Nobody will ever know, exactly, just how much wild and creative stuff went on inside Smokey Yunick’s garage, mechanical and otherwise. Yunick can’t tell us, other than through his outrageous autobiography, because he died in 2001. Now, the original Smokey’s Garage is gone, reduced to rubble on Monday night after a fire of undetermined origin. […]
No, that’s not a typo. We checked, and the number is real: The Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation announced Tuesday that the Museum Foundation has received a gift of approximately $100,000,000 from Margie Petersen and the Margie & Robert E. Petersen Foundation. According to the press release, This donation is comprised of a substantial unrestricted financial […]
We all have cars we’re unreasonably in love with, and I’m not alone in having my buttons pushed by the original Hupmobile, the 1909 Model 20. I don’t recall where I came across this February 1965 sketch by Dick Teague, but the designer owned a number of Brass Era cars, and his love is evident […]