Michael L. Rose’s four-season PBS run paired chrome-laden Bentleys with turbo-charged Lotuses, dedicating each 30-minute slot to a single marque or model. Engineers, drivers and collectors front the camera, explaining how a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO became a rolling pension fund and why the 1973 AMC Gremlin still divides opinion at Detroit bars.
The camera lingers on panel gaps, weld beads and cigarette-burned vinyl while archive ads and sales-brochure graphics remind viewers that desire was once printed on paper. Rose keeps narration sparse, letting owners pop bonnets and trace oil leaks across their driveways like family scars. Fifty-two episodes across 2004-2007 means the series caught the last days of analogue motoring before YouTube swallowed car culture whole.
Production Details
PBS / 4 Seasons / 52 Episodes / 2004
Writer(s): Michael L. Rose
Main Cast
