Disney press photo. At the height of General Motors’ dominance throughout the middle of the 20th century, executives rarely missed the opportunity to go all out at major expositions and even created ...
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...
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...
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...
For perhaps the best coverage of the recent Citroen centennial bash, we have to look no further than Citroenvie! a huge conglomeration of Citroëns of every model. The assembly of Traction Avants alon...
Testing Swamp Rat 38 in Ocala. Photos courtesy Lisa Crigar Images. Last January 14, drag racing legend Don Garlits celebrated his 87th birthday. At an age where most are content to reflect on their l...
Images courtesy Zero Labs. As Adam Roe sees it, the fates of the internal combustion engine and the older vehicles that rely on it for power are sealed. Collector cars will be parked for good, only d...
In the years since his death, Fred Rogers has been hailed as a champion for educational television, a practitioner of radical kindness and acceptance, and a balm for the ills of our modern world. He ...
Starting in the late Sixties, Seattle City Light began an electric vehicle program to try to get the city and the city’s residents to switch from their internal combustion vehicles. According to Seat...
Photo courtesy Historic Electric Vehicle Foundation. At about 4,000 square feet, the Historic Electric Vehicle Foundation’s museum has only enough floor space for about a quarter of its collection. B...
Starting January 1, Indiana residents can purchase specialty plates to support the Studebaker Museum. The first one had better go on a South Bend product. * In the late Sixties, Ford’s vision of an e...
Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycle. Photos courtesy Harley-Davidson. The powers that be at Harley-Davidson realized a few years back that future profits could well hinge upon being able to ...
Photos courtesy Lane Motor Museum. The term “failed successes” sounds like an oxymoron or perhaps a riches-to-rags story, but Rex Bennett at the Lane Motor Museum believes it best describes those Ica...
Think Tesla was the first to build a heavy-duty electric truck? The Commercial Truck Company beat them by over a century. From the seller’s description: 1912 Commercial Truck Company Model A 10 Stand...