Racing Heroes – Barney Oldfield

Barney Oldfield and Henry Ford. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. In the modern age of racing, a handful of drivers have achieved “household name” status, including Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt, Dan Gurney and Dale Earnhardt. At the dawn of the sport, however, bravado behind the wheel of an automobile made Read more

Return to the Rotunda

While researching the story on the Early Ford V-8 Foundation’s planned replica of the Ford Rotunda, we wondered how much history of the Rotunda to actually include in the story – after all, it had a pretty remarkable 28-year existence and was extensively documented from start to beginning. Then we Read more

Maryland, 1953

Community potluck? Company picnic? Just another day in the park? We’re not quite sure what brought these folks together in this photo we came across over on Photos from the 1950s on Flickr, or where exactly the scene took place, but from the license plates we can at least pin Read more