Neal Bascomb’s new book, “Faster,” got the attention of the New York Times this week, which decided to look into which one of America’s premier collectors owns the Rene Dreyfus-driven Delahaye 145 th...
Photo Credit: Richard Lentinello A decade prior to the last Checker rolling off the assembly line on July 12, 1982, this 1971 Aerobus made automotive history as the longest regular production car eve...
Bringing back the Milwaukee Mile As we wrote earlier this year, the push to bring professional racing back to the Milwaukee Mile has been building momentum, and Milwaukee Magazine recently checked in...
Photos by Jamie Orr. The dirt-crusted Volkswagen Rabbit that Jamie Orr picked up earlier this month has decayed so much it won’t even roll off his trailer. He suspects fist-sized rust holes lurk in i...
Photo by Brian Bennett. Following up on a prior post about VW Beetles as art cars, John Heitmann at The Automobile and American Life spent some time this week discussing the one art car that made Vol...
Jeep’s Surrey model didn’t form in a pink-lined vacuum. Rather, as CJ3B.info points out, Toledo took a cue from the 100 or so Jeeps that served the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco. Compared to the new ...
This year marks the centennial of Checker Taxi — the cab company, not the manufacturing company. It’s a little confusing, but the Internet Checker Taxicab Archive lays out the history of how Checker ...
Corey from Fuel Injection Sucks released a new update on their 1967 Checker Marathon project. The team’s goal is swap a 4.2 L LL8 (Vortec 4200) inline-six and TH400 automatic transmission into the se...
Photo by Mike Boening. Prior to the collapse of the production line bridge at the former Packard plant this week, the Detroit News ran a piece looking back on an unusual chapter in the plant’s histor...
Corey from Fuel Injection Sucks is back with a new project. You might remember their last project, a Winnebago RV with a turbocharged LSx V8. This time around they are installing a 4.2 L LL8 (Vortec ...
Photo courtesy Internet Checker Taxicab Archive. Over the years, cab companies have sent entire fleets of Checker taxis — worn out to the brink of literally falling apart, rusted, and scavenged for p...
Jaywalking simply didn’t exist before the automobile, so how did it — both the term and the crime — come about? According to this deep dive into the history of jaywalking, it was actually a concerted...
More than a few years ago, we visited with some fine car folks in Istanbul during one of the Hemmings cruises. Now we learn that some of those same folks have organized the first Istanbul internation...
If you plan to race in Baja’s Class 11, be prepared to meet Eric Solorzano and come away from your encounter with a tale or two, as this Playboy profile of the long-time racer illustrates. * Do you t...
Photos courtesy Internet Checker Taxicab Archive. Kaela Petkovits grew up in her father’s Checker taxis as he drove the streets of Seattle in the Eighties and dreamed of having her own to drive somed...
“We should not teach them to be afraid,” Hermann Zapp said of the four kids he and his wife had while on a 17-year road trip around the world behind the wheel of a 1928 Graham-Paige. “We should teach...
Photos courtesy Checker Motor Cars. With a stock of Checker parts in hand and official paperwork filed, the reborn Checker Motor Cars is set to begin production of its versions of the famed taxi comp...
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 ...
Photos by the author and Mike McNessor. Though both Checker Motor and International Harvester operated in entirely different segments of the auto market, a newly discovered document from the Sixties ...
Given that none of the Diamond T Doodlebugs built for Texaco are known to have survived (and the plans to drop a quad-turbo Detroit diesel in it), we’re going to presume that the project sketches tha...
What’s the likelihood of running across your first car? If it’s something as durable and as distinctive as Steve Rall’s 1949 Packard, probably not that low. The Lincoln Journal-Star tells the story o...
Forget baking them cookies or letting them borrow your lawnmower, the best way to get to know your neighbors is by parking an old car out front for a few days, as Tim Pitt of Motoring Research recent...
Photos courtesy Checker Cab Club. Though it’s only been around for a little more than a year, the Checker Cab Club recently scored a couple troves of rather significant documentation on the Kalamazoo...
Sure, it’s a bit sensational to show Jay Leno in the famed Hemi Under Glass wheelstander as it takes a tumble for Jay’s show, but it’s also a part of the car’s history now, something to be noted when...
One of the first runnings of the Charade circuit in France was captured in this 16-minute video from 1958 showing plenty of Ferraris Porsches, Lotii, and other interesting cars in their natural habit...