Photo by Joe Clark for EPA’s Documerica, via Library of Congress. Springwells was aptly named. Situated along the Rogue River just southwest of Detroit’s city limits, the farming community operated a...
Image via IMCDB. Yeah, the scripts were repetitive, the violence cartoonish, and the continuity near-nonexistent. So what, we children of the Eighties tuned into The A-Team every week for one thing o...
F40 and Ferrari’s factory — take one. All photos by the author. Once in a decade, there is a moment of the year when it is possible to see a literal herd of prancing horses gathering together to cele...
Photo and collage by the author. There’s the car, of course, perhaps the most successful attempt at an American microcar. But there’s also the anti-baldness device, the proximity fuze, the refrigerat...
Not the 1867 racer. Image courtesy Grace’s Guide. Lore holds that the first automobile race took place after the second automobile was built. The historical record, however, shows that nearly a centu...
Photos by the author. Discussions of performance cars from American Motors usually start and stop with the AMX and Javelin, but it was the muscular one-year-only Rambler Rebel that outsped its contem...
Original DKM Wankel-designed engine prototype. Photo by Ralf Pfeifer. As the world waits on Mazda to maybe possibly announce that it will resurrect the rotary engine, the compact pistonless internal ...
I briefly considered scrapping the entire Four-Links format this week to focus entirely on Lucas Reilly’s longread on Clair Patterson, the chemist/geologist who for decades doggedly pursued the evide...
1957 Jeep FC-150. Photos by the author. Ditch digger. Hay hauler. Plow pusher. Tow truck. Fire fighter. Street sweeper. Like its brethren Jeeps, the Forward Control series of Jeeps filled an almost e...
Photos courtesy McPherson College C.A.R.S. Club. Big anniversary party coming up for McPherson College’s auto restoration program, so of course they’ve planned a celebration. Instead of cake, though,...
Old and new: A 125 S replica and a 2017 La Ferrari Aperta outside the factory. Images courtesy Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari never envisioned himself an industrialist. He was, first and foremost, a driver, w...
Still from “ 27 Hours to La Paz.” It started out as little more than a lark, an informal competition among off-road racers to see who could make it from one end of the Baja peninsula to the other the...
Photo by Chris Shervey. With the entirety of the Alaska Highway now paved, it may no longer prove necessary to traverse it in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, but a group of Jeep owners plans to do just t...
Photo by Chris Shervey. With the entirety of the Alaska Highway now paved, it may no longer prove necessary to traverse it in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, but a group of Jeep owners plans to do just t...
Mitsubishi PX33, photo by Lennart Coopmans. Most car companies don’t spend their first 44 years not building cars then take another multi-decade break from the business. Then again, most car companie...
McLaren F1. Images courtesy McLaren, unless otherwise noted. It began as a conversation between McLaren’s Gordon Murray and Ron Dennis, awaiting a flight home after the 1988 Italian Grand Prix. Four ...
Photo courtesy Beaulieu. It’s unimaginable that the annual Hershey swap meet would take place anywhere but the formerly mud-splattered central Pennsylvania grounds that it calls home, but the British...
In the mid-Seventies, photographer Langdon Clay roamed the streets of New York City snapping photos of the cars parked along the city’s streets. More recently, he’s published a book featuring the bes...
Photo courtesy New England Auto Museum. Pinning down a birth date for Luigi Chinetti’s North American Racing Team isn’t exactly straightforward. Could have taken place in 1948, 1958, or any number of...
Photos courtesy Tim Cunningham. They flew. They lit up the darkness. They did not, however – could not, in fact – drive under their own power, yet they remain some of the world’s best-known Trabants ...
The first Volvo 144 rolls off the assembly line in 1966. Photos courtesy Volvo Car Group. On August 17, 1966, Volvo gathered an estimated 400 journalists in Gothenburg, Sweden, to show off its latest...
1946 Nash Ambassador. Photo by the author. Charles Nash, by most accounts, got along all right with Charles Durant. He just knew he couldn’t continue to work with the man who’d brought him into the a...
The Defender is dead, right? Not so fast. As Ronan Glon at Ran When Parked reported, a British businessman hasn’t let Jaguar Land Rover’s denial of permission to continue the Defender’s production st...
Photos courtesy SEMA. If trade shows – beyond merely serving as a means of collecting business cards and branded swag – tend to serve as a barometer of an industry’s health, then the annual SEMA show...
Photo by Phil Parrish, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Though it rolled down the assembly line at Norwood, Ohio without a name or nameplate and with a simple six-cylinder engine, the car then ...