Legend and Champions Weekend is here already, with the three-day event kicking off this Friday with AMA’s Hall of Fame Banquet. This year’s inductees include Eyvind Boyesen, the Norwegian NASA engineer who pioneered reed induction for two-stroke motorcycles and founded Boyesen Engineering. Also Larry Coleman, a racer who won many sidecar races and championships in […]
Herb Miska, whose incredible scratchbuilt models inspired the recent posts on the scratchbuilt Pierce-Arrow dump truck and MacDonald low-loader, recently emailed us with a request. See, he’s been working on a 1/18th model of the 1914 Mercedes Grand Prix racer, but has hit a brick wall in his research on the car: He has yet […]
Back in the days when it took giant brass ones, a truckload of skill and more than a hearty helping of luck to race behemoth thoroughbreds on primitive tracks on waif-thin tires, Earl Cooper and his No. 8 Stutz dominated West Coast racing, both with and without factory backing. Fortunately, as of SIA #82, August […]