Advanced Industrial Civilization? Personal experience from mid-century America William Sundwick Origins It started in Germany. When Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz, acquaintances from a start-up engineering firm, invented a light-weight internal combustion engine (ICE in today’s parlance), they apparently realized thatContinue reading “How Did Cars Become Totems for Advanced Industrial Civilization?”
Link from Autoblog
Silcon Valley getting cold feet about this car making business? Don’t worry, there’s still the Big Data side of auto informatics …
Link from Chrysler — first post ever for Totems
First post for “Totems” page: 33 mi. all-electric range, almost as good as my Chevy Volt … the plug-in hybrid Chrysler Pacifica
Warp and Woof: Welcome!
Welcome to Warp & Woof, a blog by William Sundwick. It is in the public domain. Free for all. Its purpose is to help its readers negotiate their lives and their futures … in the philosophical, moral and aesthetic realms. It is not scholarly, and neither is it overtly religious. Its author, however, has comeContinue reading “Warp and Woof: Welcome!”