Traco Engineering may not have ever been a household name – Jim Travers and Frank Coon seemed to prefer working behind the scenes, building engines for major race teams rather than for the general public. Still, they’re a significant duo Read more
Where in part 1 of his story, Roy Ames outlined the various small-potatoes, back-of-the-magazine ways in which hucksters tried to sell fuel-saving devices, in part 2, from SIA #65, October 1981, Ames goes after the more well-known fuel-saving schemes, including Read more
* I could pull Mack military trucks from Crismon all day long, but for those of you with such an interest, BigLorryBlog has already done some legwork, and not just on Macks built for the U.S. Military, such as the Read more
Yes, another Power Wagon, but this one’s a little different. Where the previous one used a civilian Power Wagon body atop a military Dodge chassis, this Dodge Power Wagon advertised on Hemmings.com goes the other way around, placing a military Read more
We tried this variation a few weeks ago with Carroll Shelby and Dick Teague, so let’s try it again, this time with another couple of automotive personalities you should all be familiar with – Andy Granatelli and John DeLorean. Neither Read more
Where, in stock form, the bugeye Sprite is hardly peppy enough and the Miata has the spirit but not the charm of an old British sports car, combining the two seems the most logical thing to do. Thus, we applaud Read more
While we were in Long Beach, waiting for our ship to come in, we strolled past the city’s convention center where we came upon some sort of comic-con, or more accurately, a set of TV and movie cars helping to Read more
From the same Yardley, Pennsylvania, based seller of the 1943 White from the other day comes this 1944 Ford M20. This one I had to look up in Crismon, where I see that the M20 was also designated the T26 Read more
While most of the rest of the Hemmings staff who took the latest Hemmings cruise to the Mexican Riviera spent a couple days prior to the cruise bopping around Los Angeles, taking in museums and seeing the sights, Heather and Read more
The writers for RM are usually great about filling us in on the details of the cars they auction off, but the story behind this 1948 Mercury ute is rather thin. Over on the RM Fort Lauderdale site we see Read more