Image courtesy oldcarbrochures.com Part of the fun of our Class of 1986 series has been identifying the new-for-1986 vehicles now considered classics, based on the rolling 25-year guideline – or, alternately, the vehicles with production runs ending that year. Doing so pulls into perfect clarity just how a quarter-century can distort our sense of time, […]

David Greenlees over at The Old Motor recently posted this photo of a pair of eight-wheeled trucks – one apparently a school bus, the other a stakeside – and wondered aloud who built them and why. I think we have an answer. When David mentioned that the photo was possibly taken in San Francisco, I […]

Through the Hemmings Forum, we recently heard from the folks at King Arthur Flour in Norwich, Vermont, regarding the calliope truck that used to promote the flour in New York City and in Boston in the late 1920s. Featuring a wooden carving of King Arthur atop his horse and carrying a banner (a later version […]