Bedford, Pennsylvania, 1940s to 1960s
Reader Larry Ulm recently sent us a couple of images – above and below – of what was possibly the Lincoln Highway’s most famous attraction in Pennsylvania: the Grand View Ship Hotel, situated about 1...
Reader Larry Ulm recently sent us a couple of images – above and below – of what was possibly the Lincoln Highway’s most famous attraction in Pennsylvania: the Grand View Ship Hotel, situated about 1...
Photos courtesy Victory Motorcycles, unless otherwise noted. If all goes as planned, Urs Pedraita, a Swiss motorcyclist who goes by the nickname “Grizzly,” will depart Daytona Beach, Florida, on Frid...
Sunset on Highway 50. Photos courtesy Travel Nevada, unless otherwise noted. Some old friends drove up for a visit last weekend, and though our Vermont home is a mere three hours from theirs in New J...
Photo by John Butte. At the 1939 World’s Fair, Darlene and her friends had their first opportunity to see and experience one of the newest technologies: television. Some of the six girls (Regina Fenn...
In 1979, driving a one-year-old Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL 6.9 in the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash was like hiding and cheating in plain sight. While entries more cleverly disg...
Brief glimpse of racing at El Mirage in 1946 that Mac’s Motor City Garage posted this week, but it includes some rather noteworthy cars in the hot rodding pantheon. See how many you can name. * For t...
Brief glimpse of racing at El Mirage in 1946 that Mac’s Motor City Garage posted this week, but it includes some rather noteworthy cars in the hot rodding pantheon. See how many you can name. * For t...
Photos courtesy Viking-Cives. If you are driving down a two or three-lane highway in New York State during this snow season and you see a trailer starting to jack-knife behind a plow truck, don’t wor...
Progress has claimed another old building with automotive ties: the former Studebaker dealership in downtown Akron, which has stood vacant for some time. According to the Akron Beacon-Journal, the ow...
U.S. Route 90. Photo by jbparrott. It seems that everybody has either a plan to travel Route 66 one day or a story from a trip down the fabled Mother Road, given the number of responses to our recent...
Photo by Vincent Lammin. Other highways came before it. Others stretched farther. Others probably conducted more traffic throughout the country. But no highway gets more recognition or praise than Ro...
Photos by the author, except where noted. It could be argued that the muscle car era drew much of its inspiration and style from the American West. Try this on for size: The cowboy hat exudes the sam...