Looking for memories of Palm Springs

We’ve featured Art Evans in the Hemmings print and cyber-pages a bunch of times. He’s a documenter, a ranked historian, of the early road-racing scene in Southern California; the author of retrospectives on Torrey Pines, Pebble Beach and other early locales. He’s now looking for your help on a new project. He hopes to eventually […]

Truck farming the Dixie way

What’s a Currituck? It’s the name of a county at the extreme northeastern corner of North Carolina, divided by a sound that separates the mainland and county seat from the northern reaches of the Outer Banks. Its rich, moist soil is ideal for growing truck crops, to use the name we all learned in grade-school […]

TV Tommy Ivo: From child star to drag racing showman

What a life. TV Tommy Ivo went from youth actor in the early television age (Margie, starring Cynthia Pepper, although Tommy’s even earlier cinema co-stars included Boris Karloff and Jerry Lewis) to an unstoppably wild drag-strip entertainer, an actor almost cyborg-melded with a race car. It was, therefore, perhaps inevitable that TV Tommy was going […]