Fiberglass fun in SoCal

Our friend Geoff Hacker has been living it up in the Los Angeles area the last few days, in part to help celebrate Fiberglass Day at the Petersen Automotive Museum, an event that Geoff helped plan to showcase what creative gearheads were doing with fiberglass in the 1950s and 1960s. Though Fiberglass Day has passed, […]

Six Degrees of Automotive Separation – Pegaso

At the mere mention of Pegaso in yesterday’s blog post, I’m sure many of you turned to your favorite reference books to fill in some of the blanks that Maxwell Innes left in his too-short article on the marque’s sports cars. For example, what’s up with the transmission behind the rear axle? And why in […]

Amazing Pegaso

It’s always a shock to see somebody other than Tom McCahill writing about cars for Mechanix Illustrated (Frederick C. Russell, the writer of the Car Care Clinic, seemed confined to the back third of the book every issue), but in the June 1953 issue, we came across this brief Maxwell Innes article on Pegaso’s sports […]