* As the Corvette Blog and Jalopnik reported this week, Thursday was the 50th anniversary of Alan Shepard’s spaceflight. To commemorate the event, about 30 surviving astronauts will gather in Florida today for a parade, and they will be driven in at least one Corvette from each generation of the model to celebrate the long-standing […]
Shortly after Polaris announced the recent purchase of the Indian Motorcycle brand name, they issued another press release announcing they would be moving production of Indians to one of their own facilities in Spirit Lake, Iowa. The previous manufacturer, Indian Motorcycles Limited, had been building the bikes in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. While this comes […]
Amid all the celebrations of Mercedes-Benz’s 125th anniversary this year, it’s worth keeping in mind that Daimler and Benz were not the inventors of the automobile. Inventors of the internal combustion automobile perhaps, but the automobile’s history well precedes 1886, as we see from this unassuming piece of property in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, for sale […]