If the 50th anniversary of the nation’s first automobile smog bill hasn’t been overly memorialized, well, we’re not surprised. Between emissions regulations, safety oversight, insurance premiums and OPEC, the law enacted in April of 1960 was the first, and maybe most important, factor in ushering the almost 20 years of low-performance Seventies and Eighties.
With the […]
The Airline Coupés were arguably the prettiest MGs built in the mid-1930s. It’s believed that just 51 of these streamlined two-seaters, with their flowing fenders, partially integrated spare wheels and sliding sunshine roofs with “cathedral” windows, were built on the P-, N- and prewar T-type chassis chassis with SOHC (OHV in TA) four- and six-cylinder engines. Being coachbuilt […]
Spotted this HAL DOHC engine at last year’s Flathead Jack Gathering of the Faithful hot rod show down in Rochester, Massachusetts, and I wanted to get some photos of it up here before I filed the show photos in my archives. The guys at Willet Coachworks in Malden, Massachusetts, were responsible for the shininess.