Photos courtesy Aussie Invader. On the one hand, according to Rosco McGlashan, plenty of people have told him that they too intend to build a vehicle that’ll break the world land-speed record, typica...
It’s a good bet that plenty of auto renderings from 1945 until, oh, 1979 or so – particularly the far-out space-agey ones of the Fifties – operated on the designer’s assumption that nuclear power wou...
An electric car, at its most basic, is rather simple: batteries, motor, a means of controlling the latter, and a wheeled platform for all of the above. Yet it’s surprisingly difficult to say for sure...
Photos courtesy Smithsonian. Though historians live to debate these sorts of things, focusing largely on definitions and the indefinite qualifier of practicality, it’s fairly well established who bui...
Photo by Russ London. “Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?” – Mary Shelle...
2008 Jeep Renegade. All images courtesy FCA. Since the turn of the century or so, carmakers burnished their green credentials with concept vehicles that were meant in some way to rely on traction mot...
You’ve probably heard it whispered about at any gathering of drag racing fiends born before 1965, but you’ve probably never seen one: the legendary Turbonique drag axle. The interwebs are full of old...
Image courtesy Bloodhound LSR. Judging from videos, the mood of the entire Bloodhound LSR team as it packed up and left Hakskeen Pan this week ran from celebratory to jovial. The jet car had performe...
All photos courtesy of Ford. For the first time since the model’s 1964 inception, Ford has put the Mustang name on a vehicle that is not – at least according to previous definitions – a Mustang. The ...
Over in Italy, a lifelong Miata fan opened a hotel that gives guests access to an impressive collection of Mazda MX-5s, as Top Gear recently wrote. Guests are comprehensively outnumbered by cars. The...
With instantaneous torque, fewer components, and compact motors, are electric conversions the future of hot rodding? No, they’re not. But chances are they’ll be a piece of that future. And to show of...
The oldest surviving American automobile, as The Henry Ford pointed out this week, exists in the museum’s collection, and it well predates the internal combustion engine. Smoke-belching steam locomot...
Images courtesy Tom Kimmel. Bill Lear gestured confidently off toward the horizon outside of Reno while bulldozers pushed dirt behind him. Here, he told reporters, would rise an Indianapolis Motor Sp...
It does exist! A decade ago, I mentioned that one of the Strick cabunder prototypes still exists in Germany, and thanks to a post on Truque, it appears we’ve found it still in operation as a “ platea...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. In early August 1971, the Apollo 15 astronauts deployed the first moon buggy — technically the Lunar Roving Vehicle — on the surface of ol’ Luna, reaching blistering s...
1952 Kaiser Manhattan. Image courtesy OldCarBrochures. We live in a golden age of crate engine options. From a catalog, one can order Hemis, LSes, even electric motors. And who knows, maybe we could ...
Before embarking on his quest to break the world land-speed record, Rosco McGlashan was an exhibition drag racer who piloted jet dragsters, much like the Arfons brothers. McGlashan also decided – onc...
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...
Photo credit: Morris Commercial The Morris name is set to return, in the form of a new Morris Commercial van. The Morris JE is an all-electric commercial van with styling cues that recall the classic...
High school shop class-built electrified Volkswagen Rabbit. Photo courtesy Volkswagen. FIVA, the global organization dedicated to preserving older vehicles in part by fighting legislation aimed at ge...
Images via Museum of Modern Art. Not a single American auto manufacturer participated in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1976 exhibit dedicated to exploring the future of taxis. Conspicuous in its absence...
The Historic Vehicle Association paid tribute to Jesse Valadez II, the caretaker of his father’s Gypsy Rose lowrider, who died this past week. Although Jesse was soft spoken and humble, he was always...
Chevrolet Express. GM press photos. In January 1966, Chrysler collected the 55 Ghia-bodied turbine-powered cars it had lent out to the general public over the prior couple years; sometime after mid-A...
Hot on the heels of ending modern Beetle production in Mexico, Volkswagen will be offering a sentimental surprise at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show: the introduction of the a near-production-ready...
For more than 50 years, a 1948 Studebaker has resided on the second story of the Greider family’s garage near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. At least, it did until this month, when it was removed for a res...