Lewis Strang in a Thomas at the French Grand Prix, 1908
Many men participated in the dawn of organized motor racing in the US, and many lived hard and died young. Lewis P. Strang stands shoulder to shoulder with Louis Disbrow, Barney Oldham, Ralph De Palma, David Bruce-Brown, Louis Chevrolet and other titans of the era, […]

Freestone & Webb is not a household name in America, even among cognoscenti, but in England, the London-based coachbuilding firm is of some renown. Most of their output–as many as 15 cars a year at their peak–was on Bentley and Rolls-Royce chassis, and they were stalwarts at the London Motor Show, where they won their private […]

While out of professional courtesy we’ve had an informal moratorium on reporting on the decline and fall of Kruse Auctions over the last two years, internally, we’ve had a Death Watch running. That clock hit zero hour on Wednesday, when Dean Kruse told the DeKalb Star the Kruse International name was for sale. “We have […]