Category: Letter from the Editor

For the longest time, I’ve wanted to open a car storage warehouse.  Something fun.  More than just a place where people can keep their special-interest cars, a place of camaraderie.  […]

Leaving Monterey has always been bittersweet.  First, I love the area and never really want to leave.  But second – it always feels like an ending.  It’s like the end […]

Many of us are guilty of just wingin’ it.  But for a venture to be truly successful, I think most will agree, a plan is in order.  This is true […]

I meet a lot of people who want to start a car show.  They have great ideas, grand ideas, lots of caviar dreams, as Robin Leach would say, but it’s […]

Steve Contarino has been a car enthusiast for as long as he can remember. Like all of us, he revels in attending swap meets, scouring curio shops, and checking out auctions […]

We’ve showcased quite a nice little number of events and companies in recent weeks selling and consigning various needful things for the automobilia collector – it’s been fun, and I […]

It’s always exciting to see new ventures getting underway, and that’s exactly what Steve Contarino is up to with his new Automobilia Vintage.  Like most of us, Steve is a […]

They are, of course, one in the same – collectibles and needful things.  And, oh, how they can get their claws into you.  I’ve been collecting car junk and related […]

If you remember that name, chances are, you’re no spring chicken.  Robert Urich was one of my television heroes growing up – I watched him as “Spenser: For Hire” in […]