Note Bill’s Aston near the top left of the photo. Photos by Bill Chizar and Steve Patience, courtesy S. Scott Callan/Velocity Press. I felt one of the first questions by the previous owners would be ...
The idea came from Porsche. Ferry Porsche wanted an entry-level Porsche that would give younger drivers affordable access to the Porsche world. The car that was subsequently developed and that reache...
Image via OldCarBrochures. Introduction by unknown speaker: I would like to introduce our speaker tonight, Vice President of General Motors Corporations and Director of Engineering Staff, Mr. Frank W...
Alice Ramsey and Hermine Jahns, c.1909. Photo courtesy of the National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library. “A few of our most skeptical friends told us after our return that they d...
Photo by Geoff Hacker. Jerry Gardner — The Man Jerome B. “Jerry” Gardner was born April 9, 1934, in Saugerties, New York. He was the son of the late Edward and Anna Brandow Gardner. A veteran of the ...
My favorite shot of Carroll and Daisy: sunrise on the banking of Irwindale. Photo courtesy Bud Brutsman. Every year in Detroit after the North American International Auto Show, J Mays and I would get...
Death on the Ridge Road by Grant Wood, courtesy Williams College Museum of Art. “Grant Wood never said what he meant” with any of his paintings, Kevin Murphy warned. “He was really enigmatic.” When i...
The story of how Alec Issigonis and others at BMC created the Mini – along with the stories of its post-release cultural impact – are rather well known, but this 1994 documentary, “ Mini: Wizardry on...
We’ve already seen how Americans were sold on the Interstate Highway System as it started to connect cities across the country in the Fifties and we’ve seen how, less than a decade later, Americans h...
While perusing the several cars that Honda’s taking to SEMA to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Honda in the U.S., we were surprised to see that the company didn’t include the first Honda automobile...
Image courtesy Michigan State University. “The better half has, since the early twentieth century, mysteriously acquired 70 percent of the nation’s wealth and she is determined to spend 120 percent o...
There’s a lot to glean from this half-hour film that the American Roadbuilders Association produced in 1957 to help smooth the road, so to say, for the coming Interstate Highway System. While the tra...
Back in 1989, ESPN sent Peter Graves out to cover the racing at Bonneville, almost on a play-by-play basis with color commentator Rick Vesco. Speeds were high, records were set, and the salt stretche...
Photo via NHRA. Tom Jobe, the last of the Surfers drag team, died earlier this month at the age of 89. If you’re not a hardcore drag racing fan (or if you weren’t paying close attention to the story ...
Henry Ford, undoubtedly, helped to shape the automobile industry and the peoplescape of southeast Michigan with his offer of a $5 per day wage in 1914. It more than doubled the existing wages and led...
Web Editor Daniel Strohl’s comprehensive story on the construction and fates of the John Graham-designed factories that Ford built across North America to assemble the Ford Model T took a category-wi...
Lowriding is commonly depicted as a Mexican-American or latinx pasttime, and while it certainly grew out of those communities, it has become a worldwide phenomenon with adherents as far away as Swede...
Of all the people involved in motorsport over the last century plus, Jack Brabham may have best encapsulated the sport. He could compete in the highest echelons of racing as a driver, no doubt about ...
Photo by Barry Wong, courtesy Seattle Times. In 1980, social media was the local newspaper. With old-fashioned, black-and-white print, people could read the news of the day, follow their favorite per...
While the narration and production quality of this video detailing the development and racing victories of the Audi Quattro through WRC, SCCA Trans Am, and IMSA GTO are pure 1990, the interviews with...
Photo by Jim Donnelly. The young ex-U.S. Navy pilot had arrived from California by train. He was early for his appointment, so he hung about on the sidewalk in downtown New Orleans that January morni...
Photo courtesy the owner. For the short period of time that the Fageol Supersonic existed as the Fageol Supersonic, it wowed the world. All ray gun spaceship cool and unlike anything else on the road...
Photos courtesy the Patrick Foster collection, unless otherwise noted. As we saw in chapter 12, the Senior Jeep models, namely the Wagoneer, Cherokee and J-Series truck were offered from 1973 with Bo...
The “Carmen Curls” The First All Girls Motor Racing Team in 1971: The House of Carmen, leaders in beauty and personal care products are sponsoring a two-car racing team from Motor Racing Stables. Car...
This past week marked the 25th anniversary of three-time F1 champ Ayrton Senna’s death at the San Marino Grand Prix, an event that left the motorsports world shattered, as this BBC documentary from a...