Plenty of automobile books are published every year, but it’s too bad 90 percent of them are nothing more than a rehash of the same old muscle car, Ferrari or Porsche content. There are other automotive subjects to write about, as proven by this worthwhile book about Australian-built Buicks. This book takes an in-depth look […]

I mentioned just after the New Year that Tim Dye‘s long-awaited Pontiac-Oakland Museum and Resource Center (POMARC) had been approved and was going ahead; last month he started packing up a small fleet of tractor-trailers with materials (and cars) for the long drive from Oklahoma to Pontiac, Illinois (on Route 66; Pontiac, Michigan, was not […]

In the world of rally racing, the East African Safary Rally has long been considered one of the most brutal events. Conceived in early 1953 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (and thus its original name, the Coronation Rally), it took cars through three countries – Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania – in a […]