It seems that all of the major automotive-focused blogs seem to be highlighting unusual cars on eBay and Craigslist that have caught the eyes of their editors and contributors. And one of my favorite pastimes is to scan eBay looking for cars in three categories, AMCs, Fieros, and of course, station wagons. And this morning I spied something I wanted to bring to your attention, a spectacular, silver 1971 AMC Javelin with an incredible 7,210 miles.

Like every other automotive publication on the planet, we’re waiting for our turn behind the wheel of a production-spec 2008 Dodge Challenger. Our time will come next week when we set out on a 2,600-mile road trip from LA to Denver and back. In Denver we’ll hook up with Buzz Graves and his 1970 Dodge Challenger Hemi R/T. It will be the ultimate Automotive Traveler road trip!

Thomas Kohnstamm's New Book Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventure

On April 22 a self-admitted, self-promoting fraud will be published when Thomas Kohnstamm's new book is planned for release; Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventure. In it, Mr. Kohnstamm, a Lonely Planet author admits that he literally phoned it in on several books he contributed to the series. Needless to say, this is not sitting well in travel writer circles or with management at Lonely Planet. 

The smell of unburnt hydrocarbon permeates the early morning mist well before sunrise as Southern California's car cognoscenti gather in a parking lot in Irvine, just off of Interstate 5. The event is Cars + Coffee, an informal, loosely organized gathering of vintage, classic, muscle, tuner, and exotic cars that might be unrivaled anywhere in the world.

The reason is simple; Southern California -- Orange County in particular -- is the epicenter of car culture and that, combined with the overall affluence of its inhabitants, as well as exceptional weather year-round, almost ensures that each Saturday morning at Cars + Coffee will be better than the last.