Ogle SX1000. Photos courtesy the author. So much has been written and said about the Mini in the past decades, you would think there was nothing new to add. But that the greatest small car in the wor...
Hugus checking newly arrived and unfinished Cobras in storage in the basement of Continental Cars. The white Cobra in front of Hugus has one of the hand-written cardboard delivery signs with chassis ...
The Rambler Rebel’s basic design program was innovative and set the tone for the future of a distinct class of automobile. The car itself also had very innovative components, among them electronic fu...
Photo by Nick DeWolf. Junkyards were my heaven as a boy. Practically nothing else sparked my imagination or entertained me more than 1950s junkyards. I loved their smells: old oil and grease, gasolin...
An elegant place for an elegant car, the 1951 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Villa DEste. It’s mid May, it’s warm again, after long months of unusually dreadful weather for Italy, and Brescia was again ready ...
Chapter Three: The Dark Ages As the 1980s gathered steam, it was clear that Pontiac, like all auto manufacturers, was being led by legislation. The US government had, starting in the late 1960s, impo...
Photos by Dave Friedman, courtesy The Henry Ford. Among the first to arrive at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on race morning in 1964 was Firestone’s junior rep Humphrey “Humpy” Wheeler. One of his ...
Photos by Dave Friedman, courtesy The Henry Ford. When the Indianapolis Motor Speedway opened for practice on May 1, 1964, four different tire brands had moved into Gasoline Alley in pursuit of one o...
1908 Ford Model T. Photo courtesy Ford Media. Ask old-timers what they’ve run their Model T on beside gasoline, and the responses will start to sound like the list of potential fuels for the Chrysler...
McQueen pulls down his Nomex face guard to get a breath of fresh air. Photos by Don Nunley, courtesy Dalton Watson. There was just one scene in the can; the rest of the time the crew only shot racing...
Parnelli Jones and A.J. Foyt at the 1964 Indianapolis 500. Photo by Dave Friedman, courtesy The Henry Ford. Chapter Eight: Tire Wars Less evident to casual race fans than the changes being caused by ...
Prologue Dallas Times Herald, January 1946: Down The Pan-American Highway: With approach of the first peace-time vacation period since 1941, many motorists who like to hit the long, open highways are...
There is much misunderstanding in jeep histories about testing at Holabird. The torture tests there were more or less legendary at the time, and always provided dramatic footage for the newsreels or ...
Sweepswear, in Alfa Romeo style; also other coachbuilders, apart from Touring, used it on this kind of car It Is All A Matter Of Proportions II : The Flint Touch, Jaray’s Touch, And Those Ever-So-(S)...
The famous Ghia Gilda, photo taken from an old publicity shot. Turbinas, Speed Records And The Beautiful Brute The Fiat Turbina was indeed a most spectacular car, in all likelihood the first proper F...
The unmistakable and elegant front end of the Flaminia, sort of Italian answer to the MKII Continental, and a highly influential theme. Photos by Matteo Giacon. While it is undeniable that American a...
Photo via Archivio Stile Bertone. If the main purpose of the Lancia Stratos Zero concept prototype was to catch the attention of the people at Lancia it did not seem to happen at the 1970 edition of ...
A ’57 Alfa Romeo 1900 Super seen at the Padua’s show in the spectacular oh-so-’56 Pontiac two toning Text and photos by Matteo Giacon, except where noted. Fins And Two Tones : When Imitation Becomes ...
The baby Bel air by Fiat, complete with nice two toning, the ’54 1900 A Granluce Text and photos by Matteo Giacon, except where noted. Since the early days of the 20th century, idea-sharing between t...
1929 Ford Model A Tudor with wood gas system attached. Photos by author. The efforts to find a sustainable replacement for gasoline precede the term “e-mobility” that currently dominates press releas...
Text and photos by Jim Garrison. It is a common misconception, even in the Kalamazoo community, that Checker Motors went out of business when they stopped making taxicabs. In fact, the case is quite ...
Story by Jack Koobs de Hartog and Jürgen M. Wilms. Current photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding and Co. Much has been written about the genesis of the AMX/3 program and it is widely reported...