Things are gonna be a little quiet around here the next few days, so we’ll leave you with a traditional Upper Midwestern Christmas carol by Da Yoopers that I find hard to believe we’ve yet to post here. (IGA reference FTW!) Happy Holidays!…
Every car guy knows Le Mans, its history and its traditions, but how many of them actually know the Circuit de la Sarthe? And how many of them know the many configurations of the track over the years? Fortunately, we recently came across this first-person, driver-narrated video of Mike Hawthorne running a Jaguar over the […]
Hey, a piece of auto-related pop culture ephemera that didn’t come from diskojoe! From back in the early days of Saturday Night Live (Season 1, Episode 10, 1975) comes “Mechanics Bedtime Story,” a skit featuring Dan Akroyd as a somewhat believable mechanic. Akroyd’s played quite a few characters heavily involved with old American iron: He […]