Toronto, 1958

While we don’t have the whole story behind these two photos that Shorpy recently posted, we can piece together some bits based on what we see here. About the only context provided with the photos is that they were taken in 1958 somewhere in Ontario. Toronto’s always a good place Read more

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – NASA’s Stirling-powered vehicles, Bulletproof Beauty, postwar Willys Jeeps, Maximum Overdrive

* Unfortunately, this circa 1992 NASA video focusing on the Stirling external-combustion engines that the agency put in a handful of vehicles doesn’t mention the AMC Spirit that received the engine swap, but it does make Stirlings seem like a perfectly reasonable alternative to internal-combusion engines. * Bernhard Bredehorn grew Read more

The 1974 Camaro, from A to Z28

1974 Chevrolet Camaro. Photos courtesy ProductionCars.com. By the 1974 model year, muscle cars were no longer the hot sellers they once were, killed off by rising insurance premiums and emission control requirements that saw performance begin a downward spiral in the early years of the decade. For 1974, Chevrolet wanted Read more