Inspired by Jim Donnelly’s recent profile of Chrysler turbine pioneer George Huebner in the October 2010 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, Dave Collins thought we’d like to know about a very unique turbine-powered vehicle he personally had some experience with: a 1961 American-LaFrance pumper truck. Dave recalls that it was one of three that American-LaFrance […]
Any land-speed racing historian worth his salt (get it? salt? haha!) can tell you how organized drag racing evolved out of dry lakes racing, when two or more cars would venture out side-by-side, rather than in turn, as land-speeders do today. In the aftermath of the hotly contested battles for the ultimate land-speed record, Gary […]
I came upon a communication from an interested reader that I had put aside for a while. A long while, actually. Nearly five years before I realized that I had it. We received a packet of photos from Richard E. Prizer, of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, filling us in on the creation of his 1915 American La […]