When it comes to single-issue blogs, I don’t think you can get more specific than The Brown Car Blog, where Ben Kraal highlights all things automotive and brown.
And yet, somehow, there’s a wide variety. I liked the thoughtfulness of this post, for example, on the 1967 Plymouth Sport Fury’s badge:
Consider this: this badge was designed by hand. It would have been transferred from a drawing to a mold by a toolmaker, by hand. After each badge was mass-produced, in all likelyhood in a factory entirely owned by Chrysler, it would have been painted and polished by hand. Each badge would be applied to each car by hand and not by some double-sided tape but by actual holes in the panel.
They really don’t make them like they used to.
Or, bathe in the wonder that is the factory interior of a Porsche 928:
I can’t say that a brown car would really be “me” (heck, when I last bought a car, I bought the second-cheapest on the lot) but I truly admire some of the stuff that Kraal finds.
(via Coudal)
Grant Hamilton
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