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Before startup culture in the late 70s and early 80s produced the tech giants we know today, almost a decade earlier there were the real pioneers. One of them was Alan R. Pearlman, geeking out designing amplifiers for the NASA Gemini and Apollo...

Before startup culture in the late 70s and early 80s produced the tech giants we know today, almost a decade earlier there were the real pioneers. One of them was Alan R. Pearlman, geeking out designing amplifiers for the NASA Gemini and Apollo program. At the age of 44, he just left – and started developing odd music machines nobody had ever heard of but later defined the sound of an era. Not a bad move for a space engineer, eh?

He founded ARP in 1969 and his first major success, the 2600, was a milestone in the evolution of electronic music instruments.

I got mine 10 years ago and I spent a fortune for it, even back than, ending up bankrupt for several weeks. I’ve played it for hours and hours since, I’ve played it live (hell yeah), I’ve processed all possible (and impossible) things through it – and there is still nothing like it. It’s such a unique design.

Thanks, Alan 🤘

R.I.P Alan R. Pearlman (06/07/1925 – 01/06/2019)

1954 Fiat 500C Topolino Giardinetta.

From Torino with love ❤️

It is always a pleasure working with Alejandro of Carphiles. Today finally saw the release of an interview about my 1984 M635 CSi, including many more amazing shots from Alejandro taken on different locations in the past two years! 📸 Read the...

It is always a pleasure working with Alejandro of Carphiles. Today finally saw the release of an interview about my 1984 M635 CSi, including many more amazing shots from Alejandro taken on different locations in the past two years! 📸

Read the interview on Carphiles.net

Follow Carphiles on Instagram: @carphiles

The car is for sale on Classic Trader.

2011 Ferrari FF.

Buon Natale! 🚗🌲

2018 – Could have been, should have been.

It has become a good tradition on Autowahn to end the year with a dump of pictures, that failed to make it as a proper post, because we felt they wouldn’t fit the much esteemed standards of you, dear followers 😅💕🥂

The 2018 edition includes real and fake Porsche 993s, Auto-Unions in Greece, Maybachs, Audis, Bentleys, wrapping crimes, parking crimes, tuning crimes, a toy 935 spotted in France, Fiats, Jags, random Waggy sightings – and quite a few bimmers in rare color combinations.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to y’all!

1982 BMW 745i (E23)

The best part about winter in Berlin? Less people on bikes LOL 🌨❄️

Mansory Monday: S63 AMG refined ♣️

Island Life, part 6: 1980s Renault R5.

„Don’t worry
(Ooh, ooh ooh ooh oo-ooh ooh oo-ooh) be happy
(Ooh, ooh ooh ooh oo-ooh ooh oo-ooh) don’t worry, be happy
(Ooh, ooh ooh ooh oo-ooh ooh oo-ooh) don’t worry
(Ooh, ooh ooh ooh oo-ooh ooh oo-ooh) be happy
(Ooh, ooh ooh ooh oo-ooh ooh oo-ooh) don’t worry, be happy“

(Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry, Be Happy, 1988)

1991 Alpina B10 3.5.

Real Alpina or not?

1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia 1300 Super.

Sinister Sunday, part XXXIV: Totensonntag.

Let us commemorate today the ones that passed away – and celebrate the ones, that should have been long gone, but managed to survive somehow, like this first series Giulia 🍀

1968 Lancia Fulvia 1.3 S.

Italians do it better.

1987- BMW E30.

🇩🇪

1965 Opel Kadett A.

❤️

1936 Pierce-Arrow Salon Twelve.

A relic of the „Roaring Twenties“, Pierce-Arrow was purchased by Studebaker in 1928 an disappeared in the late 1930s. This huge V12-powered limousine was among their last models.

1958 Volkswagen T1.

The ultimate Mangobus – here it is!