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Early cars, fashion on display at the Petersen

Automotivated, a new exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, traces the evolution of clothes worn in cars--from the bulky circus-tent stuff people had to wear to keep from freezing to death in the jangly, open-topped conveyances of 100 years ago, up to the height of the European Concours in the 1920s and '30s, when what you and your date wore was just as important to winning best of show as the styling of your Delahaye/Delage/Talbot Lago. “In the earliest days of the automobile, you were sitting on the car, you weren't sitting in it,” said Leslie Kendall, curator at the Petersen. So the first section of the exhibit shows people (mannequins dressed as people) in heavy, practical overcoats, scarves and goggles.

Project Car Hell, There's No Hell Like Simca Hell Edition: Aronde Pickup or Vedette Trianon?

We're staggering back into the sulfurous quagmire that is life in the Project Car Hell garage, and we're feeling a need to follow up German luxury coupes with near-total value depreciation with one of the mainstays of Project Car Hell: French cars! And not just your ordinary everyday Peugeots and Renaults but products of the French car manufacturer with the most tangled lineage: Simca. The Soci

OSVehicle – the flat-pack car you can build in an hour

Ever dreamt of building your own car, maybe even designing the bodywork and literally bolting it together yourself? Then the Open Source Vehicle – or OSVehicle – is here to help. This is quite literally a flat-pack car.