And I left my lightsaber at home…

While we were in Long Beach, waiting for our ship to come in, we strolled past the city’s convention center where we came upon some sort of comic-con, or more accurately, a set of TV and movie cars helping to promote the comic-con. I’d seen the Obi-Shawn Del Sol around the Internet before, so it […]

Resilience

For the current issue of Hemmings Motor News, I wrote up a little introduction to the resilient wheel, a self-sprung technology that enjoyed not very much popularity in the decades before World War II.  But for an idea that essentially no one used, quite a few people wrote in to comment.
I’d never actually seen a […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1944 Ford M20

From the same Yardley, Pennsylvania, based seller of the 1943 White from the other day comes this 1944 Ford M20. This one I had to look up in Crismon, where I see that the M20 was also designated the T26 and was based on the Ford T22 Armored Car. The difference between the two is […]