# Car Culture • the Art of the Automobile.

> A newsletter meant to inspire lovers of car culture to perserve and persist knowledge of car culture for future generations. The development of the automobile is remarkably similar to the evolution of internet technologies.

## Recent Posts

- [Bound for Miataville](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/bound-of-miataville): From a late-night Greyhound bus arrival in Hollywood to designing the beloved Mazda Miata, Tom Matano lived an exemplary life driven by his passion for automobiles.

- [The Z Marque](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/the-z-marque): The blinding red lamps on this distinctive Alfa Romeo were mounted in part to intimidate competitors on the race track. No doubt they were very effective. Red lights appearing in the rearview mirror still have a diverting effect today. How would you like to see those coming up on your tail?
- [Hot Christmas](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/hot-christmas): Santa left something for you at the Taco Stand
- [Electromagnetism](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/electromagnetism): By the mid-1940s, we could listen to the radio as we drove through the world, gazing through our windshields endlessly, twirling the radio dial for powerful frequencies broadcast from remote stations. Sound frequencies were our beacons. 

- [The Grand Tour Transforms](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/the-grand-tour-transforms): The early automotive adventurers weren't just taking the Grand Tour for the rite of passage, the educational experiences, and the newfound freedoms that traveling on the continent offered. Half the fun of taking the Grand Tour at the turn of the twentieth century was the thrill of motoring.
- [Spinning Around the World](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/spinning-around-the-world): While women held assemblies for the right to vote, Thomas Stevens, 29, an avid sportsman, set off from San Francisco in April 1884 with the lofty goal to bicycle alone around the world. No one had even crossed the United States on a bicycle during this period, and Stevens found the going very tough as he fought his way eastward across the Great Plains.

- [Lifeguard](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/lifeguard): 

- [Boss](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/boss): With the Beach Boys playing in the background, the Gidget novel in print, highway access to Malibu beach, and a surplus of inexpensive wooden-bodied utility vehicles to haul their hollow boards, the surfing culture boomed.
- [Boards on Board](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/boards-on-board): After World War II, Woodie Wagons ceased manufacturing, but these outdated vehicles found a new purpose as surf vehicles due to the growing popularity of surfing.
- [Surfin’ U.S.A.](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/surfin-usa): Everybody's gone surfin'

- [Surf Stickers](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/surf-stickers): Been there, Done That. All Stuck Up.
- [Shoot the Curl](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/shoot-the-curl): Ride the wave, baby. 
- [Summertime Blues](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/summertime-blues): There is a cure...
- [Surfin’ at Del Mar
](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/surfin-at-del-mar): Does form follow function? Almost one hundred years after it was built, this Ford Station Wagon still adheres to this famous design mantra. Right? Well, maybe. 
- [Flat Sea](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/flat-sea): Surfside Ouija Board
- [Low Tide](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/low-tide): CarMania Surfer Woodie Wagon NFT Collection
- [The Rabbit Hole](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/the-rabbit-hole-1): Target Practice - Drilling Automotive Heritage into the Blockchain
- [The Wild, Wild West of NFT
Development ](https://paragraph.com/@carculture/the-wild-wild-west-of-nft-development): Preserving Automotive Heritage in Blockchain


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