I plan to expand on this notion in a future column in Hemmings Motor News, but the other day I defended my attraction to oddball cars not necessarily as an appreciation of the aesthetics and the ideas expressed in those cars, rather as an appreciation of the philosophy inherent in them, the rejection of the […]

With certain cars, you know at a glance the target audience that the automaker had in mind, even moreso nowadays, with automakers scrambling to define and fill every segment under the sun. In the 1960s, with just a few lines of cars in each automaker’s repertoire, it took some creative option and bodystyle combinations to […]

Van Order collection photos courtesy of Smithsonian magazine If you get an opportunity, pick up a copy of the April 2011 issue of Smithsonian magazine. In it, you will find an interesting article, “The Early, Deadly Days of Motorcycle Racing,” by David Schonauer, about board-track racing enthusiast and photographer Ashley Franklin Van Order. Van Order […]