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Santa Slayed: The SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT Controversy

Silent Night, Deadly Night was one of the many slasher movies inspired by the success of Halloween. It wasn’t the first horror film to take place entirely around Christmas (1972’s [...]

getting heavy with stupid people or Jesus freaks

“I have never seen much point in getting heavy with stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don’t bother me. In a world as weird and cruel [...]

Legend of The Lucky Cigarette

The practice of choosing one cigarette in a fresh pack to be a “lucky” cigarette by flipping it upside down is old. But how old is it, exactly? We’ll dig [...]

NAPCO Pickup Trucks: The Forgotten 4×4s

In the late ’40s and early ’50’s the name NAPCO really stood for something in the automotive world. But there is a good chance you have never heard of them [...]

snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder

“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning [...]

Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year…

“Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, [...]

the Real-Life Inspirations for A Nightmare on Elm Street Are Even More Terrifying

The American horror revolution of the 1970s and ’80s brought a new strain of realism to the genre. The fantastical monsters of the past made way for slashers inspired by [...]

Poor Man’s Drag Racing Class: The Altereds

Gone forever, one of the nastiest drag racing classes of all time, the Altered Coupes/Sedans & Competition Coupes/Sedans. The baddest of the bad, including the nitro burning Double A Fuel [...]

Winter is Coming… is your dune buggy ready?

When winter is coming, but you’re not ready to give up cruising in your dune buggy, you throw a set of tracks on the back. Breezin’ Performance Ski Wear 1980 [...]

‘Landman’ Gives the West Texas Oil Fields the ‘Yellowstone’ Treatment

Taylor Sheridan became one of TV’s most powerful creators with an epic saga set on a ranch, but his latest protagonist has little patience for agrarian fantasy. The landowner giving [...]

Bronco Busting

“Fighting to remain in the driver’s seat is Steve Rook, who appears much like a rodeo cowboy taking his chances on a bucking bronco while going over a makeshift ramp [...]

A Set of Corn Flakes Doubles Blowing Past The Truck Stop

If you had to name one of the most influential companies in trucking history, Consolidated Freightways (CF) would be near the top. While the trucking company, CF is no longer [...]

Malcom McLean: The Man Who Changed The World

Malcolm McLean, was born on November 14, 1913, in Maxton, North Carolina, the son of a farmer. A natural entrepreneur, he got his start selling his mother’s eggs on commission [...]

Time of our life

Little did we know at the time that wrenching on a $400 muscle car would be some of the best time of our life. Hurst Olds 1969 Vintage Men’s T-Shirt

The Legendary Crower 8

The Crower 8 is one of the most fascinating, yet largely forgotten, engine projects in motorsport history. Built by Bruce Crower, a legendary engine designer, the Crower 8 was an [...]

Sounds Magazine

Sounds Magazine was a UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 to 6 April 1991. It was known for giving away posters in the center of the [...]

Chicago’s Safeway Truck Lines

You may have shopped for groceries at Safeway, but here’s another completely unrelated Safeway worth remembering—Safeway Truck Lines, Inc. In a 1996 issue of ATHS Wheels of Time magazine, Hamilton [...]

People can create boxes for me…

“I’ve never been like Angelina Jolie, who at one time was spewing out this prototype Bad Girl stuff for people to consume. I’ve never boxed myself in that way. People [...]

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