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1978 Transitron Mk II prototype. Photos courtesy RM Auctions. Industrial designer Brooks Stevens may be best known for his automotive designs, but his pen also sketched ideas for bicycles, tricycles and motorcycles. Exactly how much involvement Stevens had with the 1978 Transitron Mk II electric motorcycle remains unclear, but the Read more
Though it’s been getting plenty of media coverage, the sinkhole under the National Corvette Museum that damaged eight cars last month isn’t anywhere close to the worst single automotive disaster in history, not when hundreds of show cars went up in flames 85 years ago today at the Los Angeles Read more
Or so goes the opinion of Martin Wainwright, an author who has written about the Morris Minor, the cheery little British car that sold more than a million copies, the vast majority of them in the United Kingdom. There’s certainly no shortage of enthusiasm for the the dead-simple and stone-cheap Read more
The 1962 Corvette is lifted from the National Corvette Museum sinkhole. Photos and videos courtesy of the National Corvette Museum. After successfully retrieving the 2009 ZR1 “Blue Devil” and the 1993 40th Anniversary edition earlier this week, recovery efforts at the National Corvette Museum turned toward pulling the 1962 Corvette Read more
With all the landscape changes that have occurred in downtown Los Angeles over the last half century, it’s kinda difficult to tell exactly where this late 1950s or early 1960s photo was taken. We know from the USC Libraries description that it’s of the 110, aka the Harbor Freeway, looking Read more
While this 1973 BMW 2000Tii Touring for sale on Hemmings.com looks to be in remarkable shape, wears an eye-blistering shade of Inka Orange, and is a bodystyle rarely seen here in the United States (and thus much in demand), what really drew us to it was the great photography, which Read more
A Cheetah at Salon Retromobile in 2009. Photo by Mikael Restoux. In 1964, Chevrolet was officially out of racing, thanks to a General Motors ban on participation in motorsports. Unofficially, the bowtie division kept its fingers in a few low-key projects, including one that promised to give Carroll Shelby’s Ford-powered Read more
Don Nicholson in 1968. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company. “Dyno” Don Nicholson is best remembered for his dominant performance in match racing and in the NHRA’s Pro Stock class, but Nicholson was one of the most versatile competitors drag racing has ever seen. With a background that included oval track Read more
With Carroll Shelby heading up Ford’s efforts for the 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans, an entire fleet of Ford-powered cars descended on the French countryside that year. Of the 51 total entrants, 11 were GT40s – both Mk I and Mk II variants – or Cobra Daytonas. One of Read more
The last time we dug through the UNLV Digital Libraries photo archive, we came across a nice color photo of the front of the old Flamingo, and today we see another photo of the same facade and parking lot, taken at about the same time, maybe a year or two Read more