Front-wheel drive had been done before, of course. Even the transverse engine front-wheel-drive layout predated the Mini. However, as this 1961 BMC video via British Pathe notes, Alec Issigonis’ triu...
This week, we’re donning the leather-elbowed cardigan, sitting down by the fireplace, lighting a pipe and getting all existential about…NASCAR. That’s right: we’re gonna go deep on the topic of “What...
After this week’s story on the Boyle Racing Team, we’re still in Indy mode, so let’s watch a race. While Terry Shea detailed the story of the turbine cars at the 1968 Indianapolis 500 last May, those...
After this week’s story on the Boyle Racing Team, we’re still in Indy mode, so let’s watch a race. While Terry Shea detailed the story of the turbine cars at the 1968 Indianapolis 500 last May, those...
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...
Look, we know. We know how miserable it is outside this week. We also know that even if your garage is attached to the house, there’s a literal snowball’s chance that you’re gonna be in it, anytime s...
Given the fact it’s been uploaded to YouTube and now we’re able to share it, the information in this CIA mobile surveillance training video from 1974, shot around the western London suburbs, is likel...
Photo by Mike Boening. Prior to the collapse of the production line bridge at the former Packard plant this week, the Detroit News ran a piece looking back on an unusual chapter in the plant’s histor...
It’s the end of January. If you’re anywhere east of, say, Arizona, it seems like it’s well below freezing and driving an old car is limited to the earliest year for factory seat heaters. But if you’r...
While pulling together information on the Plymouth that won the Autos Clasicos show in Cuba, we came across Cuban Classics , a blog that seems intent on cataloging every one of the old cars still ply...
Exclusive paparazzi action shot of Aaron Grote and his “Atomic Punk” bubbletop hot rod at the Playboy Mansion for Mopars At The Mansion. That’s “Grote,” not “grotto.” C’mon, man… Imagery courtesy Aar...
In 1968, the NHRA U.S. Nationals at Indy were recorded for a documentary produced by Hollywood’s Documentary Productions Inc. Not only is the hour-plus film an amazing capture of what drag racing was...
Much like in entertainment, the show must go on in racing. That’s even after incidents that threaten to sideline the entire field of cars, such as the water-in-the-fuel episode at the 1976 24 Hours o...
A little more than a decade ago, a certain Olds 442 was spotted for sale in Hemmings Motor News . Turns out, it was the long-lost ’70 442 “Goodyear Grabber” that none other than James Garner campaign...
The Finnish Rally of the Thousand Lakes dates back to the early 1950s. Over the next 20 years, it became a showcase of some of the best rally driving talent in Europe, as we can see from this BBC doc...
Dave Lockard, who we met at Hershey a few years back, will take home a pair of AACA National awards for his pair of Packard World War I trucks, as we learned this week on the WWI Centennial Commissio...
When I first moved from the East Coast to California, I paid attention to the whispers of “hi-riders” I kept hearing at car shows in the East Bay region of the Northern California San Francisco Bay A...
Charles Kettering gets all the credit for inventing the self-starter for internal combustion engines and thus making gasoline-engine cars the dominant mode of transport today. But as John Heitmann at...
When we first heard of the automotive-centric series that our cousins up the hill at Condé Nast Entertainment had sold to Netflix, we were admittedly a little skeptical. “A drag race elimination show...
Back in 1966, Bruno Bozzetto released this short animated film following Signor Rossi’s purchase of a car and all the miseries and madness and anti-social tendencies that come along with the purchase...
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...
Look, we’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Gearheads cannot live on muscle cars alone. And it’s in that continuing vein that we bring you this week’s departure from the usual muscle car fare...
Still image from video below. “Tom?” I called up to my 18-year-old son, who was in his room. “What?” he replied. “Come down to the living room, please.” “Why?” “Because I want to show you this vintag...
What exactly was the connection between Colin Chapman’s Lotus and John DeLorean’s DMC? How did Chapman keep Lotus going financially — and personally — in the years before his death? Through interview...
The IMS Museum announced this week that it has digitized a good number of recordings of Indy 500 races past and is now offering the digital recordings for sale. * The story that Alex Pappademas wrote...