Per Gillbrand at the Swedish Radio concert hall Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, November 2014; photo courtesy of Claes Johansson, Klassiker magazine We learned this week of the November 30 death of automot...
Building Fords in the new San Jose plant, 1955. Black and white photos courtesy Ford Motor Company archives. A complete transformation can sometimes eclipse a lifetime of significance. Some people on...
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...
1948 MG TC hood ornament. Photo by Jill Reger. At its peak in the late 1960s, the automobile assembly plant in Longbridge, Birmingham, England, employed an estimated 25,000 workers, building a range ...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Saab Automobile, the pride of Trollhättan, Sweden, is no longer the company we long new and loved, but with many former engineers and staffers st...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Few cars are as strongly identified with the 1980s as is the stainless steel-skinned sports car from the De Lorean Motor Company. This Giugiaro-s...
1971 Chevrolet Vega 2300 Hatchback Coupe. Photo courtesy GM Media. When I was 20 years old I was employed as an assembler at the Chevrolet Engine Plant in Tonawanda, New York. I started out working i...
Photo by Mike Boening. Along with art galleries, a nightclub, apartments, and a spa, the group behind the redevelopment of the former Packard plant in Detroit may also include a museum dedicated to P...
This week’s piece on the Carrera Panamericana Lincoln brought up the dangers of racing on public roads, and no series in the history of motorsport better illustrated those perils than Group B Rally r...
Greg Lynn’s “Center for Fulfillment, Knowledge, and Innovation.” Image via Greg Lynn FORM. While a Peruvian developer cleans up the former Packard plant in Detroit and readies it for its next iterati...
Return of the North Woodward Timing Association? Photo by the author. It’s no secret that in the 1960s and ’70s heyday of the muscle car, Woodward Avenue, which flows northwesterly from Detroit to Po...
1946 Jeep CJ-2A. Photos courtesy FCA. Corporal Klinger, the Mud Hens, and Jeep. Even to Ohioans, there are no stronger associations with Toledo than these three, the latter due to the off-road vehicl...
Photo by John Penrice. At its peak, Studebaker operated out of more than a hundred buildings scattered across South Bend, each dedicated to a particular auto manufacturing need. Renovating every one ...
Making the rounds this week has been this Porsche-produced video targeted to the American market showing how Stuttgart built the 356. * How many times does the narrator of this early Seventies Jeep W...
Still image from video below. Possibly possessing the longest subtitle ever —The People From Fisher Body Who Help Bring A Modern Automobile Body “Up From Clay” – The Bodybuilders is a GM Photographic...
At about the same time GM was experimenting with turbines in its Firebird series, it also took a look at the free-piston engine and developed a working example for its XP-500 concept car. Mac’s Motor...
The Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant. Photo courtesy GM Media. General Motors’s Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, has offered public tours of one kind or another ...
Photos courtesy Albert Kahn Associates, Library of Congress. He designed theaters and houses for senators and industry titans. He designed apartments and university buildings. But most people outside...
The Hannover plant in 1959. Photos courtesy Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. On March 5, 1955, Volkswagen broke ground on a new factory in Hannover-Stoecken, Germany, and just over one year later, on ...
Image courtesy Google Street View. Despite the loss of a major financial backer for his renovation of the once-abandoned Packard plant in Detroit, owner Fernando Palazuelo said he intends to continue...
Still image from video below. If you want some ’60s cool and sneak peek behind the curtain at some of the inner workings of Pontiac in 1969 then this video is for you. Found on the GM Heritage Center...
Images are from the brochure collection of Mark J. McCourt Porsche is one of a handful of European automakers – Mercedes-Benz and Volvo being other notables- that has, for decades, offered a European...
Photo by the author. It is well known that before World War II, Ford Motor Company was never a well-organized corporation, and that in the wake of Edsel Ford’s death in 1943, things spiraled so nearl...