The Macchio Curve
Ralph Macchio is an unintentional arbiter of American car culture. Yeah, Ralph Macchio. The Karate Kid. Johnny from . Bill Gambini and his ’64 Buick Skylark convertible in . Now, he’s back with season three of the hottest comeback story on Netflix, . It totally makes sense: Ralph owns the Maize Yellow ’47 Ford Super De Luxe convertible from the original film, and when it showed up in , we knew we were onto something. Ralph has been surrounded by the music, stories, road trips, and hardware of American car culture throughout most of his career, and we don’t think anyone, including Ralph, realized it. So, on a crisp, autumn day near his home on New York’s Long Island, we got together with Ralph and a ’64 Skylark (loaned to us by Jack Ringold — but sort of similar to the one he drove in ) to present
