This week, we’re all fixated on AMC muscle. They’re some of the most oft-overlooked cars of those glorious early muscle years, and we wholly dig it. And, so did land-speed racer Craig Breedlove, appa...
Craig in his dad’s garage with the Spirit of America mockup, holding his model of the car in its original configuration. Note that “Firestone” is painted on the front wheel. (That’s another story!) I...
Not the Corvette in question. Photo courtesy Barrett-Jackson. A Florida man who believes the VIN of his car has been copied successfully sued Saskatchewan Government Insurance to reveal the identity ...
Last weekend, the Los Angeles Times gathered nearly 20 years’ worth of data on street racing fatalities in the city. Notably absent from the article: Any mention of the access — or lack of access — t...
Breedlove at the time he received the Spirit of Competition Award from the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia in 2011. Photo courtesy Simeone Museum. “The Bonneville Salt Flats have...
Archive photo. After a federal judge gave the go-ahead for Craig Breedlove to pursue his lawsuit against the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry for allegedly damaging Breedlove’s Spirit of Americ...
The Henry Ford’s trove of Dave Friedman photos has revealed many gems in the past, so one would expect the most recent digitized batch of Friedman photos – from the 1960 U.S. Grand Prix at Riverside ...