For all the streamliners and teardroppers sketched out, put into clay and prototyped, very few successfully became the car of the future that they claimed to be. But they sure made for excellent copy for the newspapers and mechanics magazines of the day, and David Greenlees recently came across a small treasure trove of streamliners […]
It’s hard to believe, but Mark Donohue, potentially the greatest American racing driver ever, has been gone for 35 years now. He died shortly after crashing in practice for the 1975 Austrian Grand Prix, in a Formula 1 car owned by his mentor, Roger Penske. As Penske star Helio Castroneves tries to become a four-time […]
Seventy-two years ago today, you could, given half a mind, drive up to the front entrance of the White House in your 1921 Model T, and baffle Capitol Police by demanding to see Henry Ford. “Where’s Henry?” shouted Ernest A. Franke, a 90-year-old retired baker, from the driver’s seat. “I want to show him his […]