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It can’t be often that you come across a charming little business lost in the archives and think – wow, that’s a really innovative idea! Time travel with us back to a 1960s London when a ...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/01/11/time-machine-du-jour-a-1960s-london-flower-taxi/
Books, songs and movies have long-romanticised what it’s like to travel overnight on a sleeper train. Judy Garland took us on a musical ride along the Santa Fe Railway in The Harvey Girls, wh...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/08/07/all-aboard-the-lost-romance-of-the-sleeper-train/
Starling and Rein Irving are on the run. In a good way, mind you, and in extremely stylish fashion. You see, the 20-year-old-ish sisters have been making pilgrimages across the United States, w...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/07/10/a-rock-bands-vintage-closet-on-the-run/
Say, can I get that train pamphlet in a framed poster? That’s not something you’re likely to wonder about any of the marketing coming out of today’s rail travel industry. I found this...
Take the most romantic city in the world and the most romantic way to travel, put the two together and you’ve got my attention. Paris was the original starting point for the legendary Orient...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2016/05/27/last-train-to-paris/
It actually makes a lot of sense. It’s also genius marketing. But really, how did the world’s most talented chefs and esteemed restaurants and come to be so concerned with the approval (a...
They don’t call it the ‘Golden Age of Travel’ for nothing. If you thought you were having early symptoms of the pre-summer travel bug, this will surely finish you off. Found deep within L...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2014/04/24/all-aboard-the-flying-yacht-circa-1950/
I‘m one of those people who, in the event of being elected King and Queen of f**king everything, would pass a law that enforced car manufacturers to design cars like they used to in the good ...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/01/09/modern-bmw-gets-a-vintage-makeover/
According to some artists’ predictions of the future in the late 19th century, France is way behind. A series of futuristic drawings set in the year 2000 by Jean-Marc Côté and other French ...
Vintage-lover Erin Sutherland found an old-beat up British double decker bus on Craigslist. When she went to look at the 1965 Bristol Lodekka on a used car lot in Springfield, Oregon, it was l...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2012/10/11/the-vintage-double-decker-bus-shop-friends/
Here it is, the international Motorcyclist’s license belonging to the King of Cool himself, Steve McQueen. It sold at auction in 2009 for a whopping $42,700 USD. As all McQueen fans would kno...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2012/09/19/steve-mcqueens-international-drivers-license/
When you’re driving around in the passenger’s seat of a car looking at the world outside, do you ever wish that you had a camera strapped to your forehead which could instantly take photogr...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2012/09/11/and-now-the-incredible-camera-van/
Straight out of a Jetsons cartoon, get a load of this Citroen U55 Currus Cityrama tour bus that ruled the roads of Paris in the 1950s. It’s futuristic design was ahead of its time and turned ...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2012/07/22/back-to-the-future-the-amazing-1950s-parisian-tour-bus/
Once one of the most eagerly awaited events on the French calendar, the Salon d’Auto was held for 60 consecutive years under the great dome of the Grand Palais. The automobile industry was fl...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2012/07/05/paris-automobile-show-at-the-grand-palais-1940s/
I nearly choked on my marshmallow when I saw this beautiful specimen of automotive machinery painted in pale pastel pink on the New York Times online. And you’ll never guess who this baby be...
It’s Monday, so let’s contemplate time travel… 1. For the Cars (obviously) 2. We could have gone to a school like this: [youtube 3.