From last week’s experimental V-5 diesel at the Olds Museum in Lansing, Michigan, we move on to another group of experimental engines at the same museum, though built for a much more different purpose. In SIA #76, August 1983, Dennis Casteele gave us a glimpse of three high-performance Oldsmobile V-8s – a Hemi-headed design, a […]
For a while after we looked up the history of Stirling-engined AMCs last year, we followed several leads looking for the actual cars used for those tests, but to no avail. Fortunately, John Corey, who worked on the team that studied automotive Stirling engines for NASA, recently came across that post and in the ensuing […]
* From Automobiliac comes this excellent photo of Alfonso De Portago in a Ferrari on the 1957 Mille Miglia. The color, the composition, the setting, the excitement on the spectators’ faces all give it that wonderful air of nostalgia. Then you read about the photo’s significance…
* Dean Moon’s iconic status in the hot rod and […]