Vermont Country Store, 1955

Photo by Reuben Greene, courtesy northbennington.org Last couple of photos from the collection of Reuben Greene, and everybody give a hand to Rob Woolmington and the Fund for North Bennington for sharing Mr. Greene’s photos with us. As Rob wrote, “I agree with your comment that in some of his photos the cars are just […]

Colonel Green and his Stearns-Knight hybrid

As we mentioned last week, gasoline-electric hybrid cars are not a new invention, nor were they something that was only tried once at the outset of the automotive age before being revived again a century later. GM had its own hybrids in the 1960s, the XP512H and the XP833, and as Tim Martin from The […]

Auction Pulse: Why we love Duesenbergs

There are a lot of reasons to love Duesenbergs: the amazing engineering, the breathtaking bodies, the incomparable feeling behind the wheel. But the thing that makes some of us just go nuts is the history. I don’t mean the Fred-and-Augie history; rather, it’s the wonderful, unlikely and often conflicting stories that seem to accrete around […]