Oh look, it’s EcoMotors International, some new greenie-car startup company with a “revolutionary” engine design. I bet it’ll save all the polar bears while running on a blend of hemp oil, wildflowers and moonbeams. Ha! Just what flavor of hippie vegetarian baloney is this? And what automotive genius is running this company? Let me guess: […]
If nobody else, Clessie Cummins had proved to Americans the viability of the diesel engine. Familiar with the Indianapolis 500 since crewing for Ray Harroun in the first such race in 1911, he returned in 1931 with a Duesenberg-built, diesel-powered race car that finished 13th, but managed to not only run the entire race without […]
Cripes, didn’t we just do one of these year-end most-popular blog post roundups for 2009? And now we’ve reached the end of another year, creeping up on 4,500 total posts. This last twelvemonth was actually a pretty big one around these parts: We redesigned the blog earlier this year, we added the famous Mike Bumbeck […]