Photo courtesy Don Emde Don Emde, winner of the 1972 Daytona 200, has announced a new multi-year project that will retrace the record-setting 3,378-mile, 11-1/2-day route completed by Cannonball Baker in 1914. The historic feat shaved almost nine days off the existing record at a time when there were few highways west of the Mississippi, […]

Chevrolet has slapped up a Facebook page devoted to gauging support for the (unlikely) return of the El Camino. The page’s best feature is the all-too-brief photo gallery that reminded me how I would like to own a ’59 or a ’60 El Camino before I get hauled off to the nursing home, mainly so […]

Van Order collection photos courtesy of Smithsonian magazine If you get an opportunity, pick up a copy of the April 2011 issue of Smithsonian magazine. In it, you will find an interesting article, “The Early, Deadly Days of Motorcycle Racing,” by David Schonauer, about board-track racing enthusiast and photographer Ashley Franklin Van Order. Van Order […]