Ab Jenkins, American hero

It may be a little imprecise to call Ab Jenkins an unknown American hero. After all, it’s safe to assume that most car guys know of Ab, his son Marv, and the various Mormon Meteors they used to break speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Still, few people – including non-Utahns and the general […]

Colonel Green and his Stearns-Knight hybrid

As we mentioned last week, gasoline-electric hybrid cars are not a new invention, nor were they something that was only tried once at the outset of the automotive age before being revived again a century later. GM had its own hybrids in the 1960s, the XP512H and the XP833, and as Tim Martin from The […]

Four-Links – Google travels the Mille Miglia, the missing “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry” Charger, Aaron Beck’s E-bodies, Henry Ford’s missing punchbowl

* Google’s done some cool car-related things with Google Street View, and as reader John Burtner showed us recently, one of their Street View cars apparently followed along with the 2009 Mille Miglia. * What happened to the ’69 Charger R/T that was in “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry?” StreetLegalTV is on the case. * While […]