From Wall Street Journal Sandy Avila at the wheel of a lowrider. ELIZABETH WEINBERG FOR WSJ Nearly every week going back to August 2013, The Wall Street Journal has published a My Ride column, highlighting a story about an owner of a surprising vehicle. The column has featured the most-decadent McLarens and Ferraris as well as humble Hondas—even the Hyundai driven by a pizza-delivery man in the northernmost Alaskan town. In that time, I have published roughly 600 My Ride colu

From Wall Street Journal Jeff Siegrist in the Volkswagen Super Beetle he bought new in 1971. Credit: Peter Frank Edwards for WSJ Locals in Pawleys Island have a special affection for classic vehicles. The coastal South Carolina town is home to many nostalgic retirees, and on weekends its streets see plenty of restored ‘60s-era muscle cars. Of all the classics motoring past Parlor Doughnuts on Ocean Highway, none has captured the community’s attention like Rudolph the Red-Nose

From Wall Street Journal Alex Porter and his father, Charles, with his 1936 Cord 810 Westchester in Guadalupe, Calif. Alex Porter, a 42-year-old who works at an online collector-car auction website and lives in San Francisco, on his 1936 Cord 810 Westchester, as told to A.J. Baime. Charles Porter, my 86-year-old father, is a retired attorney and judge who has always loved cars—particularly Cords. When I was a kid, he took me to Cord West Coast meets. About 10 years ago, we we

From The Wall Street Journal Jeff Lane, 65, the director of the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tenn., on his 1932 Helicron, as told to A.J. Baime. I have been called the “king of weird” and the “patron saint of oddball cars.” The museum I founded with my collection in 2002 has about 40 one-offs, a bunch of microcars—all kinds of things that, typically, you have not seen before. My background is in mechanical engineering, so while some people love the aesthetics of cars, I fi

Sara Dean Cole has always loved speed. Riding her Italian motorcycle provides what she calls ‘throttle therapy.’ From The Wall Street Journal Sara Dean Cole, an entrepreneur living in Houston, on her 2020 Ducati Panigale V4 S, as told to A.J. Baime I have always loved speed, even as a kid, and when I was growing up, I had an uncle who was into bikes. He told me that Ducati made the best motorcycles in the world. So when I was little, I thought, I want to get a Ducati someday.

From The Wall Street Journal Tim Hulick, 60, a remodeling contractor living outside Des Moines, Iowa, on his 1966 Ford “Old Blue” Bronco, as told to A.J. Baime In 1977, I was riding a bus to school and I saw a Ford Bronco for the first time. Some kids at my school in Virginia Beach had jacked-up four-wheelers, and the Bronco caught my eye. I thought, oh boy, that thing is so cool. Read more ...

The vehicles that turned heads this year, and the stories of the driven owners behind them From The Wall Street Journal Janet Long won her 1961 Chevrolet Corvette in a raffle in 1989 from Disneyland. Daniel Berman for WSJ It was a family mystery—a pink Ford Mustang with a white and black houndstooth top. Sam McGee’s grandmother had owned it before her death in 1973. This car had been built as a Color of the Month promotion in 1968, and as far as McGee knew, it was the only o