Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Pontiac OHC

As a dedicated fan of inline-sixes, it always burns me just a little bit to see one get yanked due to the “just stick a V-8 in it” mentality, but the fact that the sellers of this 1967 Pontiac OHC six-cylinder decided to sell the engine rather than just send it off to the scrapyard […]

Duesenberg drag races!

Above is how we normally see Duesenbergs nowadays – sitting on the grass at concours events, swarmed with people. Which is fine – I don’t think there’s a person out there who doesn’t think of Duesenbergs as some of the most beautiful vehicles ever built in America, and the chance to study them up close […]

Nikola Tesla’s pound-per-horsepower engine

While researching the recent post on the Edison-Ford electric car of 1914, it was impossible to avoid coming across references to Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison’s rival and one-time employee, and the story of Tesla’s own electric car, a Pierce-Arrow that supposedly ran on wireless electricity.
Researching that story turned into a hair-pulling exercise that dead-ended all […]