Show Season Spotlight: Marin Sonoma Concours

Organizers of the Marin Sonoma Concours d’Elegance have been busy amassing a number of entries for their third annual event, which will include special classes for Stutz, Rolls-Royce and wooden runabouts; a British car club gathering, and a group of Chevrolets in celebration of the marque’s centennial. Also in the spotlight will be the Vintage […]

Four-Links – Stanford studies the automobile, mystery Crosley, Meteor, Thompson/Glasscock Special

* This’ll make you want to go back to college: Stanford University will offer a new program studying the automobile in all its cultural, archaeological, aesthetic, technological and social aspects, starting with a symposium held this past week focusing on a 1933 4-1/4-Litre Bentley. * Over at ForgottenFiberglass, Geoff’s tackling the mystery of this fiberglass-bodied […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1912 Autocar Type XXI Omnibus

According to our reference books, the Autocar Type XXI, rated at two tons, rode a 97-inch wheelbase and took its power from an 18.1hp opposed two-cylinder engine with a three-speed transmission and, uncommon for a solid-tired truck from this age, shaft drive. For that reason, we say that this 1912 Autocar Type XXI omnibus for […]