Laconia Bike Week kicked off Sunday for its 86th year. Festivities began with the Vintage Motorcycle Races at New Hampshire Speedway on Sunday with hundreds of events scheduled for the entire week through Father’s Day, June 21st. Laconia Bike Week Read more…
From left: Vern Sion, Mel Keys, Volmer Jensen (owner of the Production Models Shop) You’d have to be a real Trekker to know that the original Enterprise (”No bloody A, B, C, or D!”) model, the 11-footer used for shots Read more…
So the news came down last night that the House of Representatives passed Betty Sutton’s H.R.2640, the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act, which we know better as one of the several cash for clunkers bills making their way Read more…
Add this to the many ways we already witnessed connections between Renault and Rambler/American Motors. Of course, the former bought the latter in the 1980s, and Rambler provided the bodies for the IKA venture between Kaiser and Renault in Argentina, Read more…
Good news, everybody! You’ve known for a while now that you can upload a video along with your online classified with Hemmings to help sell your car, but now you can also upload your videos of your cars just to Read more…
While researching Frank Kurtis’s life for an upcoming Hot Rod Hero article in Hemmings Muscle Machines, Donnelly lent me Gordon Eliot White’s book, “Kurtis-Kraft: Masterworks of Speed and Style,” which detailed Kurtis’s life and achievements. Of course, what interested me Read more…
Multiple layers of paint, blotches of rust, spotty primer, dry-rot tires and fogged glass. Must be a “barn find.” Permanently chained down to a trailer at a swap meet, to boot. Fall Carlisle, to be exact, back in 2007. According Read more…
I spent a good part of the weekend, and nearly all of my day off Monday, getting bits and pieces of the Rover reassembled. I had rebuilt the carburetors months ago, but that’s only half the battle – I also Read more…
We (okay, Dave LaChance) actually wrote about this one three years ago, but I neglected to ask Dave the exact location and subsequently let it slip my mind. No need to ask him now, thanks to reader Gene Herman of Read more…
When discussing GM’s bankruptcy yesterday, Obama again mentioned that he wants to have a cash for clunkers program (though he used the pseudonym “fleet modernization program”) in place soon to help GM through their bankruptcy. So the Senate seems to Read more…