Enduring Automotive History Myths, No. 467 and 467a: Electric cars, while popular around the dawn of the automotive age, were quickly abandoned when the invention of the electric self-starter prompted the widespread adoption of internal combustion. They have only been recently reconsidered as a viable means of transportation. Gasoline-electric hybrids were similarly abandoned after Dr. […]
There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about recapturing the ethos of making things, of fixing things, partially out of thrift, partially out of a desire to make sure we own our stuff, not the other way around. One quick look at Curtis Gregory Perry’s photo of a Dodge A-100 van left neglected, […]
1940 Packard Darrin. Photograph courtesy Glenmoor Gathering. The annual Glenmoor Gathering in Canton, Ohio, has a longstanding tradition of featuring the cars attributed to a famed automotive designer every year, and for 2011, that tradition continues with the cars of Howard “Dutch” Darrin. For such an exalted automotive designer, Darrin seemed to have entered the […]