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Chris Tray and Mike Nixon. Photos and images courtesy Don Keefe. [Editor’s Note: We’ve been in touch recently with Don Keefe, editor of the Pontiac-Oakland Club International‘s Smoke Signals magazine, regarding Mike Nixon, a fellow Pontiac enthusiast recently diagnosed with cancer. Don submitted this report to let us know how Read more
Photos courtesy Art Krieger. There are more comfortable ways to see this vast country of ours than by motorcycle, for sure. But when you’re 18 and you’ve got nothing to keep you tied to one place and when your cousin has a 1947 Harley, why not take that adventure? Or Read more
High school parking lots always seem to take on a different flavor from regular everyday parking lots: plenty more cheap cars, plenty more beaters, and plenty more unusual vehicles. They’re still fascinating snapshots in time, though whether they accurately encapsulated what was commonplace on the road at the time is Read more
Now that we’re finally clear of winter (or at least holding our breath that we don’t get walloped by a Nor’easter any time soon), let’s look forward to next winter, shall we? (So he says while ducking snowballs made from the leftover ice and slush still on the ground…) Y’gotta Read more
Richard Petty’s Plymouth Belvedere. Photo by David Berkowitz. Though currently enshrined in the Richard Petty Museum, the Belvedere that King Richard drove to earn that nickname and set records on his way to his second championship in 1967 will once again pound pavement – with Petty at the wheel, no Read more
Jim Jeffords in his racing days. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. Over the course of his six-decade career, Jim Jeffords contributed much to motorsports in America in a number of different roles, including SCCA National Championship-winning driver, Trans-Am team manager, and vice president of Road America. In fact, he still Read more
The restored Dymaxion #2 returns to the National Automobile Museum. Photo courtesy National Automobile Museum. Architect and visionary Buckminster Fuller had a dream of creating a better world, one in which quality housing was affordable to all, and transportation was safe and efficient. Though his Dymaxion concept (a portmanteau of Read more
B-24 bombers are big planes: 68 feet long, 110-foot wingspan, and and loaded weight of 55,000 pounds. It took four 1,200hp turbosupercharged Pratt and Whitney radials to power them, and it took the largest industrial building under a single roof – the Willow Run bomber plant outside Ypsilanti, Michigan – Read more
Shortly after posting yesterday’s carspotting photo from Seattle, we came across yet another Boeing employee parking lot photo from 1959, this time on Mopar Blog. Again, no indication of the exact location here, and this arrangement leads us to wonder how those folks parked on the right side of the Read more
You’ve no doubt heard of the Gurney bubble, a blister installed in the roof of a GT40 to accommodate Dan Gurney’s height; well, this 1954 Lester MG for sale on Hemmings.com has that beat, with an entire roofline bumped up to accommodate its original owner’s height. A former museum car Read more