Items tagged with: Videos

From drawing board to checkered flag in one year – Ford tells the tale of the Lotus 49

Most times, automakers’ marketing efforts fall toward the ephemeral end of the scale. They are, after all, conceived for the short-term gains that lead to the next quarter’s sales figures, nothing mo...

Four-Links – Ford St. Paul, Oskar Schindler, Delica camper, Porsche drawings

Some old Ford factories get preserved. Others get torn down in anticipation of ambitious redevelopment projects. Though, as we see from an article in The Atlantic ‘s CityLab this week about the fate ...

A driving tips film featuring late-1950s Plymouths

1958 Plymouth convertible. Still image from Internet Archive video below. In these 1958 Sid Davis productions, Driving Tips Series One and Two, many aspects of driver safety and a few regarding good ...

New documentary hopes to tell the story of America’s first Isle of Man TT winner, Dave Roper

Dave Roper aboard his 350cc 1970 Harley-Davidson ERTT. Photos courtesy Bagamor Media. In 1984, vintage motorcycle racer Dave Roper rode a 1959 Matchless G50 to victory in the Historic 500cc class at ...

Four-Links – Hurst Rescue Gremlin, alternative universe Crosleys, Heilmann, Shark

It took a one-ton truck to replace Murray County Rescue’s Hurst Rescue System 1 Gremlin, one of only a handful that George Hurst built to showcase his Jaws of Life and other assorted rescue equipment...

Four-Links – abandoned Ford, resto for stolen Avanti, Renault’s tank, Eddie Putera

Photo by englemk. Typically after a devastating storm, we’ll see stories about collector cars lost due to a garage collapse. In the case of a 1949 Ford in Richmond, Virginia, however, the recent stor...

“No single form”: How rallying evolved during the 1970s

Many people will point to the Eighties as the glory years for rallying with the advent of four-wheel drive and Group B homologation specials. However, as we saw last weekend, Seventies rallying was n...

Four-Links – Ballot built, joystick Saab, Seventies staples, students restore cop car

It’s a good bet that the 1921 Ballot straight-eight that John Ballard Engineering recently assembled for a customer may be the last time anybody will take on such a project. Fortunately, Ballard docu...

Volvo P1800 stylist remembers “The Saint,” actor Roger Moore

Images and video are courtesy of Volvo Cars. “I designed the Volvo P1800, Roger Moore made it famous.” Pelle Petterson, son of Volvo executive Helmer Petterson, had only recently finished his educati...

“The largest aggregation of motor vehicles ever started on a trip of such length:” Coast to coast with the U.S. Army in 1919

Any student of the U.S. Interstate Highway System can tell you that the seeds for that network of roads were planted in the summer of 1919, when Dwight Eisenhower participated in a U.S. Army Motor Tr...

Four-Links – underwater Pinto, bookmobiles, off-road RV, classic car code

We’re only linking to this Detroit Free Press article about a Pinto at the bottom of Lake Michigan for the “mussel car” pun. * Anybody interested about the general history of bookmobiles after readin...

What’s under your hood?

Still image captured from public domain film hosted on the Internet Archive. This educational film employs various teaching aids such as animation, component cutaways, exploded views, working transpa...

Four-Links – Euro V-8s, rebuilding Ford V-8s, flathead V-8 evolution, Toyota V-8 in a Datsun

If, when thinking about V-8s, your mind turns to rumbly American machines, John Simister over on Goodwood’s blog would like you to consider the many V-8s built by British, French, German, Italian, an...

Four-Links – motorcycle bicentennial, Bessie B. Stringfield, Helene Rother, buried Daimler

Did we just miss the 200th anniversary of the first motorcycle? Over at the Vintagent, Paul d’Orleans presents us with possible evidence for a steam-powered Vélocipédraisiavaporianna, reportedly buil...

Driving Line Driver Battles: EF Civic vs. 325i E30 BMW

In the 90s and early 2000s, the car world was defined by shootouts. The newsstands were littered with sports car comparison challenges and marques fought their place in the "Top 5" rankings of each y...

Four-Links: Dodge Mirada memories, building a desktop Porsche flat-six, Ferris vs. Ferrari, the Mallard that really flew

Like the platypus, the Dodge Mirada went down an evolutionary path not shared with others. It may have blended into the scenery back in the early 1980s, but in today’s jelly-bean-sedan world, the Mir...

A place of community: The story of Ionia Manufacturing

We’ve already taken a brief look at Ionia Manufacturing, the station wagon body supplier based in Ionia, Michigan, for the Mitchell Car Museum liquidation, but this video from Vantage Point Visual pr...

Four-Links – L.A. street racing, Packardbaker podcast, Beach Boys Moke, gas station signs

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...

Das Ziel – A Film by Kris Clewell and Alex Nelson

Just over six months ago, Kris Clewell and Alex Nelson set out on the trip of a lifetime. Following the shipment of Kris's 1972 Porsche 911 from Minnesota to the StanceWorks HQ here in Southern Calif...

The 1959 Oldsmobiles even appealed to young Space Cadets

Still image from video below. In this vintage television ad, two young boys wearing space helmets experience from the backseat of their parents’ new Ninety-Eight what the redesigned ’59 Oldsmobile ha...

Four-Links – women of trucking, Gut Terk, Frank Fox, snow plowing

This week, The Women of Trucking blog took a look back at the pioneers who fought their way into the male-dominated industry, going as far back as Luella Bates (pictured above) and Lillie Elizabeth M...

Four-Links – Dante Giacosa, LOC dealerships, Johnson-Oldfield, night paintings

Issigonis’s Mini certainly contributed to the development of front-wheel drive, but the true father of today’s transverse-engine front-wheel-drive layout, as Neil Briscoe at Influx argues, is Dante G...

The Meyers Manx ‘really is an attitude or a state of mind as well as a vehicle’

Few times in history did somebody perfectly capture a time and a place with a simple auto design as succinctly as Bruce Meyers did with the Meyers Manx dune buggy. It’s been flung across the globe, c...

Four-Links – Airstream appeal, DPL flood, Jeep speed, Willys 99

What exactly makes the Airstream so popular to this day? To answer that question, the National Trust for Historic Preservation spoke with Airstream restorer Matthew Hoffman about the aluminum-clad ca...

From The Reels – Journeymen – The Past Restored

In 2015, a group of friends formed what they call a "like-minded enthusiast collective" in Cape Town, South Africa. Calling their collective Journeymen, they've set out to create a home-away -from-ho...

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