The model-building hobby has lost another of its forefathers. Robert Reder, co-creator of Monogram Models, has died. He was 93. Starting in 1935, Reder was a designer and draftsman at Comet Model Airplane & Supply Co. in Chicago. During World War II, he worked with the Navy to develop a national program for building identification […]

The corridor between Interstates 78 and 80 now funnels a lot of New York commuters to western New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania. A lot of racing cars used to go banging along the original two-lane highways en route to clashing on carved-out circles in the great valley where New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania meet. […]

Ford’s GPA might have done well in the Detroit River, but when it went into service during World War II, it proved less than capable in the field. Cumbersome and unwieldy on both land and water, the so-called Seep’s production run ended early, after just 12,778 of them emerged from River Rouge. Those that didn’t […]