“Keep straight on. Let the road look after itself.”

Last week we took a look at “Sorcerer,” and this week, BigLorryBlog turned us on to another truckin’ film, Cy Endfield’s “Hell Drivers” from 1957. What at first seems to be typical mid-1950s B-movie fare actually has plenty of good reviews, based more on the plot (ex-con takes a job at a corrupt trucking firm […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – Oleg Cassini AMC Matador

We know what you’re thinking. Another Matador? What on earth did the husband of Gene Tierney and official designer for first lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s wardrobe have to do with this mighty 1974 AMC Matador? Everything. Cassini lent a further touch of class to the already elegant Matador. The designer Matador was a pre-emptive strike against […]

Truck farming the Dixie way

What’s a Currituck? It’s the name of a county at the extreme northeastern corner of North Carolina, divided by a sound that separates the mainland and county seat from the northern reaches of the Outer Banks. Its rich, moist soil is ideal for growing truck crops, to use the name we all learned in grade-school […]