No front fender, no shirt and an open-face helmet – that’s how Steve McQueen rolled on the August 23, 1971, cover of Sports Illustrated, wheelie-ing the legendary Husqvarna 400 Cross. On Any Sunday, Malcom Smith and, of course, McQueen did for the red-tanked Swedish-built Huskys here in the U.S. what Rebel Without a Cause did […]
I first met Paul Howard in, I think, 2005, when he and a couple other hot rodders stopped by Hemmings HQ on their way back from the Rolling Bones open house to his house in Massachusetts. He noted me ogling his Model A with a flathead V-8, sitting tall, black, and fenderless, clean and straight, […]
Word comes to us, very sadly, that sports car raconteur and all-around good guy Toly Arutunoff was terribly injured while en route to the Sports Car Club of America convention in Las Vegas. Full details haven’t emerged yet, but Toly, a glowing personality in the SCCA’s history, was apparently helping a stranded motorist during a […]