*From Telstar Logistics comes a post with news that filming for a movie based on Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” was taking place in San Francisco this past week, and that a few streets of SF were lined with all sorts of immediate pre- and post-war cars. Looks like I’ll have to move that book […]

Charles M. “Chuck” Jordan, retired General Motors Vice President of Design, has died at age 83. A California native, Chuck Jordan won the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild model car competition, and was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering. He soon joined the GM Styling Staff […]

Of the many unusual and innovative vehicles on display at the first Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in 1973 in Ann Arbor, Michigan,it appeared that just three were functional enough to provide rides around the parking lot for the besuited attendees. While two of those three came from General Motors, the third, the […]